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Byker Redevelopment
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Byker Redevelopment
1968-1982

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Apartment Housing
  • Housing and Community Facilities
  • Housing Development
  • Infrastructure
  • Multi-family Housing
  • Terrace Housing
  • Walls
  • Worker Housing
  • Test

11 Byker was one of the first major attempts in Britain to create a dialogue between community and architecture. Erskine oversaw the development of this famous project allowing for tenant cooperation and architectural innovation on a large scale to provide housing protected from motorway noise and the rebuilding of a whole estate near the city centre. Perimeter block (3-room units on two levels accessed by outer galleries, low-rise link (5-room units on two levels with 2-room units above), low-rise terrace housing (5-room row housing units with garden at ground level both sides); 19% housing

Project Leads

  • Vernon Gracie
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan District Housing Committee

Organizations

  • Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan District Housing Committee
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan District Housing Committee
  • James Corner Field Operations

Stages

  • Design Development

Site

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Typology

Perimeter block

Land use type

SUB-TYPOLOGY : mixed-use

Size

200 acres (81 hectares)

Population/density

6,300, 237 people/hectare (100 people/acre)

Community Infrastructure

  • Baths
  • Churches
  • Clubs
  • Community Center
  • Geriatric Units
  • Library
  • Schools
  • Social Facilities
  • YWCA

Timeline

1968-2022

People

Awards

Veronica Rudge Green Prize

1988

Its innovative and visionary design has earned it many awards notably the Civic Trust Award, the Eternit Award, the Ambrose Congreve Award for Housing (in 1980) and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design from Harvard University

Jury

Peter G. RoweJury Chairman
Jose Rafael MoneoJuror
Laurie D. OlinJuror
Ada Louise HuxtableJuror

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