Croydon Housing – Mikhail Riches

Site

Croydon, an outer London borough, has great links to central London, a distinct, buoyant town centre and big plans for redevelopment. It is pushing for rapid high-quality housing provision to match this redevelopment. Westfield is on the way and investment is pouring in. Croydon is on the up.

There are a large number of disparate sites in council ownership across the borough, all tricky to develop as one-off projects: infill sites on existing estates, backland sites, suburban plots and well used car parks. Individually complex and incoherent, each of these sites needs bespoke TLC.

Strategy

To develop the sites, Croydon Council has formed a private development company, Brick by Brick, in which it is the sole shareholder. Brick by Brick will develop 1,200 homes and re-provide existing community facilities. They have appointed seven architectural practices of differing sizes to deliver high quality social and private scale housing on 60 sites. This has provided a rare opportunity for small practices to turn their focus and passion towards a very real and much needed project.

Awards

Housing Design Award (Project) 2018

Project TeamDavid Mikhail, Annalie Riches, Amy Waite, Sophie Roycroft, Rory Crawford, Matthew Pattenden, Katrina Duncan, Fiona Stewart, Lucy Norfield

ClientBrick by Brick, Croydon Council

Landscape ArchitectBBUK

TOP

How a game-changing Local Authority offered us an opportunity to develop nine sites at pace.

Croydon Housing
Bricks at Hermitage Road
Drummond Road Model
Drummond Road Model
Drummond Road Elevation
Project TeamDavid Mikhail, Annalie Riches, Amy Waite, Sophie Roycroft, Rory Crawford, Matthew Pattenden, Katrina Duncan, Fiona Stewart, Lucy Norfield
ClientBrick by Brick, Croydon Council
Landscape ArchitectBBUK
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