BUILDING PROJECTS


LONG LANE SOUTHWARK, LONDON


Stealth social housing


Teodora Lyubomirova looks at how architects Levitt Bernstein applied care and precision to create a tenure-blind affordable social housing scheme on a space-constrained site in the heart of London


rom a leather trade mecca in the 19th century to a bustling cultural and corporate centre today, Southwark’s transformation could not be more striking. Some of London’s most recognisable new landmarks sit within its boundaries – from the twisted profile of Tate Modern’s Switch House to the Elizabethan era-inspired Shakespeare Globe and the dramatic glass and steel giants looming within the More London commercial development. Take a walk south past the busy construction underway around London Bridge Station, and a peaceful residential area soon emerges. This shift of dynamics is deceptive however, as the noisy develop-


F ADF SEPTEMBER 2017


ment along Long Lane, where ADF is headed to view a new social housing scheme by Levitt Bernstein, is a reminder of Southwark’s borough’s relentless pace of redevelopment. On Long Lane, among a diverse mix of building types and uses, sits one of Southwark Borough Council’s most recent developments. Erected on a council-owned plot which previously accommodated the Borough and Bankside Housing office, the scheme comprises two blocks abutting a new private sale residential corner building which falls outside the development on the junction with Weston Street, with a shared rear courtyard linking both blocks. The


The project was a delicate balance of protecting quality for residents while trying to


maximise new homes Simon Lea, Levitt Bernstein


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