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The articulated line of the buildings was chiefly influenced by the row of retained mature London plane trees along Abbey Road
2024, provides a similar ratio of affordable homes among its total 386 units, plus a residents’ hub and playground, on a 1.33 hectare site. Again, White Arkitekter has taken care of RIBA Stages 1-3 plus design guardianship during Stages 4-5. There is also to be a West Phase 3, which Haworth Tompkins have been appointed to design. The Gascoigne neighbourhood project is one of London’s largest estate regeneration programmes, providing tenure-blind family-friendly homes in a range of different volumes from towers to townhouses, and an “age-inclusive, climate resilient landscape,” say the architects. The finished development will have around 3000 homes, situated around a “clearly defined hierarchy of public squares, local greens, semi-private gardens and private courtyards to create a safe and welcoming environment for all ages.” Gascoigne West, in the words of White Arkitekter, is “built upon existing amenities to create a development that contributes to its context, with improved connections to the site and surrounding areas.” It maximises White’s simple and rational Scandinavian design approach and public housing experience to bring key benefits including some of those inherent to MMC, as shown on recent major projects in Stockholm. The wide range of skills would all be required to be deployed on the
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east London site to successfully tackle its sensitive and complex requirements. In Phase 1, the architects have cleverly worked with a constrained site. The design responds with articulated forms that provide good quality, efficient indoor and outdoor spaces for future residents of this resurrected estate. Similarly, Phase 2 provides the density required by the client but in a range of buildings that avoids the oppressive nature that characterised the previous Gascoigne Estate. Overall, the scheme represents a high-pressure architectural environment, with a host of factors to balance – not least time, with the client keen to deliver the apartments fast, alongside the spatial quality that the whole team is working towards.
Background & Procurement The Gascoigne Estate was built in the early 1960s and sits between Barking and the A13, being originally composed of 17 high-rise blocks plus three-storey apartment blocks. There were a series of attempts in the early 21st century to try and improve the built environment, however it was eventually accepted that the best solution was to demolish the whole estate and start from scratch – with the Gascoigne East side being tackled first, and Phase 3 of the current West masterplan the final part. Various architectural firms have been
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