Levitt Bernstein Associates - Housing

Expertise

Queensbridge Quarter, Hackney

Details

The final phase of the Holly Street estate redevelopment provides 151 affordable and private homes over 2 city blocks separated by a new one-way road to replace the last of the deck access buildings built in the 1970s. Levitt Bernstein has devised a design as a departure from earlier phases of the masterplan, reflecting the involvement of the existing residents since the beginning of the project in 1999 and their desire to remain as council tenants.

The scheme design and layout make good use of passive solar energy, and use a restricted palette of materials in combination with large feature balconies and coloured glass cladding to penthouses along the main road frontage, to respond to the changes in scale and grain of the surrounding streets.

At a glance

Client: Modern City Living/United House

Construction Value £20m

Completion: (Phase 1) 2008 (Phase 2 ) 2009

Awards: Housing Design Awards 2007 - Winner

Housing Design Awards 2009 - Shortlisted

Grand Design Awards 2009 - Shortlisted: Best Housing Development of the Year

Mail on Sunday Awards 2009 - Shortlisted: Small House of the Year and Apartment Building of the Year

British Homes Awards, Apartment Building of the Year 2009

Building for Life Gold Standard 2009

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