We are proud 81-87 Weston Street has scooped up yet another award last week at The Sunday Times British Homes Awards. “Thoughtful, well considered and generous” – that was how the judging panel summed up the mansion block development on a pocket site in Southwark. “Developer Solidspace’s approach is to arrange the social spaces of homes over half levels on either side of a double height space to create flexible living arrangements. For this project, two staggered blocks give every apartment a split section and a dual aspect. Externally, the scheme reflects its local context and internal spaces.” … Read more

We are delighted the second edition of Shouldn’t we all be developers has been published and is available to buy via  RIBA Booshops and Amazon now. The book articulates Roger Zogolovitch’s vision for recognition of the independent and creative developer playing their part to generate supply of new homes in the UK and beyond to meet population demand. Housing as a human right is the premise.
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“Few of London’s new apartment blocks are as thoughtfully created as 81–87 Weston Street in Southwark.” says Amy Bradford in a full feature on Weston Street project in this month’s Elle Decoration. “It takes time, and a lot of convincing people to build with imagination and character” says Roger Zogolovitch, Solidspace chairman.
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We are proud 81-87 Weston Street has received the  RIBA National Award. The awards party was opened by RIBA President Ben Derbyshire at Serpentine pavilion last week. The judges statement notes “this project has a sense of fun providing an alternative model for fluid space living across split levels for the modern home.” The RIBA National Awards are given to buildings across the UK recognised as significant contributions to architecture. Photo: courtesy of RIBA.
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We are delighted Weston Street has received the prestigious Housing Design Award in completed projects category. The Housing Design Award is the only award promoted by all 5 major professional institutions – RICS, RIBA, RTPI, Landscape Institute and Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologies.
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Solidspace chairman Roger Zogolovitch and AHMM Architects Director Simon Allford will discuss 81-87 Weston Street, a contemporary mansion block designed for 21st century living at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
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Open City’s Rory Olcayto with Solidspace chairman Roger Zogolovitch discussed the making of Weston Street inside this new development as a model for a 21st Century mansion block. The event titled ‘Distinction, character and community: the making of a 21st century mansion block’ explored diversity, character and joy that new housing should bring to our day to day lives in the city. The event was part of Open City Green Sky Thinking – a programme of events exploring ‘honest lessons learned’ from the capital’s best sustainable city-making projects.
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We are delighted our latest development 81-87 Weston Street won the RIBA Regional Award. “These are exquisitely crafted modern homes. A tactile choice of materials are used coupled with beautiful interior detailing…The occupants we met enthusiastically told us about their home while the architect and client proudly showed us around. This project has a sense of fun providing an alternative model for fluid space living across split levels for the modern home.” – said the RIBA awards judges at last night’s ceremony which took place at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. … Read more

“[Weston Street] seeks a new model for living by referencing the successes of the past, both emotive and spatial, while accommodating contemporary patterns of behaviour.” writes Mary Duggan in Architecture Today.
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“…for future generations there are features here that will surely epitomise the concrete of our time” writes Tony Whitehead in the latest Concrete Quarterly including a full feature on 81-87 Weston Street, which has been constructed using in-situ concrete frame with exposed plank-marked concrete walls internally.
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Lee Mallett writes the Evening Standard feature on modern mansion blocks in London featuring Weston Street as a case study. In the article, Roger Zogolovitch describes Solidspace approach to gap sites: “We’re building in the city’s ‘holes’. It’s a much richer challenge and the mansion block offers distinction and character that is missing from apartment blocks. The enjoyment of living in the spaces we’ve created is very different to conventional apartments.” Mansion blocks are mid-rise homes that foster community in well-designed spaces.
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Francesca Perry critically reviews Weston Street in Blueprint 357  and concludes “To live here is not to live in an Identikit luxury glass tower; the apartments feel like true homes rather than investment showrooms, with the experiential quality of inhabiting them carefully thought through in the design. ‘Roger and his team wanted to build things in a particular way – where trades become crafts,’ adds Allford. ‘This is slow architecture, but it pays over time.’ “
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