Case studies
Read more about award-winning schemes and the best of international housing design. See who won Building for Life Awards in 2009.
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Abbotts Wharf
Tower Hamlets, London
Hailed by the judges as a "pioneering development from a socially conscious developer", Abbotts Wharf has brought new life to a drab brownfield site.

Abode
Newhall, Harlow
Described by John Prescott as 'a model of the communities we have to build', Abode combines the sense of occasion afforded by one-off houses with the economies of volume house building.

Accordia
Cambridge
This exceptional residential scheme close to the centre of Cambridge has been fitted densely into a site which formerly housed government offices and prefabricated WWII buildings.

Adelaide Wharf
Hackney, London
Adelaide Wharf is a redevelopment of a brownfield site into high- density, high-quality housing within a largely residential area of Hackney.

Admiralty Quarter
Portsmouth
A handsome housing scheme next to Portsmouth’s historic dockyard which squares up to the surrounding buildings, including the Mary Rose and Victory museums.

Allerton Bywater (Area 3B)
Castleford, West Yorkshire
This innovative housing scheme is a small part of a much larger regeneration project and is at the south eastern corner of the Allerton Bywater Millennium Village which is being developed on the reclaimed site of a former colliery.

Angel Waterside
Islington, London
An imaginative high density, mixed tenure, mixed use urban redevelopment of a former brownfield site, which also creates an excellent new public amenity.

Angell Town
Brixton, London
This entirely social housing scheme is a radical redevelopment of a Lambeth Council 'groundscraper' 4 and 5 storey estate finished in 1978, which from its inception had serious problems of crime and unsociability.

Beaufort Court
London
Beaufort Court in Lillie Road, West London was designed as a model of affordable housing.

BedZed
Sutton, Surrey
BedZed (Beddington Zero Energy Development) is the UK's first successful environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient mixed-use development.
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