Manor Avenue House, London / OEB Architects

Project: Manor Avenue House
Architects: OEB Architects
Structural Engineering: Atlam
Built by John D Ltd
Location: Lewisham, London, United Kingdom
Photo Credits: Whitaker Studio
Text by OEB Architects

The reconfiguration, lowering and extension of a four storey townhouse in Lewisham, to make a high-ceilinged living space overlooking a new terraced garden.

Retained elements of the existing building – pipework, joists and boards, crude splice plates, heavy beams and original strutting – were unified in white paint.

Within this textured surroundings a series of carefully considered objects were placed: a solid ash and marble kitchen by Sebastian Cox, and a sheet steel stair fabricated in sections by RE Cooke and welded on site into a single element.

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