Castle Lane改造项目丨英国伦敦丨Henley Halebrown

architects Henley Halebrown

Castle Lane London 2011–

The adaptive reuse of these four blocks creates 88 affordable homes and forms part of Landsec's redevelopment of Victoria Street. The design works with the buildings’ loadbearing internal walls to achieve the required mix with minimal structural alteration.

These “Unlisted Buildings of Merit” are in Westminster’s Birdcage Walk Conservation Area.

Castle Lane Working Men's club (left) and Castle Lane (right)

The facades of the roof extension provide large expanses of floor to ceiling glazing.

Victorian glass and cast iron engineering structures provide the inspiration for the evenly spaced and narrow proportioned modules of the new attic storey.

Constructed in the 1880s for the Stag Brewery, the buildings are late examples of purpose built working class housing. A mews building was added in 1991. Most recently they were used as hostel accommodation.

The chimneys that distinguish the original buildings' skyline are raised above new decorative precast elements, preserving their silhouette. The new precast elements mimic the original buildings’ stringcourse and cornice designs.

The former Castle Lane Working Men's Club has been converted to a residence.

Proposed ground floor plan.

View of the Alexandra Block seen from Palace Street.

North Block Courtyard

Technical

Appointment: 2011

Construction start: 2015

Area: 5700m

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Budget: £22m

Form of contract: Design & Build

Client: Landsec

Services Engineer: Chapman & BDSP

Structural Engineer: Clarke Nicholls & Marcell

Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership

Landscape Architect: Plincke

Planning Consultant: Gerald Eve

Heritage Consultants: Montague Evans