I went to see Chowdhury Walk, a set of eleven, nearly identical brick terrace houses in an obscure area of East Hackney which has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize. It’s very well done: calm, thoughtful, pared back, slightly sculptural, good use of materials, excellent craft detailing. It’s interesting seeing it in a sea of post-war social housing, much of it apparently reasonably successful. But the type was abandoned in the 1980s so is now having to be reinvented. Its project cost hasn’t been revealed. I would think that the project cost needs to be taken into consideration:-


