Client: Concord London
Sector: Mixed use
Area: 250,000 sqft
Value: £125m
Status: Completed 2023
“The architects have responded imaginatively to all the different constraints of the site, producing a design that will genuinely enhance the character and appearance of the area”
– English Heritage, February 2015
The redevelopment of this entire city block provides 79 private and affordable apartments, together with retail, restaurants and community facilities to all 4 streets, and public car parking in the basement.
The greatly improved public realm provides active shop frontages, wider streets and a new home for the weekly Marylebone Farmers’ Market.
Internally, it is a building without corridors - all the apartments are reached via a beautiful central courtyard. The apartments themselves are meticulously planned, each one enjoying a large verandah and generously proportioned rooms.
The concrete structure is clad in a distinctive and robust glazed ceramic facade, with cast aluminium balustrades adding to the richness of the detail. The architecture fits in with its Marylebone setting whilst being uncompromisingly contemporary.