"Appleby Blue Almshouse, which provides affordable flats for over-65s in Southwark, south London, has won this year's Royal Institute of British Architechts' (Riba) Stirling Prize. The complex, in Bermondsey, has 59 flats plus communal facilities, including a roof garden, courtyard and community kitchen. The Stirling Prize judges said it "sets an ambitious standard for social housing among older people". Philip Vile/Riba"
"The building was praised for its "generous" homes, terracotta-paved hallways with benches and plants, and a water feature that gives the building the "sense of a woodland oasis". That all creates an "aspirational living environment" that stands "in stark contrast to the institutional atmosphere often associated with older people's housing", Riba said. Philip Vile/Riba The Appleby Blue Almshouse was built on the site of an old care home by United St Saviour's Charity, which subsidises the flats for people on low incomes."
Appleby Blue Almshouse in Bermondsey, Southwark provides 59 affordable flats for people aged over 65, alongside communal facilities including a roof garden, courtyard and community kitchen. Architects Witherford Watson Mann delivered terracotta-paved hallways with benches and plants, a water feature and generous homes intended to foster community and well-being. Judges praised the scheme as setting an ambitious standard for social housing for older people and as creating an aspirational living environment that avoids institutional character. The development was built on the site of a former care home and is subsidised by United St Saviour's Charity for low-income residents.
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