South Shields
Strood
Union square
Southwark
Silvertown Way
The Castleford Project
Clarence Road
A Vision for Plymouth
Hastings and Bexhill
Hackney
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Images: Keith Colley
Maximising potential on the hardest sites
One Centaur Street is the award-winning infill scheme that was hailed as "one of the best new apartment blocks in Britain, a minor masterpiece that (É) points the way to the kind of compact housing our cities need, but which so many architects and house-builders find difficult to achieve." (Jonathan Glancey - The Guardian) AZ Urban Studio acted as planning consultant and development manager for this small four-apartment scheme, in creative collaboration with the clients and dRMM Architects. The block was carefully inserted onto a former scrap yard site and sandwiched between the main rail-line out of Waterloo and the backs of nearby Victorian terraced houses. Challenging the prevailing on the planning regulations and development logic for such a 'leftover' site, this maximised the potential of an unpromising site. The building won - among others - the 2003 RIBA London Building of the Year Award and the 'Building for Life' Award 2003, awarded by CABE, the House Builders Federation and the Civic Trust. Collaboration with de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects www.drmm.co.uk |
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