ARUNDEL SQUARE
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects
ARCHITECTS
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects
PHOTOGRAPHS
PTE Architects
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Knapp Hicks
PROJECT YEAR
2010
LOCATION
London, United Kingdom
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The original Arundel Square was never completed. After three sides were finished the Victorian developer ran out of money and the North London Line was constructed in a cutting on the south side of the central gardens.
In our radical approach we have decked over the railway, creating an extra acre of land. Half of this land has been added to Arundel Square Gardens, and on the remainder we have completed the square with a contemporary six-storey apartment building.
Its layered façade has been designed to harmonise with its surroundings, taking its framed proportions from the brick pilasters and sash windows of the existing houses.
The project creates funds for the regeneration of the public gardens by Islington Council and also for the restoration of an adjacent terrace of 18 houses.
