Vincent
Street, London
Client: Notting Hill Homeownership and Ujima Housing Association
Date: 1997-2002
Proposed Use: Residential
Former Use: Redundant Offices
Gross Area: 4800 m2
Accommodation: 49 apartments, ambulance station
Construction Value: £3 million
This section of the former British Gas Site situated in Westminster
has been converted into 49 affordable apartments. The scheme also
includes a cultivated landscape and Ambulance Station.
Extensive research into the history of the site influenced the design
concept and pays respect to a century-old axis that runs from the
Tate Gallery up through the centre of the scheme.