Veretec delivered this award-winning residential building for Alchemi Group working in close collaboration with Stiff + Trevillion.
Project Details
Awards
The project includes the refurbishment and redevelopment of an existing seven storey concrete framed office building to provide 20 high-quality residential apartments. There are a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, along with retail space at ground floor fronting Westbourne Grove.
The existing facades were dismantled and re-clad using Petersen handmade brickwork set into precast concrete panels alongside glazed faience panels. Decorative metalwork to the balconies enhance the building’s appearance and provide solar shading.
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Innovative frame strengthening solutions were developed to alleviate additional loading from the new palette of facade materials, and to provide an additional floor for a two-storey penthouse apartment with 360° panoramic views.
The project completed in 2015.
“The combination of the hand made bricks and the hand made faience work give the building a real “crafted” quality. The original building was very much of its time, brown brick, brown glass, and although the architects have kept its structure, it now looks like a new building”
Winner International Design & Architecture Awards
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