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FROM THE EDITOR
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lashback to seven years ago, when RIBA judges gave the Stirling Prize to the fi rst social housing scheme deemed worthy of the leading architectural accolade; the truly groundbreaking Goldsmith Street in Norwich. While Mikhail Riches and Cathy Hawley’s 105-home timber- framed Passivhaus project was largely for social rent, this year’s worthy winner (Lion Green Road in deepest south London – Coulsdon in fact), is a seemingly more pragmatic mix of affordable and private dwellings.
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diffi cult sloping site that drops by 8 metres from back to front. Mary Duggan Architects’ scheme design (RUFFARCHITECTS were the delivery architects) blends harmoniously with a nearby park thanks to subtle brownish pink and purple brick facades. Perhaps Lion Green Road’s biggest achievement, as well as working with the gradient, is the landscaping quality matched with the high density and effi cient land use. There are 157 homes in the scheme, on a petite 1.45 hectare site surrounded by mature trees. The award-winning puzzle-solving by the designers has cleverly harnessed the surroundings to augment the spaces between the fi ve apartment buildings, and provide a feeling of generous landscape with curving paths and planting. The angular 13-sided blocks themselves are rotated so they present as subtly different, and yet repeatable in their design; a great combination of effi cient construction and context-based response benefi tting everyone. On a challenging site like this, Duggan’s only real choice in creating something of true value was to respond to the conditions in as sensitive a way as possible, and not fi ght them. In doing this, she and the team have provided something that may not be fully ‘teachable’ for other projects, but will stand as a solid achievement in high-density urban design for decades to come. More importantly, it’s hopefully a great place to live on the fringes of London, for its residents, many of whom might be shocked by the quality (such as the loggia balconies for each fl at) depending on their former accommodation! Reportedly, some tenants are already taking part in tending to the gardens and adding their own features, which is proof of the pudding. We see a lot of ‘tenure-blind’ schemes, but we also witness a lot of schemes which seem a bit myopic in terms of really investigating the full potential of responding to a site, from orientation, to facade treatment and landscaping. In Lion Green Road’s case, breaking the conformist mode – even subtly – has resulted in the highest honour in the profession for the architects.
James Parker, Editor
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