Solidspace is leading a campaign to unlock more of the small sites which are overlooked by volume housebuilders, and suited to independent developers, which could make a huge difference in delivering the number of high-quality new homes so desperately needed. Small Sites: Unlocking forgotten land for housing is a publication using our own analysis from our development site finding to define the quantity of housing that could be built on a sample of small sites that we have appraised over 24 months. The concept schemes reinforce the suitability of our volumetric split-level DNA adapting to different site conditions. Together, our ‘discovered’ sites could supply Londoners with 238 new homes. All of these sites are in desirable locations with great transport connectivity, decreasing pressure on Green Belt development and encouraging more cycling and walking. They give back to their local community by hosting architecture that is contextual, and homes that are attractive to…

‘Collected Volumes’ jointly published by Solidspace and Fifth Man is a collection of essays that tells the story of 81-87 Weston Street, featuring essays by Roger Zogolovitch, Simon Allford and writers Alan Powers, Hank Dittmar and Owen Hopkins. 81-87 Weston Street’s collected volumes are the most recent iteration of a strand of thinking which has lasted almost 15 years. Guided by a belief that, by placing volume at the centre of the design, living spaces which are modest in plan can become extraordinary in experience, Solidspace has explored split- section living across a range of building scales and with a growing circle of architects and designers. The project at Weston Street is also the product of slow architecture, evolved via setbacks and breakthroughs, at different sites and scales but always out of a long and creative partnership between developer and designer. Delays to the programme are not always welcome, but offer the space…

This monograph illustrates our latest development at Weston Street, SE1. Designed by Simon Allford of Stirling Prize winning practice, AHMM, Weston Street is the result of a 10 year ongoing collaboration that is testament to our approach to independent development. This publication tells the story of the development and showcases the design for the tessellating Solidspace apartments currently onsite and scheduled to complete in 2017.   More publication projects  

Solidspace has produced a flip book illustrating our unique Solidspace split-level DNA. You can purchase a copy for £5 by emailing Richard.   More publication projects

This brochure was created to showcase our very first Solidspace project on Centaur Street. We like to think of it as a catalogue for an art piece as we view this project as a sculpture for living in. Entitled, Between the Viaduct and My Dreams (a line from a song by Van Morrison), the monograph tells the story of our collaboration with architects dRMM and how the development came to fruition. A foreword by journalist Jonathan Glancey is included, who at the time of publishing was the architecture critic for the Guardian. An extract from his essay... "What our cities need is developers with the intelligent concern and willingness to take risks of Roger Zogolovitch, the talents of architects like dRMM and local authority officers keen to create a new generation of popular housing free of sentimentality, kitsch detailing and wilfully anti-urban design. Standing alongside one of the busiest main line railways in…

Part of a series of monographs produced by Solidspace, this brochure illustrates our development at Stapleton Hall Road designed by Stephen Taylor Architects and completed in 2014. The publication is entitled Underneath the arches, I dream my dreams away and is envisaged as a catalogue for an artwork for living in. The monograph includes a foreword by architectural critic, Stephen Bayley. An extract... "On an awkward and impossibly asymmetric corner site with a Piranesian railway bridge overcome by creeper to one side and a sloping red-bricked suburban avenue with gravity-drawn buses scarily descending to the other, Roger Zogolovitch’s Solidspace has built a show-piece. The houses are brick with stone-dressing and neither obviously new nor notably antiquarian in aspect. They fit in, but not in a craven, head-doffing way. They look both old established and newly arrived which is just as it should be. But the talking-point here is not the street face, but the heart. It is difficult…