AYA 2024 shortlists: Private Housing Architect of the Year

Earlier this year BD announced all the architects who made it on to the shortlists for our prestigious annual Architect of the Year Awards.

Now we are shining the spotlight on each category in turn and publishing a selection of the images that impressed the judges.

This year’s judges include: Yẹmí Aládérun, head of development, Meridian Water, Enfield Council; Alexandra Andone, associate director, PRP; Amr Assaad, board director, Buckley Gray Yeoman; Lee Bennett, partner, design chair and school lead, Sheppard Robson; Sarah Cary, chief development officer Imperial College, White City Campus; Irene Craik, director, Levitt Bernstein; Alex Ely, founding director, Mae; Martyn Evans, creative director, LandsecU+I; Gavin Hale-Brown, director, Henley Halebrown; Tanvir Hasan, director emeritus, Donald Insall Associates; Lee Higson, board director, Eric Parry Architects; Nigel Hugill, chief executive, Urban & Civic; Kirsten Lees, managing partner, Grimshaw; Oliver Lowrie, director and founder, Ackroyd Lowrie; Anna Mansfield, director, Publica; Michelle McDowell, non-executive director, Civic; Ian McKnight, founding partner, Hall McKnight; John McRae, director and trustee, Orms; David Partridge, chairman, Related Argent; Sarah Robinson, asociate director, The King’s Foundation; Philippa Simpson, director for buildings and renewal, Barbican Centre; Kevin Singh, head, Manchester School of Architecture; Karl Singporewala, founder, Karl Singporewala Design Bureau; Jonathan Smales, founder and CEO, Human Nature; Elizabeth Smith, chairman and regional director, Purcell; Alan Stanton, principal director, Stanton Williams; Amin Taha, chairperson, Groupwork; Magali Thomson, project lead for placemaking, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Tatiana von Preussen, co-founder and director, vPPR; Jo Wright, director, Perkins&Will.

Today’s shortlist is for the category of Private Housing Architect of the Year.

Alison Brooks Architects

The practice embraces residential architecture as ‘civic infrastructure that enables human potential’. In Cambridge, the 186-dwelling Rubicon scheme integrates cycle storage and maintenance facilities into a five-building plan while Knights Park in Eddington will be the UK’s first net zero-carbon neighbourhood (in collaboration with PTE). Two London projects also feature in the entry – Cadence at King’s Cross and One Ashley Road in Tottenham Hale.

Coffey Architects

Coffey’s entry features two later living developments. Cobham Bowers in Surrey created 53 apartments in gabled buildings around a flint-walled garden. The proposed Thrive Living Elstree project includes a sequence of public and semi public spaces such as a village square and events lawn. The submission also includes The Tannery, which creates 100 homes as part of a mixed-use, new build and retrofit development in London’s Southwark.

Gbolade Design Studio

Two London townhouse developments comprise the entry from Gbolade Design Studio. Hermitage Mews in Crystal Palace creates eight, dual and triple-aspect homes designed to net-zero targets. As part of the Grahame Park estate regeneration in Barnet, a proposed development of 14 private townhouses forms a threshold block with a saw-edge profile designed to enhance streetscape character and natural surveillance. Construction is expected to start later this year.

HTA Design LLP

HTA’s entry features projects totalling more than 1700 London homes. College Road near East Croydon station provides 817 co-living studios alongside 120 affordable homes, and at 50 storeys is the world’s tallest modular building. Glassworks Court delivers 354-homes at Greenford Quay while Woodside Park creates 86 affordable homes on a former service yard site in Barnet. HTA has planning consent for Botanical House, a 447 home hotel development in East Croydon.

JTP

JTP’s submission ranges from detached homes to a high-density urban quarter. The Green Quarter in Southall, west London, will deliver 3,750 new homes in a brownfield development projected to complete in 2035. The practice has completed the new neigbourhoods of Woodgate in Pease Pottage (phase 3) and Channels (phases 3,5,6) in Chelmsford, and the first phase of Oaks in a forest setting near Prague.

 

Stolon Studio

The practice advocates ‘sociable architecture’ – an approach that creates and supports communities through innovative typologies with common spaces, common purpose and shared resources. The Parks, an 8-home farm redevelopment in Herefordshire, creates an alternative to the isolated rural home typology while Stables Yard in Beckenham, south east London, is a low carbon flood-resistant scheme providing both private and shared space.

T2S Architecture

The practice describes its architectural style as delivering ‘simple, coherent, diagrammatic buildings’ with legible form and intention. Leaside Road, a canal-side development in north London, creates 35 apartments plus commercial floor space with a central courtyard to draw daylight deep into the plan.

As well as two proposed high street projects in New Malden and Dalston Kingsland, the entry includes the residential redevelopment of a medical centre in Berkhamsted.

TateHindle

Beaulieu Keep, a new neighbourhood at Centenary Way in Chelmsford, incorporates over 30 different house types in five character areas inspired by the local vernacular of barns and farmsteads. Aura in Great Kneighton, Cambridge, delivers 600 homes, of which 40% are affordable. Brownfield developments of Wembley Park Gardens, a 450 home scheme in north London, and the Passivhaus Deben Fields in Felixstowe complete the entry.