Project showcase

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2023

Climate Resilience

The Sustainable Terrace House, London – Research proposal by Jonathan Tuckey Design

This research project is a provocation that reimagines and retrofits the ubiquitous London terraced house, retaining the front elevations, insulating, double glazing and adding an upper extension made of cork as a ‘warm hat’. The Sustainable Terrace House also includes communal gardens, pedestrianised zones and new planting schemes to enhance community

Winner of Climate Resilience - The Pineapples Awards 2023

PlanBee - Creating a resilient Garden Estate on Lancaster West Estate, Kensington & Chelsea – Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team

Climate change and the cost of living are two of the biggest challenges facing Londoners today. Plan Bee, initiated in 2018, has sought to address these issues together, improving access to shade, enhancing biodiversity and creating new community spaces where residents can grow and harvest their own food

Winner of Climate Resilience - The Pineapples Awards 2023

2023 Climate Resilience Winner

The Going Green Masterplan, Birmingham – Colmore and Retail BIDs, Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP with Broadway Malyan

The Going Green report aims to reshape and reimagine Birmingham’s business district and reclaim it from the motor car, creating an environment that puts pedestrians and cyclists first and sustainability at its heart. A key aim of this project is to tackle air and noise pollution, climate change, inactivity, diet and lack of access to green spaces

2023 Climate Resilience

Moulsecoomb Primary School Rainscape, Brighton – The Aquifer Partnership with Robert Bray Associates Ltd

The Aquifer Partnership (TAP) partnered with Moulsecoomb Primary School to renovate a courtyard space into a beautiful, water-friendly, SuDS garden with emphasis on education and play opportunities. TAP was established to protect and improve the quality of groundwater in the Brighton Chalk Block as a valuable natural resource

2023 Climate Resilience

Cults Burn Park, Countesswells, Aberdeen – Countesswells Development Ltd with Optimised Environments Ltd (OPEN)

Intended as a ‘green lung’ to promote health and wellbeing for new residents, Cults Burn Park sits within the first phase of the new community of Countesswells to the west of Aberdeen. One of four parks, the plantings already include a community orchard, 600 trees, 25,000 plants and 34 species of native wildflower

2023 Climate Resilience

Grosvenor Biodiversity Strategy, UK-wide – Grosvenor Property UK with Greengage Environmental

In 2022, Grosvenor developed a strategy with Greengage Environmental that sets evidence-based, measurable targets for the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain across existing assets and future developments that go above and beyond compliance with emerging legislation. The strategy targets biodiversity uplifts on new and existing assets via Green Infrastructure retrofits, which the formal mandate will not cover

2023 Climate Resilience