De Beauvoir Block

Hackney, London

2015–2017


Project architect for Henley Halebrown

These six Victorian warehouses are used primarily as studios and offices. They offer well-proportioned daylit spaces with a strong character borne out of their industrial past. The scheme treats the roof of these warehouses as a landscape in microcosm on which are to be constructed a series of small prefabricated studios.

• RIBA London Award
• Architects' Journal Retrofit Award
• Civic Trust Award
• Hackney Design Award

Value: £5,000,000

Client: The Benyon Estate

GIA – additional: 815m², existing: 5,745m²

Photos by Nick Kane and David Grandorge


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