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Neave Brown Award for Housing

Neave Brown Award for Housing 2023

The Neave Brown Award for Housing recognises the best new example of affordable housing in the UK

Neave Brown Award for Housing 2023

Named in honour of modernist architect Neave Brown (1929 – 2018), the award recognises the best new examples of affordable housing in the UK.

Neave Brown was a socially motivated, modernist architect, best known for designing a series of celebrated London housing estates. In 2018, he was awarded the UK’s highest honour for architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, which is approved personally by His Majesty The King.

On this year's shortlist RIBA President Simon Allford said:

“At a time when the cost of living is among the most pressing issues of the day, these examples of affordable housing outline possibilities for a better future. We need more homes, that are better designed in terms of amenity, carbon, context, community and culture – we must focus on them all.  

The winner of the 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony on Thursday 19 October 2023 at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester.

See this year's shortlisted projects below.

Neave Brown Award for Housing 2023 jury

The shortlist was selected from the 2023 RIBA Regional Awards winners by an expert panel of judges: This year the judges are:

  • Jury Chair Alice Brownfield, Director at Peter Barber Architects
  • Prisca Thielmann, Associate Director at Maccreanor Lavington
  • Aaron Brown, son of Neave Brown, Design Director at Smith & Brown Ltd.
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