Olympic housing architects named
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Ten architects including Allies & Morrison, PRP and Alison Brooks are still left in the race to build the first neighbourhood on the Olympic Park. The first homes at Chobham Manor are due to be completed by 2014 as part of a wider plan to redevelop the site over the next 20 years. A six strong shortlist of house builders to build the first 800 homes has this week been halved by the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC). A winner will be chosen later in the summer. Allies & Morrison, Maccreanor Lavington, Witherford Watson Mann and RPS are part of the Barratt Homes/Le Frak Organisation team while Make and PRP have linked up with Taylor Wimpey and London & Quadrant. The remaining bidder is East Thames and Countryside Properties which features Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks, S333 and Grant Associates. In all, 70% of the 800 homes will be family housing with a third of all homes in the first phase earmarked for affordable housing. The OPLC said it wants Chobham Manor to be a mix of terraced housing, mews housing and duplex apartments. More work in the futureChobham Manor is the first of five neighbourhoods due to be built at the site – which will be renamed Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – over the next 20 years. In all, 8,000 new homes will spring up in addition to the 2,800 flats at the Athletes Village which will be renamed East Village. AHMM has designed the Chobham Academy, which will have room for 2,200 pupils and be run by schools group the Harris Federation. |
