"New housing solutions" highlighted as 30 architect-designed homes shortlisted for the Riba London Awards 2024

Stylish council housing schemes in Hackney, a Peckham house built on a budget of £350,000, and a Japanese-style apartment in the Barbican have all been tipped for a major architectural award.

London housing is top of the agenda for the Riba London Awards 2024, which announced its shortlist today.

The Riba (Royal Institute of British Architects) has an annual awards program to recognise the best new architect-designed buildings in the capital.

“As we seek new housing solutions and innovative approaches to urban regeneration, these projects provide hope for the future of our cities,” said Riba regional director of London Dian Small.

Thirty of the 76 projects shortlisted are individual houses or housing projects.

Al-Jawad Pike had two nominations for its projects for Hackney Council.

The London-based practice known for creating minimalist shops for the likes of Aesop, Burberry and Celine was shortlisted for Tori Ann Walk and Chowdhury Walk, the latter of which created 11 affordable and social rent council homes built on the site of disused garages.

Dover Court Estate by Pollard Thomas Edwards was also shortlisted for its project in Islington, which delivered 70 new homes in eight infill buildings co-developed with the residents of the 1960s estate in Islington.

Some of the homes are wheelchair accessible, and the project also created green spaces, a community centre and a ball court for the residents.

In Tower Hamlets, Orwell House by Bell Phillips was shortlisted for creating 20 new council homes that are available for social rent.

Built on on the 1957 Hoxton housing estate designed by Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin, the new block nods to its modernist heritage with a faceted facade of pink glass-reinforced concrete.

Sustainable projects were recognised in the Riba shortlist, including Courtyard Housing by Edward Williams Architects, which created 39 homes in four cross-laminated timber buildings built on an old car park, featuring Scandinavian pine cladding and solar panels on the roof.

The Arbour by Boehm Lynas Architects and GS8 also got the nod for delivering 10 carbon-negative, zero-waste and energy positive homes in Walthamstow.

Individual residential projects have also made the shortlist.

Corner Fold House by Whittaker Parsons was shortlisted for building an 88-square metre house on an infill site in Peckham. Squeezed into an infill site between the client’s house and a substation, the red brick and concrete home was built on a budget of £350,000.

Another infill project, Cork House by Polysmiths, was recognised for the owner-architect’s creation of a courtyard house on an infill site, using only the materials they could acquire during the coronavirus lockdowns.

In the Barbican, Shakespeare Tower by Takero Shimazaki Architects was shortlisted for the overhaul of an 8C type apartment, turning it into a traditional Japanese apartment with cherry wood ceilings and tatami mat flooring.

Low Energy House by Architecture for London was shortlisted for the extension and refurbishment of an Edwardian house in Muswell Hill.

Along with a rear extension and loft conversion, the architects insulated the walls with wood fibre, used stone, timber and plaster instead of cement, and installed an air filter to remove pollen and diesel pollutants.

Coppin Dockray’s refurbishment of Hampstead House, one of the handful of homes designed by modernist architect Trevor Dannatt, has also been shortlisted.

Ex-Council House Transformation by VATRAA Architecture, which has already won a Dont Move, Improve! award, got the nod for their emodel of an 1980s council house, featuring pink plaster walls and oak joinery.

Here is the Riba London Awards 2024 shortlist in full:

Abbey Wood Station by Fereday Pollard Architects

Artist Studio by VATRAA Architecture 

All Saints by EPR Architects

Battersea Power Station Phase Two by WilkinsonEyre

Bradbury Works by [Y/N] Studio

Brent Cross Town Visitor Pavilion by Moxon Architects

Bromley Old Town Hall by Cartwright Pickard

Camden Market Canopy by vPPR Architects for LabTech

Chowdhury Walk by Al-Jawad Pike 

Cork House by Polysmiths 

Corner Fold House by Whittaker Parsons 

Courtyard Housing by Edward Williams Architects 

Dover Court Estate by Pollard Thomas Edwards 

Dukes Meadow Footbridge by Moxon Architects

Dulwich House by Proctor & Shaw 

Embassy of the Slovak Republic by BD London

Ex-Council House Transformation by VATRAA Architecture 

Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins, Lyndon Goode Architects, Pitman Tozer Architects and Bureau de Change 

Francis Holland School House by IID Architects

Hampstead House by Coppin Dockray 

Hendon Waterside Phase 4, Block H1 by Makower Architects

Highgate House by Emil Eve Architects 

Holland Park Garden House by David Money Architects 

King's Cross Masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates

Leighton House by BDP

Love Walk II by Knox Bhavan Architects 

Low Energy House by Architecture for London 

LSBU Hub WilkinsonEyre

Montacute Yards by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

National Portrait Gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell

Oasis Academy Silvertown, by Rivington Street Studio

Olympic Way & Olympic Steps by Dixon Jones and vPPR Architects

Orwell House by Bell Phillips 

Oxford Road by Coffey Architects 

Paddington Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Partners

Peckham House by Surman Weston 

Pitzhanger Hub by Jo Townshend Architects

Rotherhithe Primary School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Royal Academy of Dance by Takero Shimazaki Architects

Sambrook's Brewery, RAM Quarter by Roger Mears Architects LLP

Shakespeare Tower by Takero Shimazaki Architects 

Six Columns by 31/44 Architects 

Somerset Road Covered Courts: All England Lawn Tennis Club by Hopkins Architects

St Andrew’s Holborn by DaeWha Kang Design

St John’s Waterloo by Eric Parry Architects

St. Mary's Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects

St. Michael's, Fulwell by Malcolm Fryer Architects

Sunday Mills by Assael Architecture 

Sycamore House by Jonathan Wilson RIBA 

Taper House by Merrett Houmøller Architects, All & Nxthing & Rosebank Landscaping 

Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman

Thames Christian School & Battersea Chapel by Henley Halebrown

The Africa Centre by Freehaus

The Arbour by Boehm Lynas Architects and GS8 

The Artists Residence by Gregory Phillips Architects 

The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton Architects

The Department Store Studios by Squire & Partners

The Elizabeth Line by Grimshaw, Maynard Design, Equation and Atkins

The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects

The Learning Tree Nursery by Delve Architects

The Parcels Building by Grafton Architects

The Tannery by Coffey Architects 

The Tree House by Bell Phillips 

The Rowe by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Tori Ann Walk by Al-Jawad Pike 

Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line station by Hawkins\Brown

Unity Place by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, Gort Scott, RM_A Architects 

Urbanest City by APT London and Hopkins Architects

Verna, Acton Gardens by GRID Architects and Countryside Partnerships 

White House School by vPPR Architects

White Patio House by Pashenko Works 

Woolwich Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Partners

67 Southwark Street by Allies and Morrison 

10 Lewis Cubitt Square by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

22 Handyside Street by Coffey Architects

98-100 De Beauvoir Road by Henley Halebrown