Orchard Gardens Elephant Park London, Panter Hudspith Architects Building Development, Architecture Images
Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park
21 July 2022
Design: Panter Hudspith Architects
Orchard Gardens Elephant Park is Stirling Prize Shortlisted
The UK?s most prestigious architecture award is given to the architect of the building thought to be the most significant of the year for the evolution of architecture and the built environment.
The six buildings contending for the coveted 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize have now been revealed:
Stirling Prize
Client: Lendlease
Award: RIBA London Award 2022 and RIBA National Award 2022

photograph © Enrique Verdugo
Comprising 228 homes and 2,500sqm of retail and cultural spaces, Orchard Gardens is an entire city block and major component of Elephant & Castle?s regeneration. Designed to be viewed as a cluster of buildings, it wraps around a sunny communal garden with sophisticated and playful contrasting scales and heights, ranging from five to 19 storeys. The composition of these varying elevations enhances the quality of place-making around the site, creating an approachable neighbourhood, resonant of historic groups of buildings that have developed over time, without appearing contrived.

photo © Timothy Soar
The tallest element is located to north of the scheme, reducing in height to the south where Orchard Gardens borders the Grade-II listed Southwark Town Hall. A colonnade cleverly protrudes, both providing an entrance to the ...