St Leonard’s Court · 混合型社区丨英国伦敦丨Child Graddon Lewis

Architect：Child Graddon Lewis

Location：New North Road, London N1, UK; | ;

Project Year：2020

Category：Apartments

St Leonard’s Court is 71 new homes designed by Child Graddon Lewis for Hackney Council and Countryside Properties, with over 32% affordable. Hallmarked by a tenure-blind design that ensures no visual distinction between private and affordable properties, the development provides the unique opportunity to be part of a true, mixed-tenure community.

The scheme fundamentally promotes the health and wellbeing of its residents. All have universal access to the surrounding picturesque views and the sensory-rich experience created by the shared central courtyard and roof gardens.

St Leonard’s Court is a distinctive contemporary addition to Hackney’s townscape. The tallest block has a unique concave shape that embraces and welcomes the prominent townscape junction.

The collegiate feel of the scheme is designed intentionally to complement the setting for the site’s historical context, comprising a Grade II Listed Church and terrace of listed Georgian properties adjacent to the site. This has informed the scale and materiality of the building, with a palette of alternatively coloured bricks selected throughout to address each neighbouring building.

The development further reinstates housing aligned to the surrounding streets, with front doors and gardens providing additional security – creating a tangible sense of community with a traditional street frontage.

An extensive consultation programme ensured the local community connected with the new scheme. The design simultaneously gained strong support from all review panels and Historic England – each praising the justified design approach.

Part of a wider programme of regeneration, the scheme is described by Hackney Council as ‘the embodiment’ of the local authority’s programme to build ‘thousands of high quality homes itself, on its own land, acting as its own developer’.

The variety and quality of the landscaped areas are key features, providing social spaces to enrich the experience of living within the development – including raised beds for residents to grow their own food. Given such an urban site, these spaces provide an oasis of biodiversity for all living within the development.

Each home additionally exceeds national minimum space standards, offering generous, spacious homes.

The energy efficiency measures for the development incorporate the following;

3B5P (Duplex) – 9 units

2B4P – 29 units

2B3P – 2 units

1B2P – 31 units

Hackney Council & Countryside Properties

Child Graddon Lewis

Countryside Properties

Corbett & Tasker

Ramboll

Townshend Landscape Architects

Child Graddon Lewis

Revit

Alan Williams

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