Established in 1995, Henley Halebrown has evolved from a practice working on a range of interiors, exhibitions and domestic commissions to completing award winning education, healthcare, residential, commercial and arts buildings as well as “adaptive reuse” projects. We have been named Healthcare Architect of the Year in 2008, Public Building Architect of the Year in 2011 and Housing Architect of the Year in 2021.

 

We treat each housing project as an opportunity to think about how the buildings and spaces we construct can have a positive impact on people’s lives. From London’s first co-housing community at Copper Lane and our RIBA Stirling Prize-shortlisted student housing in Roehampton, to the RIBA Neave Brown Award-winning and Stirling Prize-shortlisted 333 Kingsland Road & Hackney New Primary School and local-authority led estate regeneration and infill projects across Hackney, to a residential tower in Hammersmith and Fulham, all these varied residential projects have the shared ambition of raising the standard of housing provision in the UK. We are currently delivering around 1600 new and refurbished homes across London.

 

We have completed the first two phases of a scheme to regenerate the Kings Crescent estate for Hackney Council, creating a total of 262 new homes and 101 refurbished flats of mixed tenure. We are now working on the delivery of Phases 3 and 4, a scheme which will create a further 217 new and 174 refurbished homes as well as a new public square, community facilities, retail and affordable workspace.

 

In west London, Edith Summerskill House on the post-war Clem Atlee Estate in Fulham is an 18-storey tower providing 133 social rent homes, developed by Stanhope and Peabody in a joint venture with the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been described by the Planning Inspector “an outstanding piece of design" and a "game changer for the quality of affordable housing".

 

Our housing work is characterised by a rich and durable material palette, creativity within constrained budgets, robust detailing, attractive amenity space and most importantly carefully considered, attractive homes that form the backdrop to people’s daily lives.

 

We are passionate about delivering fantastic homes that make a wider contribution to society, and believe that the variety and quality of our housing work stands out for the way in which high minded ideas are matched by an attention to detail, construction and an understanding of what makes a good home and an attractive place to live.

 

Our projects demonstrate the variety of our approaches to housing design. We have delivered projects which not only repair the urban fabric but also raise the quality of a new generation of social housing with a civic quality. Our sensitive approach to estate regeneration ensures that attractive new homes are complemented by the meaningful transformations of existing buildings, addressing the disparity between ’us’ and 'them’. And we have shown how mixed-use schemes can bring residential and education or commercial uses together on one site to be more than the sum of their parts, exemplary approaches to hybrid architecture.