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Research & Innovation Regeneration Sustainable Communities Private Housing Affordable Housing PRS / Build to Rent Mixed Use Specialist Housing Student Accommodation Reuse and Retrofit Healthcare Education International Commercial & Retail Hotels, Resorts & Leisure
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PRP is a large international inter-disciplinary practice providing Architecture and a range of complementary design and consultancy services. PRP has over 50 years’ experience in housing and our portfolio embraces all aspects of residential and mixed use development, from the general to the specialist and across the public and private sectors. Our projects range from small scale to large urban regeneration projects, new settlements and mixed use developments that involve other sectors. We operate across the United Kingdom and in overseas markets where our knowledge and expertise in housing, sustainable design and place-making adds value to the regeneration and development of towns and cities.
We are an award winning practice...
WOLFSON ECONOMICS PRIZE 2014
Runner Up - Wolfson Garden City BCO NATIONAL AWARDS 2014
Winner - Innovative Workspace NATIONAL HOUSING AWARDS
Winner - Best Regeneration ProjectHaggerston West and Kingsland HOUSING DESIGN AWARDS 2014
Winner - Completed Award - Pilgrim Gardens Shortlisted - Completed Award - Halton Court Shortlisted - Completed Award - Clapham Park C2 Shortlisted - Project Award - Bell School Shortlisted - Project Award - Chobham Manor NEW LONDON AWARDS 2014
Shortlisted - Housing - Chobham Manor Phase 1 AJ100 AWARDS 2014
Shortlisted - International Practice of the Year BUILDING AWARDS 2014
Winner - Housing Project of the Year - Pilgrim Gardens BREEAM AWARDS 2014
Winner - Prince Charles Housing AJ RETROFIT AWARDS 2013
Winner - Residential - Trafford Towers SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AWARDS 2013
Winner - Larger New Housing Development Prince Charles House SUNDAY TIMES BRITISH HOMES AWARDS 2013
Shortlisted - Best Development - Kidbrooke Village HOUSING DESIGN AWARDS 2013
Shortlisted - Project Award - Maiden Lane Shortlisted - Completed Award - Rubicon Court Shortlisted - Completed Award - New Lidcote and Cumnor
We have won numerous awards for the quality of our designs, our masterplanning experience and the innovative and creative thinking that we bring to each of our projects.
...who work across London, the UK and globally London Borough of Barking & Dagenham London Borough of Barnet London Borough of Bexley London Borough of Brent London Borough of Camden London Borough of Croydon London Borough of Ealing London Borough of Enfield Royal Borough of Greenwich London Borough of Hackney London Borough of Haringey London Borough of Harrow London Borough of Havering Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Maiden Lane, Camden London Borough of Camden
Rubicon Court, King’s Cross Central London Borough of Camden
Chobham Manor, Stratford London Borough of Newham
Portobello Square Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Lewisham Gateway London Borough of Lewisham
Royal Arsenal Riverside London Borough of Greenwich
London Borough of Lambeth London Borough of Lewisham London Borough of Merton London Borough of Newham London Borough of Redbridge London Borough of Southwark London Borough of Tower Hamlets London Borough of Waltham Forest
United Kingdom Russia China Algeria Australia Bali Columbia Denmark Izhevsk Russia
Thanh Da Vietnam
Bali Resort Bali
Shanghai Theatre Academy China
India Indonesia Montenegro Poland Saudi Arabia Spain Syria Vietnam
Masterplanning our cities...
We have designed numerous masterplans and urban structures for cities around the world and various London Boroughs, from new city districts, estate regeneration and careful urban insertions to high density London masterplans.
Portobello Square, Kensington & Chelsea
...designing the buildings that make them...
We have designed buildings ranging from entire central business districts, offices, hotels, retail, cultural facilities, schools and all forms, tenures and types of residential accommodation including PRS/ Build to Rent. We are comfortable in providing an exciting design for whatever building our clients require.
Rubicon Court, King’s Cross Central
...the rooms within...
We are aware of the importance of the ‘feel’ of the inside spaces to our clients, in helping their marketing and brand awareness, and ultimately in creating places where the end users thrive. Our interiors can form a key element of our designs and are considered along with the architecture and landscaping, not as a stand alone.
...and the spaces in between. Empress State Public Square
When we consider any site or brief, we don’t just focus on the buildings as objects but consider the spaces between as equally important. We strive to make the public realm and landscaping as exciting and elegant as our architecture.
London Projects
Portobello Square Kensington, London REGENERATION MASTERPLAN WITH PRIVATE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING
PRP has developed a masterplan for the redevelopment of the Wornington Green Estate in North Kensington that restores important historic street connections and opens this 5.6 hectare site up to the wider neighbourhood.
The arrangement of the current estate disconnects it from the surrounding streets and fundamental design problems make it expensive to maintain. Initial studies by PRP demonstrated that full redevelopment was the best solution, financially and socially, for the benefit of existing residents and the wider community. The new scheme re-establishes a traditional street pattern and draws from a mix of traditional housing typologies to ensure it will knit into the surrounding vernacular. The first phase will provide 324 homes with a variety of type and tenure which will reinforce this established, vibrant and multi-cultural community.
Winner - Project Award - Housing Design Awards 2011
Lewisham Gateway Lewisham, London PRIVATE AND PRS/BUILD TO RENT ON THE LEWISHAM GATEWAY MASTERPLAN
A prominent roundabout site at the heart of Lewisham adjoining the transport hub where the DLR, mainline and bus stations conjoin. The project is a high density, mixed use development comprising retail, leisure, office and residential. PRP was appointed for the first phase of the development, comprising 195 new homes for private sale and private rent together with concierge and retail uses at ground floor.
The design works within the parameters of outline planning consent with 22 and 15 storey towers which differ in character and materials. The landscape design celebrates the confluence of the Quaggy and Ravensbourne Rivers, a key feature of the site, by creating a new public park at their meeting point.
Wembley Masterplan, London WORKING WITHIN THE WEMBLEY CITY REGENERATION MASTERPLAN
Forum House Wembley, London PRIVATE HOUSING ON WEMBLEY CITY REGENERATION MASTERPLAN
Highly commended Housebuilding Innovation Awards 2009 Best Housing Product Sustainable Housing Awards 2009 Best Waste Initiative
Forum House is the cornerstone mixed use development in the Wembley City regeneration area, defining the architectural style and quality in this prominent London location. A successful collaborative approach to sustainable residential architecture, this high quality design delivers greater communal and social interaction for residents and commercial tenants. The scheme provides 286 apartments, comprising 50% social housing units, all benefiting from concierge service, ground floor retail space and a crèche, as well as an innovative underground waste removal system (ENVAC) to be phased across Wembley City. The wrapping block acts as a sound barrier against noise from the streets and Wembley Stadium, creating a peaceful oasis in the centre of the courtyard.
Apt Student Housing Wembley, London STUDENT HOUSING ON WEMBLEY CITY REGENERATION MASTERPLAN Photography Š Tim Crocker
Shortlisted - Housebuilder Awards 2013 Best Design 4 Storeys or more
The development consists of a closed perimeter block, courtyard and landscaped amenity areas. The main element is a 660 bed student accommodation block, which provides high quality modern residential units in mix of cluster arrangements (five/six-bed) and self-contained studios. In addition to the student accommodation, the block includes retail/car parking for 228 cars, an ENVAC refuse station at lower levels and a hotel on the eastern section of the site.
Rubicon Court King’s Cross Central, London MIXED TENURE RESIDENTIAL TOWER
Shortlisted Completed Award Housing Design Awards 2013
King’s Cross Central is arguably the most significant development site in central London. Rubicon Court is located to the north-east of the site and fronts directly onto York Way. The building comprises 117 mixed tenure residential units with 35% large family, three and four bedroom units, above some 600sqm of non-residential accommodation at street level. A double height entrance
lobby off York Way takes advantage of the level difference between York Way and the interior of the site. The internal layout is planned in clusters around vertical circulation cores that avoid long corridors and minimises single aspect dwellings. The roof terrace the tower is sculpted to, forms a focal point which can be seen from numerous directions.
101 George Street, Croydon, London
HIGH DENSITY SINGLE CORE TOWERS DESIGNED FOR PRS/ BUILD TO RENT
George Street is located opposite East Croydon Station, one of the principal transport routes in Croydon, and acts as a main thoroughfare. The design works within the consented volume to create an innovative strategy for two angled wings of residential accommodation linked at ground floor. Splitting the volume of the consented scheme presented an opportunity to push one of the residential elements higher and reduce the other, creating a dramatic, landmark architectural form.
A high quality approach to the public realm around the new building will significantly improve the urban environment in the station environs. The block layout is based on a rational grid which allows flexibility of typology, including an element of Public Rented Sector (PRS) accommodation. The scheme will deliver a total of 305 apartments.
Park Heights Stockwell Park, London REGENERATION MIXED USE MASTERPLAN WITH PRIVATE AND AFFORDABLE UNITS
Park Heights will replace a dated and poorly maintained 1960s block. It is designed to London Housing Design Guide standards and will achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4*.
Consisting of a mixture of tenures, including private for sale (PRS), the 20 storey tower will be a new landmark for the area. Floor to ceiling windows leading onto large balconies stretch along the entire length of the homes and make the rooms bright and spacious.
Chobham Manor Olympic Park, London OLYMPIC LEGACY MASTERPLAN MIXED TENURES
Chobham Manor is the first of five neighbourhoods to be developed on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. Nestled between the East Village and Lee Valley VeloPark, it will comprise more than 800 homes, plus shops, community facilities and open spaces. 75% of the homes will have three bedrooms or more to appeal to families, some properties will be designed for multiple generations of the same family, while 28% of homes will be affordable properties.
The first phase comprises 259 units with a variety of innovative typologies catering for various lifestyles and family types. There are five principal types of housing planned for Chobham Manor – townhouses, mews homes, maisonettes, mansion blocks and apartments.
Royal Arsenal Riverside Woolwich, London
REGENERATION / HIGH DENSITY PRIVATE AND AFFORDABLE RESIDENTIAL
Royal Arsenal Riverside is an over-station development for Berkeley Homes at the site of the new Woolwich Crossrail station. PRP’s proposals will provide 219 homes within two blocks of 10 and 20 storeys situated within the Royal Arsenal Conservation Area and bounded by numerous listed buildings. Inspired by these historic surroundings the buildings are elevated in light buff stock bricks, accentuated with darker feature brickwork panels, punctuated with floor to ceiling windows with white stone effect cills. This phase of the Royal Arsenal Riverside will both physically and visibly contribute to the overall regeneration of the wider area and become a local landmark.
Oval Quarter Lambeth, London REGENERATION MIXED USE MASTERPLAN
Winner - Housing Design Awards 2012: Project Award Winner- Affordable Home Ownership Awards - Best Scheme in Planning
This major regeneration project in the London Borough of Lambeth will deliver 808 new homes and the refurbishment of 172 existing properties. The masterplan focuses on the public realm, at the heart of which is a new central park and community centre. A new hierarchy of streets create character areas relating to the surrounding urban form, providing a variety of identities for the different parts of the estate.
The plan incorporates new technologies for heat and power, a strategy to develop and enhance the ecology of the area and the placement of art. The plan was developed in consultation with stakeholders and the local community.
Haggerston West and Kingsland Estates Hackney, London REGENERATION MASTERPLAN WITH PRIVATE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING
In close consultation with its residents, the Haggerston Estate has been transformed through an extensive programme of reconstruction. This ÂŁ110m regeneration project includes 761 new homes in a mix of townhouses and apartments, arranged as urban blocks around a network of pedestrian friendly residential streets.
Internal courtyard podium gardens and the largest expanse of green roofs in the UK, provide generous semi-private open space, in a dense urban environment. The residential units include 55% affordable housing and 45% for private sale.
Example UK Projects
Pilgrim Gardens, Evington SPECIALIST HOUSING/EXTRA CARE
Pilgrim Gardens, Evington SPECIALIST HOUSING/EXTRA CARE
Winner - Housing Project of the Year Building Awards 2014 Winner - HAPPI Project Award - Housing Design Awards 2012
This scheme of 31 Independent Living apartments provides residents with a ‘Home for Life’, enabling them to live independently with access to care and support. Dual aspect apartments are accessed via sheltered colonnades at the ground floor and gallery access at first. The layout is logical and calm, wrapping around the courtyard with constant views outside to aid orientation. The apartments were designed to avoid north facing habitable rooms and all have balconies with sliding, folding winter gardens to enable year round use. The landscape design for the garden has an oriental theme incorporating a sequence of distinctive spaces.
Bell School, Cambridge LOW DENSITY GREENBELT DEVELOPMENT
PRP was commissioned by Hill Residential and BPHA to develop masterplan and detailed design proposals for the pony fields adjacent to Bell Language School. The 7.8Ha site has outline consent for up to 240 residential units as one of the designated Southern Fringe Sites.
PRP’s approach recognises the significance of the site location on the southern boundary of Cambridge overlooking open fields and the views towards the Gog Magog Hills. The concept for the masterplan is to create interlocking fingers of building and landscape, allowing the open landscape to flow into the scheme. This will provide a soft edge to the southern fringe of Cambridge and open up views towards the hills throughout the masterplan.
Key Contacts
JEFF BROOKS DESIGN DESIGN DIRECTOR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 3513 jeff.brooks@prparchitects.co.uk CRAIG SHEACH MASTERPLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 1203 craig.sheach@prparchitects.co.uk ANDREW WHITTINGHAM TRANSPORT PLANNING DIRECTOR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 3446 andrew.whittingham@prptransport.co.uk ADRIAN JUDD LANDSCAPE DIRECTOR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 1444 adrian.judd@prplandscape.co.uk ANDREW BLACK PLANNING ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3633 andrew.black@prpplanning.co.uk ANDREW MELLOR ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNER
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 3504 andrew.mellor@prpenvironmental.co.uk
Offices
LONDON
SURREY
MANCHESTER
PRP 10 Lindsey Street Smithfield London EC1A 9HP
PRP Ferry Works, Summer Road Thames Ditton Surrey KT7 0QJ
PRP Croxley House 14 Lloyd Street Manchester M2 5ND
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SHANGHAI
MOSCOW
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