Croydon council’s in-house development company has shortlisted six practices in a design competition to deliver a small-site housing project as part of the firm’s next programme of work.

Architecture Doing Place; Gbolade Design Studio; Jas Bhalla Architects; Kristofer Adelaide Architecture; McCloy & Muchemwa; and Nimtim Architects have all secured slots in the next round of the design competition run by Brick By Brick and the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.

The six impressed judges with their responses to the competition brief, which sought “ideas for housing for a better world” from practices with an ethnically diverse workforce.

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