Another Barber design — a precursor of success with the larger schemes shown overleaf (designed with marion Lewis). The architect tells us that: “Doris’ Place is an ultra-dense mixed use urban regeneration project on a 4.5m wide slot site in Hackney. The project wraps a retail unit, two maisonettes and a live/work unit around a […]
Category: Londos’s Contemporary Architecture
Inner Ring Two from Barber
Peter Barber’s work has begun to make an impact, particularly in these prize-winning designs for East End areas where everyone is seeking to concentrate housing activity, Contexturalism — certainly in formal terms — is given two fingers and a breath of Mediterranean bloom (prompted, in part, by the UK’s current building Regulations) has been dropped […]
Inner Ring Pumping Station ‘F’
The Lee Valley is not the most attractive part of London, but it does possess a curious, post-industrial authenticity. Here sits a gleaming aluminium beast: the enclosure to hi-tech pumping machinery that deals with some of London’s prodigious waste: a large industrial barn, some 57m long, 29m wide and 23m. high — a gleaming enclosure […]
Stratford Circus
A successful project conjoins many things together. To isolate any one would be unjust. And yet the design of this building is clearly a major part of what makes the Circus such a lively and valuable community resource (much like Peckham Library). The Circus’ programme is focused upon the performing arts, on schools and out-reach […]
Queen Mary College
І Queen Mary College has a number of interesting buildings on its campus, including the Westfield student accommodation by Feilden Clegg Bradley (2004); a student Union building 1999) by Hawkins Brown; a science building by Sheppard Robson; and a Library by Colin St. John Wilson (1989; Wilson also did the British Library); student housing to […]