Right: Banksy graffiti. Photo: Martin Hartmann. Some other west London older architecture to visit. The more historic tends to be themed and packaged, so you have fight to get to the architecture itself: • Hampton Court Palace, East Moseley, 1514-1882. Former royal palace; large complex including work by Wren and William Kent. Train to Hampton […]
Category: Londos’s Contemporary Architecture
Stockley Park: sanitised arcadia
Stockley is a successful ‘80’s business park on the northern edge of Heathrow. DEGW did the research and briefing; Arup Associates were the master planners and the architects for many of the early buildings in a place where issues of typology loom large within an equation of two-storey development and 25% ground coverage. SOM have […]
BedZed
They’re not much greener than this in 2002 and there still isn’t: an impressive ‘zero-energy’ development on a ‘brownfield’ site (a former sewage works), providing 82 dwellings in a mix of flats, maisonettes and ‘town houses’, plus 2500 sq. m. of workspace and community accommodation, including a health centre, cafe, nursery, etc. (Density is 187 […]
Understatement in Wandsworth
This is a 1930’s paint factory refurbished and extended to provide a mixed use development comprising apartments, a health centre and light industrial units. Located behind a large shopping centre and on a small river that leads into the Thames, the mixed-use development is a refreshing addition to the area and comes from architects excited […]
Arthur Road House
Pawson’s house is a delightful, robust addition to just another inter-war London surburbia of semi-d’s — truly an ‘ornament’ to Wimbledon. He makes the most of the narrow, sloping site and provides a fitting end to the street and a most elegant plan (which he describes, enigmatically, as ‘a modern reworking of Sir John Soane’s […]