Four housing projects, including an apartment complex in east London and a development for the elderly in Yorkshire, have been shortlisted for RIBA's 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced that A House for Artists by Apparata Architects, New Lodge Community by PRP, Agar Grove Phase 1b by Mae and Taylor Court, Chatto Court and Wilmott Court on the Frampton Park Estate by Henley Halebrown have been shortlisted for the prize.
A House for Artists by Apparata Architects was shortlisted. Photo is by Johan Dehlin
The prize is an annual award that acknowledges leading examples of affordable houses in the United Kingdom. It was created in honour of acclaimed modernist architect and social housing trailblazer Neave Brown following his death in 2018. The 2023 shortlist was selected by a panel of judges that includes Peter Barber Architects director Alice Brownfield, associate director at Maccreanor Lavington Prisca Thielmann and son of Neave Brown and design director at Smith & Brown Aaron Brown.
It is one of four projects shortlisted for the Neave Brown Award for Housing. Photo is by Ståle Eriksen
A House for Artists by Apparata Architects is an apartment complex in Barking, east London that was designed to provide low-cost housing and workspaces for 12 artists and their families.
The building is a five-storey concrete structure with a form that comprises a collection of stacked shapes, volumes and openings. It includes 12...