Peter Barber wins 2022 Soane Medal for architecture
British architect Peter Barber has been revealed as this year's winner of the Soane Medal for having "devoted his life" to helping to resolve the UK's housing crisis. More
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RIBA reveals UK's three best affordable housing schemes
Three housing projects have been shortlisted for RIBA's 2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing including a hybrid scheme in east London encompassing a primary school by Henley Halebrown. More
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Homeless housing is "a Band-Aid" for UK shortages says Peter Barber
Architects should use their influence to help bring an end to London's homelessness crisis, said housing specialist Peter Barber in an exclusive interview with Dezeen, but admits his projects are "just scratching the surface" of the problem. More
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Peter Barber Architects revamps and densifies London social housing estate
Peter Barber Architects has rejuvenated the post-war Kiln Place social housing estate in London and created 15 new homes. More
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Peter Barber Architects' "intelligent, dynamic and original" McGrath Road named UK's best affordable housing scheme
The McGrath Road housing project by Peter Barber Architects in east London has won this year's RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021. More
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Peter Barber Architects creates terrace of social housing on "undevelopable" London site
London studio Peter Barber Architects has created a terrace of social housing for Greenwich council on a tight site in south London that was previously occupied by garages. More
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Peter Barber Architects adds terraced houses to estate in south London
Peter Barber Architects has created six terraces of brick housing in Charlton, south London, for Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start. More
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Peter Barber Architects creates five terraces of affordable homes in Greenwich
Peter Barber Architects has created a development of brick housing and a microbrewery at Rochester Way in the London Borough of Greenwich. More
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The left "fetishises council housing with the same conviction as the right fetishises traditional styles"
We should be applauding social housing projects, but resist the rhetoric that sees council housing as the only solution to the housing crisis, says Owen Hopkins. More
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Peter Barber Architects creates terraced tenement block in Peckham
Peter Barber Architects has built a tenement-style housing block at 95 Peckham Road in London that steps back from the street to create numerous, south-facing roof terraces. More
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Peter Barber Architects reinterprets Victorian back-to-back housing in London
Peter Barber Architects has arranged a block of 26 shared-ownership homes around a central courtyard in Stratford, London. More
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Peter Barber is designing a city every day for a year
London-based architect Peter Barber is developing 365 urban masterplans, in a project called One Year 365 Cities, to prove that it should be possible "to design a city in 10 minutes". More
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Peter Barber Architects uses oriel windows to animate the facades of Moray Mews houses
Peter Barber Architects has completed a terrace of mews houses in north London, which are arranged along a cobbled lane and feature oriel windows that cantilever out from their reclaimed-brick facades. More
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Peter Barber creates "cosy" brick arches for London housing scheme
Peter Barber Architects has completed a row of terraced houses in London's Stratford, featuring a monolithic brick facade punctuated by recessed arches and balconies. More
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Peter Barber Architects completes supermarket and housing complex in London's Colindale
Turrets, setbacks and balconies in an assortment of sizes help to break up the large mass of this housing and supermarket complex in north London by Peter Barber Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Peter Barber uses a "collage of materials" in hostel for homeless people
London office Peter Barber Architects has remodelled a Victorian sheltered housing scheme in the city, employing different types of brick and render to indicate where new additions meet the original buildings. More
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Employment Academy by Peter Barber Architects
London studio Peter Barber Architects has added an L-shaped wing to an Arts & Crafts-style building in south-east London to create an advice and training centre for unemployed people (+ slideshow). More
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Hannibal Road Gardens by Peter Barber Architects
This terrace of eight houses by Peter Barber Architects is clad with timber shingles to match the neighbouring fences and sheds of a housing estate in east London (+ slideshow). More
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Redbridge Welcome Centre by Peter Barber Architects
Slideshow: London studio Peter Barber Architects has completed a centre for drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Ilford, northeast London. More
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Fleet Street Hill by Peter Barber Architects
Peter Barber Architects have produced these drawings as part of a planning application for 25 terraced family houses in London's East End. More
