![]() ![]() The tone of brick and proportional massing changes to reestablish the three historical addresses on the site and create three separate entrances to the building: a commercial entrance and separate entries for the market-rate and affordable housing. DSDHA’s six-story building incorporates two of these affordable-housing units as well as nine market-rate apartments, including a luxurious penthouse, and commercial space on the ground floor.Ĭorner House is a building with three subtly different facades-the main ones on Charlotte and Tottenham Streets, and a third on the tiny Tottenham Mews-each presentation of the building a variation on a refined material language. Camden Council, the authority overseeing the site of Corner House, was particularly eager to encourage the building of these units, which are sold or rented with government subsidies. ![]() In the face of skyrocketing rents in the capital and a deficiency of new social housing, local planning authorities offer incentives to developers to build affordable housing, requiring a certain number of such units in large developments. Corner House, an apartment building, goes more deeply into the crafting of each interior space, resulting in a discreet architecture of quality and elegance. The architects’ past projects, from schools to residential buildings, have demonstrated their flair for functionality. Among a hodgepodge of 18th-century houses with narrow frontages, postwar industrial buildings, and glossy contemporary offices, the Corner House succeeds in discovering freshness solidly rooted in timelessness.ĭSDHA had previously collaborated with the client, Derwent London, on its growing portfolio of property in the Fitzrovia area. As its name suggests, the Corner House sits smartly at the junction of the foodie haven Charlotte Street and tranquil Tottenham Street, a stone’s throw from bustling Oxford Circus. In the streets of Fitzrovia, in central London, the locally based architecture firm DSDHA has created an intriguing introduction to this urban neighborhood.
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