Castle Lane London 2011–

The adaptive reuse of these four blocks creates 88 affordable homes and forms part of Landsec's redevelopment of Victoria Street. The design works with the buildings’ loadbearing internal walls to achieve the required mix with minimal structural alteration.

These “Unlisted Buildings of Merit” are in Westminster’s Birdcage Walk Conservation Area.

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    Constructed in the 1880s for the Stag Brewery, the buildings are late examples of purpose built working class housing. A mews building was added in 1991. Most recently they were used as hostel accommodation.
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    The facades of the roof extension provide large expanses of floor to ceiling glazing.
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    The restored entrances invite socialising
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    The new precast elements mimic the original buildings’ stringcourse and cornice designs.
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    Ground floor plan
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    Lower ground floor
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    Community gardens on the lower ground floor
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    The North block was reworked with access provided by land sculpting, along with an external lift and decks
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    The design references the industrial heritage of the brewery with robust steelwork hung on slender tension rods from the new roof structure installed to take the new extensions
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    Loggias providing individual entrances to flats

Technical

  • Appointment: 2011
  • Construction start: 2015
  • Area: 5700m2
  • Budget: £22m
  • Form of contract: Design & Build
  • Client: Landsec
  • Services Engineer: Chapman & BDSP
  • Structural Engineer: Clarke Nicholls & Marcell
  • Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership
  • Landscape Architect: Plincke
  • Planning Consultant: Gerald Eve
  • Heritage Consultants: Montague Evans
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