Project showcase

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2024

Storyteller Library, Cinema & Housing, London Borough of Bexley, for London Borough of Bexley, with DRDH and Really Local Group

The Storyteller Library, Cinema, and Housing fully opened in Summer 2023. It consists of a three-screen independent cinema; a cafe; nine apartments; co-working space; a gallery; and a “Changing Places” sanitary facility. The £6.2m development is located on the high street of suburban Sidcup. The project is DRDH’s first public building in London.

Winner in Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Appleby Blue Almshouse, London Borough Southwark, for United St Saviour’s Charity, Southwark Council and JTRE, with Witherford Watson Mann architects

With a construction value of £25.1m, the Appleby Blue Almshouse brings a new retirement community to Bermondsey. Of the 57 new homes, 51 are one bedroom flats and 6 are two-bedroom. The building includes a community centre, lounge, activities room, communal kitchen, spa and beauty room, as well as a garden.

Winner in Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Harkness Memorial, Melbourne, Australia, for Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, with McGregor Coxall, Aurecon, Architectus, Greenshoot Consulting, and Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

The first phase of the Harkness Memorial Masterplan concerns 128ha of land adjacent to the Gilgai Woodlands Nature Conservation Reserve. The project will address challenges posed by Melbourne’s rapidly growing western suburbs, with new and improved public spaces across the site, in a reimagining of the public cemetery. Melbourne’s largest memorial site, Harkness will be adapted as a multi-use space for memorialisation and community needs.

Winner in International Future Place - The Pineapples Awards 2024

International Future Place

University of Glasgow Western Campus, Glasgow, for University of Glasgow and Multiplex, with LUC, AECOM, 7N and Arup

Redevelopment of the Western Campus of the University of Glasgow includes the refurbishment of four buildings; one of which, the Adam Smith business school required £50m of the £430m total project budget. The project encompasses 85,000sqm of student accommodation, learning, teaching, and research space; 26,000sqm of which will be the Keystone Building.

Winner in Place in Progress - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Place in Progress

The Verdean, London Borough of Ealing, for Peabody and Mount Anvil, with Levitt Bernstein, Kew Gardens, Exterior Architecture, Light Follows Behaviour and Tigg Coll

The Verdean is a £520m development set to create 1,228 new homes, 455 of which will be affordable. Two residential towers, the Oak and the Aster will contain 160 and 170 homes, respectively. Six percent of commercial spaces totaling 780sqm will be allocated to local businesses. The scheme will incorporate additional public realm community connectivity improvements and green spaces.

Winner in Place in Progress - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Place in Progress

Meridian Water, London Borough of Enfield, for Enfield Council and Strategic Infrastructure Works, with Taylor Woodrow, Arup and Stace

The £6bn Meridian Water, one of the largest regeneration projects in London, has a scope of over 25 years. It will provide 10,000 homes over its course with the first twenty delivered in September 2023 including family-sized housing, accessible homes, and single bedroom flats. Enfield Council funded the £46m Meridian Water station, completed in 2019, and considered a linchpin for the development.

Winner in Future Public Realm - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Future Public Realm

Lancaster West Estate, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team, with Lancaster West Residents' Association

Following the Grenfell Tower Tragedy, Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team was set up to be an innovative new, hyper-localised neighbourhood management model, providing 21st century model housing services that have residents at their heart. In partnership with Lancaster West Residents’ Association and other key stakeholders, Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team set out to rebuild the community through collaboration, co-designing the services, and refurbishment of the estate itself.

Winner of Future Place - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Future Place

Sparks Bristol, Bristol, for Artspace and Global Goals Centre, with Invisible Circus

Located in a former department store, Sparks Bristol offers visitors retail and education opportunities. Visitors can experience a range of shops, installations, events and more in each curated department. The upstairs is a hub for local artists, offering affordable studios, rehearsal and performance space.

Winner in Activation: Community Space

Activation: Community space

Bexleyheath High Streets for All, London Borough of Bexley, for London Borough of Bexley, with We Made That and POoR Collective

A series of events and activities were run from May 2021 and completed at the end of May 2023 to test new approaches to revitalising Bexleyheath town centre. The team behind Bohemia Place Market have been successfully running markets alongside community consultation that have led to wayfinding and accessibility improvements. The scheme conducted 14 youth workshops with 59 students aged between 11-18 years old along with 8 older residents, and 180 young people partaking in an online survey

Winner of Activation - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Activation

West End Project, London Borough of Camden for Camden Council - with Central District Alliance, LDA Design, Norman Rourke Pryme, Arcadis and Michael Grubb Studio

Camden Council’s £35m investment into the area around London’s Tottenham Court Road aims to dramatically enhance urban public space. The project reclaims road space for 0.7ha of new parks, squares and incidental pocket plazas and the re-imagining of 0.3 hectares of existing space. Removing the one-way systems and reducing traffic on Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street. The planting plan includes over 1,000m2 of new beds and borders.

Winner of Public Space - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Public Space

Tower Hamlets Town Hall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for London Borough of Tower Hamlets with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Richard Griffiths, Elliott Wood, Atelier 10 and Bouygues UK

The Georgian external facades of the Grade-II listed former Royal London Hospital are a Whitechapel High Street landmark. The retrofit has created a home for Tower Hamlets Town Hall within its 2.6ha site. The £125m development includes a new build extension that provides six floors of open plan, flexible office space for 2,470 council staff plus partner organisations, a new council chamber and associated meeting facilities.

Winner in Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Creative Retrofit

3 Mills Studios, London Borough of Newham, for London Legacy Development Corporation, with Gort Scott and Freehaus

Located on the bank of the River Lea, 3 Mills Studios is the city’s oldest surviving industrial centre and has been a hub for TV and film since the 1980s. The retrofit project has created over 900sqm of new workspace for production teams through the adaptive and creative reuse of three key buildings: The Gin Still, the Grade-II listed Custom House and the Rush House. The improvement of flood resilience measures hopes to ensure the long-term preservation of this heritage site.

Winner of Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Creative Retrofit

Church Street Regeneration, City of Westminster, for Westminster City Council, with Bell Phillips, Arcadis, Stantec, Max Fordham, Savills, Flint and Camlins

The 3.84ha development site between Edgware Road – the neighbourhood’s primary retail and commercial area – and quieter terraced streets to the north of Marylebone Station, sees the provision of up to 1,200 new homes with 7,000sqm of retail space. The project aims for a 40% increase in publicly accessible open space and will support around 525 retail jobs and around 3,500 construction-related jobs.

Winner of Future Place: Up to 5ha - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Future Place: Up to 5ha

Urban GreenUP, Liverpool, for Liverpool City Council, Mersey Forest and University of Liverpool, with reShaped

Across 44 different postcodes and sites, GreenUP has enhanced access to local greenspace for 500,000 residents in Liverpool. The project has planted 100,000 trees and shrubs, and created accessible walking routes, increasing walking by 13.9% and footfall for local businesses. The interventions have increased pollinators by 928%, reduced air surface temperatures by 7.2C degrees and diverted 5,200,000 litres of water from sewers, reducing flooding.

Winner of Climate Resilience - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Climate Resilience

Designing Cities for and with Women and Girls, London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, for the London Legacy Development Corporation

Site experience walks with women, girls, and gender-diverse people developed a shared perception for LLDC’s work in hotspot sites. A Women and Girls Safety Charter was signed by local key stakeholders and landowners to ensure an approach that aligns with the findings. The engagement project intends to influence infrastructure and planning powers, such as the allocation of Section 106 monies and the use of the neighbourhood portion of Community Infrastructure Levy.

Winner in Community Engagement - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Community Engagement

Brent Cross West, London Borough of Barnet, for Barnet Council and Related Argent, with Mace and Studio Egret West

Brent Cross West is the first mainline station to open in London in over a decade. Barnet is the first local authority in England to deliver a rail infrastructure project, securing £419m of central government funding for the realisation of a 650sqm site with four platforms. The station acts as a gateway to Brent Cross Town, the 73ha, £8bn net zero neighbourhood being delivered in partnership with Related Argent.

Winner of Infrastructure - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Infrastructure

Soho Place, City of Westminster, for Derwent London and Nimax Theatres, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Arup and Laing O’Rouke

No. 1 Soho Place in Westminster combines a 600 seat theatre with contemporary office and retail spaces. Spanning 26,000 sqm, this is the first new theatre in the West End in 50 years. The latest development from Derwent London by AHMM, this £300m mixed-use project is part of large-scale regeneration around the Elizabeth line’s Tottenham Court Road station.

Shortlisted for Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Hackney Bridge, London Borough of Hackney, for Make Shift, with Turner Works

The £4.6m Hackney Bridge development will serve as a 12-15 year temporary space until the development of Olympic Legacy Plan housing. This is the third project from incubator company Make Shift. Five buildings totalling 2630 sqm bring together workspaces including maker’s shops, co-working spaces, and artists’ studios; as well as a public market hall, events space, and food and drink vendors.

Shortlisted for Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Living Wetland Theatre and Waterscapes Aviary, Slimbridge, for Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, with BD Landscape Architects, Kay Elliott Architects, Hoare Lea and David Dexter Engineers

Completed in 2021, Gloucestershire’s Living Wetland Theatre forms part of a £4.4m funding awarded to WWT Slimbridge by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Alongside a new lagoon, new stream and waterscapes aviary, a 360-seat theatre with shelter from the elements allows visitors to pause and learn about the local wildlife through immersive experiences and activities hosted by the Wetland Centre.

Shortlisted for Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Unity Place, Milton Keynes, for Santander UK, with LOM architecture and design

Completed in November 2023 as a new work campus for 6,000 Santander UK employees, the Unity Place development at 200 Grafton Gate in Milton Keynes includes 44,000sqm of office space across eight stories. Designed to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and WELL ‘Gold’ standard, the £150m project also gives public access to an “urban market,” retail outlet, community spaces, health facilities and a terrace cafe.

Shortlisted for Building - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Building

Sea Gardens, Bray, for Ballymore, with Howells Architects

A 45-min train ride into the city centre on the DART rail link and 5 minute walk from the beach, Sea Gardens in County Wicklow aims to connect the city and coast for the Bray community. The project will provide 1200 two and three-bedroom homes across the 40ha site with an estimated GDV of over £5m and more than 9ha of public open space in addition to the new 5ha Central park.

Shortlisted for International Future Place - The Pineapples Awards 2024

International Future Place

Micro Colony, Coastal Bangladesh, for GROHE, with UArchitects

UArchitects’ development proposal for coastal locations in Bangladesh comprises 1ha of water based infrastructure – a fixed island to combat the intensification of floods. Micro Colony proposes accommodation for approximately 50 people initially, with trade for up to approximately 10 families. A small school and a medical centre are attached to the ‘community island’ as a ‘colony hub’, with further public resources.

Shortlisted for International Future Place - The Pineapples Awards 2024

International Future Place

Singapore Makers Land, Singapore, for Jurong Town Corporation, with Broadway Malyan, Savills, Arup

The Kallang Kolam Ayer masterplan sits across two districts either side of the Kallang River and Pelton Canal. With 1.3km of river frontage, the Makers Land proposes a new arts district for the existing residential community and industrial estates. Arup’s masterplan details a riverfront SoHo as a place to live, work and play, making better use of space by integrating industrial and non-industrial uses.

Shortlisted for International Future Place - The Pineapples Awards 2024

International Future Place

The Britannia Project, London Borough of Hackney, for London Borough of Hackney, with Tibbalds, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and FaulknerBrowns Architects

A three-phase development being developed across a 3.2ha site, The Britannia Project is expected to be completed in 2026. Included in the £154m plan is a leisure centre to replace the former Britannia Leisure Centre; a 1,140 student school and hundreds of new homes. 290 of the homes will be for outright sale, 30 for shared ownership, and 51 homes for social rent.

Shortlisted for Place in Progress - The Pineapples Awards 2024

Place in Progress