The award winner tells us: "200 Becontree Avenue, completed by Archio for BeFirst in Barking, encompasses 19 affordable homes and a community space across two villa-style buildings. This design choice ...

Archio, an AJ 40 under 40 practice, discovered that there were 91 house types developed for the estate, with its new scheme at 200 Becontree representing the 92nd iteration. The garden city principles ...

Archio has submitted proposals for a council-led housing project on a plot next to Barking’s Becontree Estate – the largest housing estate in Europe The 21-home scheme on the Becontree Estate in North ...

By 1921, 4,000 houses had been completed and the first tenants moved into Becontree at the end of that year. Between 1924 and 1930 a further 15,000 houses were built, followed by 7,736 more by 1935 ...