Four projects have been shortlisted for the first Neave Brown Award for Housing including a housing estate designed by David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) introduced the prize to honour architect Neave Brown, a pioneer of social housing who died in 2018.
The Colville Estate designed by David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects has been shortlisted alongside Brentford Lock West Keelson Gardens in London by Mae Architects, Eddington Lot 1 in Cambridge, by WilkinsonEyre with Mole Architects, and Goldsmith Street in Norwich by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley.
Eddington Lot 1 is one of the four housing projects up for the prize. Photo by Jack Hobhouse Eddington Lot 1, by WilkinsonEyre with Mole Architects, is part of a new development of 3,000 houses in the Eddington Quarter of Cambridge. It has already won a 2019 RIBA National Award.
The residential units are arranged around a Sainsbury's supermarket and an doctors surgery. Half of the homes in the Eddington Quarter are reserved for workers at the university, which is funding the development, who qualify for subsidised rent.
Goldsmith Street provided 105 homes for the council. Photo by Tim Crocker
"We urgently need to build new homes in the UK," said RIBA President Ben Derbyshire on the Neave Brown Award for Housing.

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