Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Mixed Use · Urban School Stacked With Housing · Temperate · 2021

A hybrid building combining a three-storey 350-pupil primary school with an eleven-storey block of 68 below-market flats and ground-floor retail on a tight Hackney site. Stacking housing above the school frees ground space for play. A red brick and red precast-concrete palette unifies the two typologies. It was shortlisted for the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Innovation highlights

• School and housing fused on one constrained site
• Cross-subsidy of school land by residential development
• Cloister/courtyard school plan freeing play space
• Unified red brick and pigmented precast concrete

Innovations in the catalogue

• Vertical Stacking of School and Housing
• Cloistered Courtyard School Plan
• Pigmented Precast Concrete With Natural Aggregate

Client / Developer

London Borough of Hackney / Dolphin Living

Architect

Henley Halebrown

Type

Urban school stacked with housing

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