Karakusevic Carson Architects

We’re looking for new collaborators to help us think through how we make places more #sociallysustainable and attuned to #everylife. So it was really good to speak to a practice whose work we appreciate. Thank you Karakusevic Carson Architects for the invitation to share our work.

“What does best practice for architects look like when it comes to designing social housing?”, an article written by Neal Morris for RIBA’s Foundations for the Future report, a new social housing report which provides an opportunity to reflect on best practice in this important sector. * In this interview Paul Karakusevic talks about where the housing debate stands today, solutions for the high-density challenge and the importance of empowering the local community voice. * You can read the full text from here: https://lnkd.in/eY-gXTFQ

British architects Allies and Morrison, Alison Brooks, and Karakusevic Carson Architects are poised to leave a transformative mark on Canada’s largest city. #toronto #architecture #urbanplanning #azuremagazine

Somers Orchard, Horatia and Leamington Houses Site achieves planning approval Pleased to share that our scheme Somers Orchard located in Somerstown in Portsmouth, Hampshire has achieved planning. The project is an ambitious and pioneering community-led renewal of the estate that previously housed the two structurally unsound, 1960s high-rise buildings, Horatia House and Leamington House. The development will provide 566 mixed tenure homes alongside wider public realm improvements which will meaningfully repair the urban fabric and reconnect the neighbourhood to its surroundings. The site borders King Street Conservation Area to the south and the Terraces Conservation Area to the northwest, both of which showcase original Victorian and Georgian character. Placemaking, amenity and diverse uses have been developed through inclusive community engagement that seeks to enhance the existing social infrastructure and stimulate a local jobs economy through inclusion of affordable workspace, retail units and spaces for community use. Link to project > https://lnkd.in/e9WYQ-en Design Team Multidisciplinary Lead / Project Management - Karakusevic Carson Architects Architect / Masterplanning - Karakusevic Carson Architects Landscape and public realm - Studio ONB Studio ONB Planning - jennifer Ross Cost / Viability – Arcadis Structures / Transport / Sustainability / Geotechnical - Ridge and Partners LLP M&E / Environmental /  Sustainability / Acoustics  - XCO2 Passivhaus - Inside Outside Engineering, Collective Energy Bertie Dixon Civils - Lewis Hubbard Fire engineer - BB7 Lighting - Light Follows Behaviour Accessibility - David Bonnett Associates Arboriculturalist - Landmark Trees Ecology - Temple Health Impact - Volterra Partners LLP Heritage - Gareth Jones Waste - Velocity

Planning approved for Hereford House and Exeter Court Pleased to share that our ambitious redevelopment to transform part of a neighbourhood in South Kilburn, London Borough of Brent has received planning approval. Hereford and Exeter is a collection of five buildings of different types and scales. The project represents Phase 3B of a plan for 2,500 homes, adopted by Brent Council that reworks a set of 1960s system-built estates over eight phases. In this process, the postwar blocks are replaced by denser forms to provide more council homes, 52% of which are for social rent. Design Team Civils Lewis Hubbard Engineering Landscape #periscope Lead architect and masterplanner Karakusevic Carson Architects M&E Max Fordham LLP Planning Tibbalds Structures Momentum Structural Engineers Link to project – https://lnkd.in/eWvSsFRP

“A new era for public housing and landscape-led urbanism”, an article written by Paul Karakusevic and Abigail Batchelor for the spring issue of Landscape – The Journal of the Landscape Institute magazine. * This short essay investigates the importance of the public realm and the creative collaboration with landscape architects when working on public housing estates. With residents’ health and wellbeing being a priority for the communities we work within, the landscape and ecology around public and social housing has never been more important. * You can read the full text from here: https://lnkd.in/eBaGUBxB

Kieren Majhail joins the Design Council Expert network. • The Design Council Experts is a network of design pioneers who work with the Design Council to advocate for design, share knowledge about best practice and help deliver advice and programmes. Experts will be committing their time, knowledge and leadership to the design industry, to help drive it towards a regenerative future, and champion the value of design. The cohort was selected by Design Council colleagues and an external steering committee to represent a full spectrum of design disciplines, regional and demographic diversity, and skills that will help accelerate Design for Planet mission. • To find out more: https://lnkd.in/eCYWwwAk • 📸 @agnesesanvito • https://lnkd.in/eDBpGYxb

Paul appointed Social Medicine Housing Fellow at the University Health Network in Toronto Paul Karakusevic has been appointed as a fellow for the inaugural Social Medicine Housing Fellowship programme at the UHN’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, – University Health Network in Toronto. UHN’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine recognises the housing crisis as a bonafide health crisis and is engaging international experts in various domains to help inform health policy strategies and partnerships to advance housing access as a social determinant of health. This marks the first time the largest academic health sciences network in Canada will have global experts working alongside the Centre’s Lived Experience Advisory Council to advocate, expand and explore more social housing options for UHN’s highest needs patients who are unhoused.   The inaugural cohort of Social Medicine Housing Fellows underscores how undeniable the pathologies of poverty are for tens of thousands of patients. In addition to the Social Medicine Housing Initiative at 90 Dunn Avenue — set to open this summer for UHN patients – the arrival of the Social Medicine Housing Fellows furthers the Gattuso Centre’s commitment to implementing and scaling housing and health interventions. The evidence is clear, the human toll of homelessness is immense. A recent Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) editorial lead authored by Andrew Boozary MD MPP underscored the homelessness crisis as a public health crisis that warrants meaningful action by health care networks across the country. “We know that housing and health are inextricably linked. Without a secure place to call home, individuals face increased risks of chronic illnesses, mental health issues, and premature death. People who are unhoused live half as long as the general public. Through the Social Medicine Housing Fellows program, we aim to better address these disparities by advocating for more housing solutions and integrating them as a form of health care,” says Dr. Andrew Boozary, founding Executive Director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine. The UHN Social Medicine Housing Fellowship is about partnering beyond hospital walls, advancing unconventional solutions, and creating more opportunities to improve health outcomes for the patients and communities we serve. Paul will be working alongside other Fellows, Global Director of THE SHIFT, Leilani Farha and Canadian Architect and Principal from Omar Gandhi Architects, Omar Gandhi https://lnkd.in/ec-SpfP2

The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2024 – Architecture Room, features two recent pieces from the studio: “St. Raphael’s Community Centre: from the Workbench” (Images 1 & 2) This process model and explorative test piece from our workshop space serves as a study of texture, material and technique for the Community Hub at the St. Raphael’s Estate in Brent. The model showcases a variety of casting and fabrication techniques, including concrete, plaster and Jesmonite. “The Selby Centre: Community co-design through sketching” (Images 3 & 4) Also selected for the exhibition, is a bound collection of hand drawn sketches by Sohanna Srinivasan created during the development of the brief and outline scheme for the Selby Centre in Tottenham. Curated by the multi-disciplinary collective, Assemble, this year’s open call asked for reflections on ‘Spaces for Making’, “inviting pieces that focus on and reflect on making as a process and on buildings which provide environments for creative working”. 

Join our field trip to find out how the architects of an award-winning housing project created healthier homes for Hackney residents. Karakusevic Carson Architects will lead a tour of their award-winning Kings Crescent scheme. They will talk about designing healthier, sustainable homes with the local community. We'll focus on the new build aspect of this development, with insight from post-occupancy evaluation. This field trip is the second event in this year’s Health and Housing Impact Network programme, which is supported by Impact on Urban Health. We will explore the decisions needed to ensure the best possible outcomes for residents. We are also bringing together representatives from the council’s housing and public health teams with the engineering consultants for a frank discussion about the challenges of aligning housing, health and environmental priorities. Confirmed Speakers >> Rachel Bagenal, Assistant Director, Housing Regeneration and Delivery, London Borough of Hackney >> Dr Donna Doherty-Kelly, Principal Public Health Specialist, City and Hackney Public Health Team >> Caroline Hull, Associate Director, Karakusevic Carson Architects >> Paul Karakusevic, Principal, Karakusevic Carson Architects >> Tom Kordel, Director, XCO2 >> Archika Kumar, Head of Estate Regeneration, Brent Council and former Kings Crescent Project Manager. >> Kings Crescent resident (tbc) Tuesday 9 July 2024, 9.30am to 1pm Hackney: meeting place tbc Register now: https://lnkd.in/eqncmE7G Image: Kings Crescent Estate, courtesy of Karakusevic Carson Architects #FutureOfLondon #HealthAndHousingImpactNetwork