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Front of building
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Rear of Buidling
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Facade Cladding
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Common Stair
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Internal window detail
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Apartment Kitchen and Stairs
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Plan Units 1 and 2
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Sections
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no. one Centaur Street
dRMM Architects - de Rijke Marsh Morgan. London, United Kingdom
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Name of work in English
no. one Centaur Street
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Name of work in original language
no. one Centaur Street
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2005
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Work Location
London, United Kingdom
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Studio
dRMM Architects - de Rijke Marsh Morgan
EUmies Awards 2005 Nominees
Collaborators
Design: Roger Zogolovich (Collaborator for Concept design); Structural engineering: Adams Kara Taylor; Landscape architect: Jennifer Coe; Construction company: Parkway; Quantity surveyor: Measur; Construction manager: White Associates; Design: Michael Spooner dRMM (Principle Designer)
Program
Collective housing
Completion
2003
An apartment building situated less than two meters from the Euro star viaduct may seem unlikely, but Lake Estates commissioned dRMM to design one based on an idea for a new housing typology for brown field sites in London, a hybrid of the European horizontal apartment and the English vertical terrace house. Each apartment enjoys a Raumplan interior organised as a large, open doubleheight living space, interpenetrated by adjacent enclosed bedrooms and stairs, which form a concrete buffer to the railway. Construction consists internally of high exposed concrete economically over clad externally with insulated rain screen. Other than in site concrete, all components are prefabricated, specified form international sources according to dRMM's catalogue design methodology.