Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
This Passivhaus-standard collection of terraced streets in Norwich is the first council housing project ever to be shortlisted for the Stirling, says George Kafka. Film and photography Jim Stephenson
Abode at Great Kneighton combines clusters of different dwelling types to increase the scheme’s density
The 8,700m² Belle Vue north-London housing for later-living features modulated brickwork on its façade, graduating upwards both in colour and texture
Lacaton & Vassal, with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture, won the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award with their renovation of three blocks of a 1960s slab estate in Bordeaux with the addition of an outer skin of winter gardens, writes Catherine Slessor. Photography Philippe Ruault
Lendager Group’s Resource Rows project in Copenhagen demonstrates a radical recycling approach to materials that significantly cuts construction’s carbon footprint, writes Rob Wilson. It is ‘absolutely the future’, says its client. Photography Mikkel Strange
The six-storey BREEAM Excellent building includes 15 apartments, a shared rooftop terrace and green roofs, with curved corners activating more pedestrian space
The 113-unit scheme for PegasusLife comprises of one and two-bedroom apartments arranged in a contemporary interpretation of Gloucester farmsteads
The scheme for 264 key-worker homes is combined with community and retail facilities around a network of communal courts and spaces
Haworth Tompkins – with Pitman Tozer Architects and Lyndon Goode Architects – is creating a busy working piece of city on a formerly isolated backlands site in east London, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Nick Kane, Rory Gardiner and Fred Howarth
A twin-block development of two-bedroom flats in Ashtree Road, Pollokshaws, is shaped by local history, writes Rory Olcayto. Photography Gillian Hayes
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