The Alexandra Road Estate — also known as the Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate — is Neave Brown's masterpiece, a dense low-rise social housing scheme in Camden that contains 520 homes in two long terraces stepping down toward a park. Every dwelling has a private outdoor space, and the ground level is entirely pedestrianised. Brown's ambition was to create the density of a tower block without the isolation of vertical living.
The scheme is extraordinary in its consistency of detail: the same board-marked concrete throughout, the same section repeated and varied, the terraces stepping and bridging above the mainline railway that runs beneath them. Grade II* listed since 1993, it was recognised by the Stirling Prize committee in 2018 when Neave Brown received a special award for lifetime achievement. One of the great unbuilt cities of postwar British architecture.