David Tigg Architects and Imaginary Rock Foundation named runners-up
Pope Priestley has won this year’s Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards, an ideas competition organised in partnership with the RIBA.
It is the first time the event has been open to practices - it was previously contested by students only - and this year’s theme was regeneration. Firms were asked to produce designs for the Hillingdon Square site in Norfolk, or similar areas chosen by the entrants.
Pope Priestley won with a proposal incorporating allotments and green walls. The team was led by architectural technologist Lois Lawn and architectural assistant Paul Spratt. Lawn said: “We were passionate about designing a strategy that could be applied to any housing regeneration site.
“To win first place bears testimony to the hard work we have put in, and also to the other housing schemes that we are currently working on in the office.”
David Tigg Architects came second with a scheme featuring orchards and tree-lined cycle paths. The Imaginary Rock Foundation was awarded third place.
Tigg said: “The housing concept using the existing block structure as a starting point, focused on a cluster typology that kept density high yet afforded individuals and families high quality living space.”
In the student category, Craig More came first followed by James Perry and Claire Harper in second, and Tom Cole in third.
The jury included architects Lynne Sullivan and Walter Menteth from the RIBA, designer Wayne Hemingway and National Housing Federation chief executive David Orr.
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