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Project • By FORMstudio • Housing
Walcot Square mews
FORMstudio’s terrace of five ingeniously planned two-storey + basement split-level houses and a detached ‘garden house’ on a brownfield site of post-war garages and an adjacent land-locked walled garden in Kennington, London was commissioned by The Walcot Foundation, which exists for the relief of poverty through charitable donations.
Peter Cook
Sandwiched between a grand terrace of Georgian houses to the west and Victorian terraces to the east, the site presented significant challenges for redevelopment including its historic Conservation Area context, extensive root protection zones of existing trees, ground contamination and overlooking.
Peter Cook
The brief was to maximise the rental potential of the site a... More
News • News • 2 Aug 2023
Bindloss Dawes bring light and volume to a remodeled Chelsea mews house
In London’s upmarket Chelsea neighborhood, British architectural studio Bindloss Dawes has completed the remodeling of a compact mews house. The home’s original dark and cramped spaces have been replaced and revitalized with light and volume introduced throughout its interior.
Nick Dearden / Building Narratives
The London mews house is especially peculiar to the city’s affluent boroughs. The one-time stables and servants’ quarters of large mansion properties, mews houses are much sought-after homes. Prized for their quaint and hidden side road locations, they are typically separate from, but easily accessible to, the capital’s urban core.
Nick Dearden / Building Narratives
Initially, the own... More