Two projects in London designed by Allies and Morrison have been shortlisted in this year’s Housing Design Awards.
Recently completed, Westbourne Park Baptist Church provides new accommodation for a church community, a family centre, Paddington Children’s Library, a community hall and thirty-two affordable apartments. This hybrid combination helped secure the future of the church community and provided much needed affordable housing in Westminster. The building was featured in the Architecture Foundation’s exhibition on the changing nature of sacred architecture in Britain.
In Barking, twenty-seven new shared ownership homes at Kingsbridge Terraces, Gascoigne Estate occupy council owned land that lay vacant since 2011. The terraces are organised in four rows re-establishing routes severed in the 1970s. Stacked maisonettes define one side; lower units are larger homes with back gardens, while upper maisonettes offer two-bedroom dwellings with their own raised front entrances and upper level amenity terrace.