Tower Court - New London Awards 2024 Winner
Winner in the housing category
Tower Court sits amongst a busy, culturally diverse neighbourhood, home to Europe’s largest Haredi community. This Hackney Council owned scheme provides 132 high-quality, modern mixed tenure homes for social rent, shared ownership and sale for this community and others.
Rigorous site analysis and deep community engagement led to a design that has grown from place and people This tenure blind scheme creates foundations for a mixed, integrated community.
Buildings flex around existing mature trees and open out onto Clapton Common. Public realm is intensively shaped as a social place of encounter and play. Civic qualities at all scales enable vibrant family life within dense urbanity.
team credits
Client
London Borough of Hackney
Lead Architect
Adam Khan Architects
Collaborating Architects
muf architecture/art
Child Graddon Lewis
Tom Stebbing, (with Bernd Schmutz and Cathy Hawley)
Daisy Froud
J & L Gibbons