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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2026

Strategy

Design Principles for Socially Adaptable Housing & Built case-study START-Ivry, Greater Paris, for SOGEPROM Realisations with STAR strategies + architecture

The project proposes a research-driven approach to housing that truly adapts to people’s lives. Based on STAR’s extensive study of contemporary households and their evolving needs, it challenges standardised housing that often fails to fit diverse realities. The Design Principles are materialised in START-Ivry, an avant-garde collective housing pilot project demonstrating flexible dwellings that respond to evolving household needs while remaining economically and technically feasible.

Thames Road Vision and Design Code SPD, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for Be First and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham with PRD, Urban Flow, BBUK and Arup

Thames Road SPD is our flagship example of team-led, cross-sector regeneration. It has redefined how the borough plans for future growth. Our teams have embedded net zero goals into development management, created digital planning tools for residents and strengthened how we collaborate with health, education and infrastructure partners. We are not just coordinating departments. We are one team. That allows us to act quickly, think strategically and deliver consistently.

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All to play for: How to design child friendly housing by Dinah Bornat with ZCD Architects for RIBA Publishing

All to Play For confronts housing policy’;s fundamental failure to consider children, who comprise over 20% of our population yet remain consistently ignored in design decisions. This book transforms a decade of participatory research into practical guidance for creating child-friendly neighbourhoods. Through measurable principles and meaningful engagement, it gives architects, developers, and policymakers evidence-based tools for designing homes that support play, safety, and belonging. A

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A Way Back Home - A Strategic Approach to Tackling the Temporary Housing Crisis with Temporary Modular Housing, London Borough of Havering for Wates Residential with RCKa Architects, Design 4 Structures, Rollalong, Strata, LDN collective, AY, HTA Design a

A Way Back Home demonstrates a new strategy for tackling homelessness through relocatable, high-quality modular homes.It translates policy ambition into a deliverable, affordable and circular housing model. The demonstration, exhibited across London, provides the framework for councils to deploy energy-efficient homes within a year, achieving permanent housing standards with 40% lower embodied carbon and up to £63,500 annual savings in social cost.

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Sunniside Place Strategy, Sunderland for Sunderland City Council with TOWN and Create Streets

The Sunniside Place Strategy is a strategy and 10-year action plan to repopulate and reactivate Sunniside. Taking an ‘all hands-on deck’ partnership approach to overcoming a long period of complex challenges and market failure, the project is creating a liveable city neighbourhood within Sunderland’s City Centre that nurtures diversity, enterprise and creativity. As the first new homes are emerging, businesses move on to the high street, and people are describing themselves as Sunnisiders.

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Newport Placemaking Plan for Newport City Council, Welsh Government and the people of Newport with Stride Treglown and Cowshed

Newport Placemaking Plan is an exciting collaboration where local voices are helping shape a revitalised city centre. As part of Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns Programme, the Plan reflects the people of Newport’s vision to create a thriving, welcoming centre that builds on the city’s rich history. It sets out to build on strong foundations, celebrate what’s good, and address what needs attention.

2026 Strategy Winner

Hackney Central Town Centre Strategy, London Borough of Hackney for the London Borough of Hackney with We Made That, PRD, Maayan Ashkenazi, Authentic Futures and Stockdale

Hackney Central is changing, and through this change it’s crucial to ensure that the town centre remains a place for everyone. To make Hackney Central fairer, safer, and more sustainable, this strategy lays out a vision and delivery plan to steer the next 10 years. The process revealed that effective place-based strategies must simultaneously address inequality and climate change rather than treating them as separate challenges.

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