Angel Waterside has won the Housing Project of the Year category in the national 2010 Building Awards. The Regent’s Canal through Islington was once one of London’s main arteries, linking the docks with the Grand Junction canal. But for much of the past century it has been more of a backwater, hidden from view behind a series of dilapidated warehouses. The elegant apartments and public spaces of Angel Waterside has breathed new life into the canal’s City Road Basin, and made it a focal point for this part of town.