Solidspace and AHMM take urban living to a new level with Weston Street
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Weston Street, the new residential development by forward-thinking property specialists Solidspace and award-winning architecture firm AHMM, has a special place in developer Roger Zogolovitch’s heart. Not only is this modern boutique apartment complex the culmination of years of discussion, research and development, but it also occupies the site of an old warehouse building, which once functioned as his office. On top of this, the building occupies a tricky infill site in central London.
‘[The site] demonstrates how an imaginative engagement with the fixed constraints of the gap site has become the driver of this project’, says Zogolovitch. ‘It plays on memory of this particular location in the city, while offering a new vision of living to its residents. It is a tribute to a long lasting creative collaboration with Simon and our wider team.’
‘It is a tale of “slow architecture”. Of ideas arriving in searching conversations over many years of ‘breakfasting with Roger Zog’. But slow architecture pays with the production of a crafted urban palazzo, part Milanese but rooted in Bermondsey’, adds AHMM’s Simon Alford.
The result was a brand new mixed-use, mid-rise building that includes eight airy and light filled apartments and a commercial element on the ground level, which will become office space. Each residence has outside space in the form of either a terrace, or a sleek balcony jutting out of the building’s brick clad volume. The project, which is based in Southwark, near London Bridge, is covered in a sophisticated, hand-finished Wienerberger bricks in a light, creamy-grey tone.
Inside, the apartments are immaculately detailed, generous and welcoming, sporting a combination of warm timber cladding (finished in either oak or walnut), cabinetry and floors, and raw, poured in situ concrete. The modern interior also features Solidspace’s signature split-level spaces, which result in double-height living areas, all linked together by a central circulation core. Each apartment is different, but they all share these key common features, as well as large openings and skylights that flood the interior with light.
The dual aspect apartments range from two to three bedrooms, spread generously across the complex’s sculpturally cascading form. They interlock vertically and horizontally within the design, using communal stairs and two separate entrances each. Owners can specify their own finishes, as well as choose from existing options, making this development as flexible as it is modern and practical; a perfect haven of contemporary urban living.
The project is a boutique development of eight multi-level residences
The mixed-use, mid-rise building in London's Southwark also includes office space on the ground floor.
Clad in light-coloured brick, the complex references the area's architecture, while lending the project a contemporary feel.
Inside, the apartments make use of Solidspace's signature split level, bright and airy interiors.
There are two- and three-bedroom apartments on offer, all clad in warm timber
Sleek balconies project out of the modern facade; they are large enough for residents to be able to comfortably sit out and enjoy a warm day
The apartments are all dual aspect and 'prioritise volume, light and character', explains the developer.
Wood is complemented by raw concrete and timber and anodised aluminium framed windows in a contemporary interior
Each apartment is different, but they all feature a central circulation core that unites all levels
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For more information visit the Solidspace website and the AHMM website (opens in new tab)
Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture Editor at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020).
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