2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing Winner, Shortlist, RIBA Architecture Winners, British Architect
2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing
13 October 2022

Photos: : Nick Kane
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown as the winner of the Neave Brown Award for Housing 2022.
Given in honour of social housing pioneer, Neave Brown (1926-2018), the annual award recognises the UK?s best new affordable housing.
Located on London?s Kingsland Road, this hybrid scheme skilfully combines a community-led school with 68 apartments on a compact urban site. The deliberately dense housing ? which includes 68 rented homes, 50% of which are offered below market rates ? frees up the maximum footprint for the school, whilst also providing a substantial baffle from noise and emissions from the neighbouring busy road.
The development is owned by an affordable housing charity which primarily focuses on housing key workers. 333 Kingsland Road operates a tenure blind arrangement, whereby 50% of apartments are available below the average market rent.
Orientation, natural ventilation and light have been carefully considered and prioritised to create spacious, bright apartments. On each of the main floors, eight homes are clustered around a central octagonal stair. Windows are deliberately large to optimise views across the capital, and ...