Two of our developments, Shepherdess Walk and Stapleton Hall Road have been featured in architectural critic, Edwin Heathcote’s most recent article in the Financial Times. He asks the question whether a new architectural style is emerging in London with a recent trend in working with brick. Here is what he says about our developments but you can read the full article here.
“At a smaller scale, the new Shoreditch apartment block, by Jaccaud Zein for developer Solidspace, is an irregular but highly sculpted piece of urban infill that manages to acknowledge the scale, grain and texture of its surroundings, which vary from ornate Victorian pubs to industrial workshops.
Smaller still is Stephen Taylor’s Stapleton Hall Road scheme in Stroud Green (also for Solidspace) in which the architect reinvents the “semi” as a less suburban type. Jonathan Woolf (who died tragically young last year) was another pioneer with his Brick Leaf House in Hampstead. We could also look at Sergison Bates’ Parkside block in Finsbury Park — serious, perhaps a little dour, but urbane, well-proportioned and tough as old boots.”