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House and Studio for Brad
Lochore
Old Nichol Street, London, E2
The building is an extension of a warehouse where Brad Lochore has lived
and worked as an artist for some time. Located within a small neighbourhood
in Shoreditch, where small emerging gallery spaces are interspersed with
local shops, it overlooks the red brick walls and gabled roofs of the Boundary
Estate, a significant social housing development of the early 20th Century.
Our design, which is irregular in composition, plays on the mixture of formality and plainness in the surrounding buildings and the ad-hoc and unconscious changes to which they have been subjected.
Brad's studio on the ground floor has a large glazed window opening to the street behind a security screen of flexible stainless steel mesh, so that the street life and studio activity interplay.
The scheme has now been awarded planning permission for an extended scheme which includes a two storey extension to the south of the existing warehouse building. The extension provides a kitchen and family room, tall study and roof deck, all rendered in a range of whitewashed materials influenced in part by the client's paintings.
Status: Due for completion Spring 2009
Client / Builder: Brad Lochore
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Photographs: David Grandorge
www.lochore.com
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