weirdly aesthetic, clearly shoestring budget, and limited room, not bad
Those windows are way too big, need more bricks! [/s]
Wierd design but not too bad tbh
Lucky bustards is all that I can say. I have very little disposable income once my rent, transport and bills are paid.
Very nice. Finally some positive urban design. Where is this exactly?
Awesome for those who get it. For those who can’t get council flats, we’re consigned to spending a fortune on rent or, if you are very lucky, a mortgage for Victorian conversions with no soundproofing, or a knackered old council flat.
It feels like the world is really not working for anyone bar the 1%.
I mean they are well designed but how small are the windows?
Genuinely not bad. Feel like I’ve seen some similar grand designs that pull some magic tricks on small London footprints to do some interesting stuff. Wonder what they’re like inside.
Why low-rise?
I like the look of these. Wish they weren’t building more low rise though.
Reminiscent of Duckworth Terrace here in Abbey Wood, which was a fairly recent Greenwich Council build
Why do English homes have such tiny windows, despite the country being a) famously overcast, and b) famously mild-weathered
I get it why someone in the 18th century might have wanted to minimise heat loss, but I don’t get it in the 20th century when we have triple-glazed windows.
Any housing’s better than none, but ugly-ass low rise is definitely the worst kind of housing to be building.
Good council houses and estates can reduce crime , encourage social mobility , and make areas happier and nicer . It’s a fact and I’ve seen it with my own eyes . And I can see it’s galling for people who can’t get on the list . I can .
10 homes and half were sold on the private market. I wouldn’t call them council homes either (been inside) – they’re pretty glamorous.
If you paid for something like that in hackney you’d be looking at £1.5million minimum. They don’t look appealing to me personally but it’s great to hear more social housing is being built for those who need it!
Al-Jawad Pike Are mental good, I trust these will be fantastic.
Also love the arched window.
But… It’s not a tower block! How will it solve the housing crisis! Argh NIMBYS how dare they!?!?
I am up for high quality council housing but surely that window design is an extra 5-10k more than a fairly normal window and therefore totally unnecessary?
Is that level ground entry normal doors downhill from a pavement with dropped curb? My instinct says that’s surely going to cause water damage…
The symmetry makes me think of Vivarium lol
Nice. Moar and moar pls.
I like the door design, they have something like that in Greenwich, I assume it’s for noise and privacy?
They already don’t look great. Give them 30 years max to lose their glitz and look full-on hideous, like those 1960s-70s blocks that everyone reviles.
Cheap bricks, planters all made from concrete blocks rather than a nice bespoke metal planter or something, very limited landscaping, very limited material palette, cheap-ish looking fittings and kitchens This isn’t CHEAP, but it’s a relatively small budget used really really well to produce something pretty great – seemingly with a good focus on low carbon too. It’s not “cardboard, spit and hopes” like a lot of housebuilding, but it’s not the nice high end private developer money.
the architecture makes me want to hurl!
i really like them and council housing should standardly be better and more ambitious than the almost uniformly boring lowest common denominator private and housing association developments going up everywhere. it’s a shame there isn’t more of it being built and that a labour government can’t get it’s head around the fact that no matter how much you kowtow to them and supercharge them private house builders will never build to meet the need for housing in this country. would be great to see some centrally funded mass and high quality housebuilding bypassing the commercial sector. and some high rises. and maybe someone other than peter barber working with the same amount of imagination and ambition in social housing. look at what camden achieved in the 60s/70s.
It’s nice to see houses being built instead of 50 storey apartment blocks
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weirdly aesthetic, clearly shoestring budget, and limited room, not bad
Those windows are way too big, need more bricks! [/s]
Wierd design but not too bad tbh
Lucky bustards is all that I can say. I have very little disposable income once my rent, transport and bills are paid.
Very nice. Finally some positive urban design. Where is this exactly?
Awesome for those who get it. For those who can’t get council flats, we’re consigned to spending a fortune on rent or, if you are very lucky, a mortgage for Victorian conversions with no soundproofing, or a knackered old council flat.
It feels like the world is really not working for anyone bar the 1%.
Stirling Prize Nominated – https://youtu.be/uBVr6VFzQr4
I mean they are well designed but how small are the windows?
Genuinely not bad. Feel like I’ve seen some similar grand designs that pull some magic tricks on small London footprints to do some interesting stuff. Wonder what they’re like inside.
Why low-rise?
I like the look of these. Wish they weren’t building more low rise though.
Reminiscent of Duckworth Terrace here in Abbey Wood, which was a fairly recent Greenwich Council build
https://preview.redd.it/phsrtijone0f1.jpeg?width=1210&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bec5b3a2a37962d386e62b58323d72a3e981ed2b
come on! only 2 floors?
look nice though
Why do English homes have such tiny windows, despite the country being a) famously overcast, and b) famously mild-weathered
I get it why someone in the 18th century might have wanted to minimise heat loss, but I don’t get it in the 20th century when we have triple-glazed windows.
Any housing’s better than none, but ugly-ass low rise is definitely the worst kind of housing to be building.
Good council houses and estates can reduce crime , encourage social mobility , and make areas happier and nicer . It’s a fact and I’ve seen it with my own eyes . And I can see it’s galling for people who can’t get on the list . I can .
10 homes and half were sold on the private market. I wouldn’t call them council homes either (been inside) – they’re pretty glamorous.
If you paid for something like that in hackney you’d be looking at £1.5million minimum. They don’t look appealing to me personally but it’s great to hear more social housing is being built for those who need it!
Al-Jawad Pike Are mental good, I trust these will be fantastic.
Also love the arched window.
But… It’s not a tower block! How will it solve the housing crisis! Argh NIMBYS how dare they!?!?
I am up for high quality council housing but surely that window design is an extra 5-10k more than a fairly normal window and therefore totally unnecessary?
Is that level ground entry normal doors downhill from a pavement with dropped curb? My instinct says that’s surely going to cause water damage…
The symmetry makes me think of Vivarium lol
Nice. Moar and moar pls.
I like the door design, they have something like that in Greenwich, I assume it’s for noise and privacy?
They already don’t look great. Give them 30 years max to lose their glitz and look full-on hideous, like those 1960s-70s blocks that everyone reviles.
Cheap bricks, planters all made from concrete blocks rather than a nice bespoke metal planter or something, very limited landscaping, very limited material palette, cheap-ish looking fittings and kitchens This isn’t CHEAP, but it’s a relatively small budget used really really well to produce something pretty great – seemingly with a good focus on low carbon too. It’s not “cardboard, spit and hopes” like a lot of housebuilding, but it’s not the nice high end private developer money.
the architecture makes me want to hurl!
i really like them and council housing should standardly be better and more ambitious than the almost uniformly boring lowest common denominator private and housing association developments going up everywhere. it’s a shame there isn’t more of it being built and that a labour government can’t get it’s head around the fact that no matter how much you kowtow to them and supercharge them private house builders will never build to meet the need for housing in this country. would be great to see some centrally funded mass and high quality housebuilding bypassing the commercial sector. and some high rises. and maybe someone other than peter barber working with the same amount of imagination and ambition in social housing. look at what camden achieved in the 60s/70s.
It’s nice to see houses being built instead of 50 storey apartment blocks
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