Housing designed to combat loneliness wins top architecture award
Samantha Fletcher
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Amazing to see this, hopefully it will lead to more. Appleby Blue Almshouse, which provides affordable flats for over-65s in Southwark, south London, has won this year's Royal Institute of British Architects' (Riba) Stirling Prize.
The complex, in Bermondsey, has 59 flats plus communal facilities, including a roof garden, courtyard and community kitchen.
The Stirling Prize judges said it "sets an ambitious standard for social housing among older people".
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