Unity Place
by Design Architects - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios / Alison Brooks Architects / Gort Scott | Delivery Architects - RM_A Architects
Client London Borough of Brent
Award RIBA London Award 2024
A key element in the 15-year South Kilburn Regeneration Programme, Unity Place successfully transforms the area with a neighbourhood of 235 social rent homes designed to integrate with its surroundings. It not only seeks to significantly enhance the living conditions of existing residents but also to complement the area’s architectural heritage, especially nearby St Augustine’s Church.
The scheme offers 100% affordable homes across a mix of sizes and unit types, from one-bed single-floor flats to four-bed two-storey maisonettes, alongside community-focused amenities such as a hub, landscaped areas, publicly accessible playspace, and parking. It also features an energy centre for the wider South Kilburn estate.
Infrastructure constraints and the proximity to conservation areas and listed buildings posed challenges for the design. The architects met these with a varied but unified scheme that reinstates historical street patterns, harmonising high-density housing with the surrounding low- to medium-rise buildings through contextually sympathetic materials.
Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.
Contractor Telford Homes
Structural Engineer Buro Happold
Environmental/M&E Engineer Buro Happold
Acoustic Engineer Buro Happold
Transport Buro Happold
Civil Engineer Buro Happold
Landscape Architect Grant Associates
Fire Engineer The Fire Surgery
Gross internal area in m² 26,964
