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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2019

Disclaimer: The Pineapples 2019: Details provided for each project may have changed since awards entries were submitted in early 2019

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2019

West End Project, London

The West End Project is a radical overhaul of traffic and public realm in central London. It removes the one-way systems and general traffic on Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street, closes streets to create parks and new squares, widens pavements and improves road safety for cyclists and pedestrians. The aim is to shape the public realm to tackle air quality, loneliness and climate change.

Port Loop, Birmingham

Port Loop was a redundant urban island, strangled by canals, just outside Birmingham the city centre. It is one of the UK’s most significant brownfield regeneration schemes, and is being transformed into a new, family-focused waterside neighbourhood. The 43-acre site will bring 1,150 new homes to the city, along with workspaces, parks, community facilities, a swimming pool, cycleways, 1.5km of towpaths and a water bus stop.

2019 Future Place Winner

Balham Town Centre, London

Balham has undergone much change as young professionals and families, priced out of Clapham, moved in to the area. But the town centre and streetscape was in need of improvement. The scheme to overhaul the public realm included transforming Hildreth Street into a vibrant market square with a cafe strip and finding a creative solution to the ‘ugly wall’, a flank wall that is now covered in mock-Victorian green faience tiling as a nod to the Northern Line.

2019 Completed Place Winner

Waltham Forest, London

Waltham Forest is growing faster than any other London borough. To support this, £27m of ‘Mini-Holland’ funding and £800,000 (Borough Cycling Programme) from Transport for London is being invested to improve infrastructure and encourage walking and cycling.

2019 Contribution to Place Winner

Smith’s Dock, North Shields

The 30-acre former ship repair yard Smith’s Dock welcomed some of the world’s largest vessels between the 1850s and its closure in the 1980s. The 800-home development (including modular townhouses and apartments) will be built around the three original dock inlets and opens up the coast-to-coast cycle route. Working with the local fishing community, a memorial has been installed for lost men at sea.

2019 Place in Progress Winner

London Dock, London

A total of £1.5bn has been poured into the ongoing transformation of Wapping’s disused dockyards. London Dock will deliver 1,800 homes when completed, and cover more than 15 acres. Aside from historic touches such as the names of spices once carved into the walkways – a nod to goods hauled off the ships – the main feature of London Dock is its openness. The dockside flows into gardens, promenades and plazas for workers to eat lunch and families to play. Pennington Warehouse is now a creative stu

2019 Place in Progress Winner