Panter Hudspith Architects creates "contemporary vernacular" for Orchard Gardens housing

UK studio Panter Hudspith Architects has created a city block of housing in London's Elephant and Castle, which is shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize.
Built on Walworth Road as part of the redevelopment of the Heygate Estate in the Elephant and Castle area in south London, Orchard Gardens was designed to be a new urban block combining housing and shops.
Orchard Gardens contains four connected blocks
"The project was conceived as a group of buildings that could continue the buil