These are two of five projects undertaken for Tower Hamlets to provide new housing on sites across the borough, comprising 135 affordable homes on infill sites within existing estates.

Pyrus House and Chris Braithwaite House in Mile End provide 50 affordable flats for social rent overlooking the Regent’s Canal. The two buildings ‘bookend’ the Locksley Estate in facetted forms that optimise use of the complex brownfield sites. The buildings are designed as a pair with an architectural treatment that deliberately acknowledges the industrial heritage of local canal and railway structures.