Project showcase

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2026

Community Engagement: Homes

Designing for Dignity: Co-creation of sheltered housing environments, Edinburgh for the City of Edinburgh Council with AtkinsRéalis

Landscape and environment play a crucial role in sheltered housing by enhancing well-being, fostering community, and improving the overall quality of life for residents. The Landscape led AtkinsRéalis multi-disciplinary design team has been working with The City of Edinburgh’s Housing & Homelessness team, delivering multiple environmental improvement projects within several council owned sheltered and social housing estates across Edinburgh.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes

Tustin Estate, London Borough of Southwark for Bouygues UK and Southwark Council with dRMM, Adam Khan Architects, JA Projects, McCloy + Muchemwa, Exterior Architecture and Urban Symbiotics

The regeneration of the 1969 Tustin Estate forms part of Southwark Council’s Great Estates programme. It will deliver 690 new homes (68% affordable) on completion, as well as enhancing central Tustin common and re-providing an existing primary school. dRMM’s masterplan and detailed design has been developed with dialogue and co-design with the community at its heart. Ongoing engagement ensures residents are actively involved in decisions, with feedback remaining integral to design.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes Winner

Barnsbury, London Borough of Islington for Newlon Housing Trust and Mount Anvil

Barnsbury Estate Regeneration, led by Mount Anvil in partnership with Newlon, is transforming the local neighbourhood by delivering high-quality affordable homes, improved public realm and sustainable infrastructure. The project replaces outdated blocks with a mix of new council and affordable homes, alongside community facilities, landscaped open spaces and safer walking routes. Employment, training and local procurement opportunities are prioritised to benefit residents.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes

The Sutton Estate, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for Clarion Housing Group and Durkan with HTA and Wates

The Sutton Dwellings are some of the very earliest examples of homes specifically designed as social housing in the UK. Clarion is continuing William Sutton’s work in Kensington and Chelsea by investing to give these homes another century of public service. Every home is undergoing major upgrades. Four empty blocks, have been refurbished and brought back into use, with the remaining homes are being given major upgrades.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes

Westwick Row, Hemel Hempstead for The Crown Estate and TOWN with Archio, Periscope and David Lock Associates

Westwick Row is a proposed development of 75 homes, co-designed with the local community with input from future renters. The project is exploring innovative community engagement methods and alternative housing models, including collaborative housing and intergenerational living and builds on the spirit of the nearby Hemel Hempstead, a post-war New Town renewing its original promise of community, homes and green space for a new generation.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes

Yorke Drive Regeneration Project, Newark for Newark and Sherwood District Council with Lovell and Compendium Living

The Yorke Drive Regeneration Project will facilitate transformational change across one of the most deprived areas within the district, by Transforming the estate through selective demolition and building new, high quality, mixed tenure homes; thoughtful landscaping & active frontages promote visibility ensuring the community feel secure, deterring entrenched ASB, & instilling a sense of pride.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes Winner

Chrisp Street Market, London Borough of Tower Hamlets for Telford Living and Poplar HARCA with JTP, AND London and Intrepid

With momentum to take a fresh look at the site after previous stalled development plans, Telford Living and Poplar HARCA appointed JTP and place consultants AND London to engage with the community to co-create a new vision for the comprehensive, mixed-use redevelopment of Chrisp Street. A layered process, moving from early conversations and site walkabouts to intensive co-design days, youth workshops, digital engagement and structured report-back events.

2026 Community Engagement: Homes