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Avanti completes affordable housing block for Be First in Dagenham
This scheme at Oxlow Lane redevelops and densifies a former council estate to deliver 62 affordable homes for Be First, the regeneration arm of Barking and Dagenham Council
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
White Arkitekter completes Scandi-inspired neighbourhood in Barking
White Arkitekter has completed the latest phase of the Gascoigne Estate regeneration in Barking, one of London’s largest estate makeover projects
Haysom Ward Miller completes Cambridgeshire almshouses
Cambridge-based Haysom Ward Miller has completed 21 community-led homes in Great Shelford, just outside Cambridge
Nissen Richards completes first phase of new-build estate in Berkshire
Once both phases are complete, the estate, in Newbury, will have 167 apartments, central landscaping and a new link road, making it the practice’s largest project to date
DLA Architecture completes colonnaded YMCA in Wimbledon
The scheme’s first phase provides purpose-built supported living for 121 residents in south-west London
Chipperfield completes ‘sculptural’ residential scheme in Belgium
The Hertogensite scheme in Leuven consists of a 14-storey tower, nine townhouses and a small apartment block, combined into a single building
Studio Egret West completes 429 build-to-rent homes in Maidenhead
The mixed-use development in the Thames Valley town includes 3,350m2 of ground-floor shops and restaurants around a landscaped square
Commons people: IF_DO creates community hub for Hastings
The transformation of Hastings’ Observer Building into a vibrant community hub is a welcome counter to the wave of gentrification seen in the seaside town, says Ellen Peirson. Photography by Kilian O’Sullivan
Stolon Studio creates ‘sociable’ housing from farm buildings
The Parks in Herefordshire transforms a group of neglected agricultural buildings into eight sustainable rural homes
Alta Tower rises up over Le Havre’s postwar Modernism
The 64-apartment building by Hamonic+Masson & Associés stands out against the horizon in Le Havre – a city that was rebuilt, postwar, to Auguste Perret’s Modernist vision, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Takuji Shimmura, Clément Bonnérat and Hamonic+Masson & Associés