Medway Street

Client: Wellsborough Developments

Date: 2004-present

Proposed Use: Residential / retail / café

Former Use: Pub

Gross Area: 1,622 sq.m

Accommodation: 14 flats, ground floor retail / café

Construction Value: £2.5m

This small scheme is for a former pub site next to the old DoE Marsham St buildings, now occupied by a new headquarters for the Home Office by Terry Farrell. The design does not try to compete with the scale or language of this context, but instead offers a discreet, subtle, but still contemporary piece of urban infill that develops ideas from the practice's other work in Westminster.

The red-brown brick used on the façade has been chosen to blend in with the surrounding Conservation Area, but is used with deep reveals and floor to ceiling windows that emphasise the vertical rhythm of the street. .

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