Two semi-detached cottages form the centerpiece of the new garden courtyard created at Painter's Yard, London, United Kingdom
MASTERPLAN FOR PAINTER'S YARDOld Church Street
London, UK
In 1998, the practice was commissioned to produce a masterplan for the area around Chelsea Old Church in the heart of Old Chelsea. The client, a developer, expressed a clear desire to achieve good value through quality design, and to contribute new buildings that firmly fitted in with those existing in the locality to create a mixed residential development. The scheme included a design for a new church hall and a new vicarage and verger’s accommodation for Chelsea Old Church. The Masterplan involves 21 apartments, 4 town houses, 3 cottages, 4 maisonettes and a new church hall, vicarage and verger’s apartment. The scheme received the award for the best work within an existing historic neighbourhood from the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, in 2004. HM King Charles III when he was the Prince of Wales opened the Church Hall in 2001.
New arch to court created at Painter's Yard behind Old Church Street, London, United Kingdom
MASTERPLAN FOR PAINTER'S YARDOld Church Street
London, UK
The design is in the heart of the Chelsea Conservation area and involves an area of land along the eastern side of Old Church Street closest to the river. It includes 4 new town houses, 3 new cottages, 4 new maisonettes and 21 new apartments, as well as a Vicarage, a new Church Hall. Painter’s Yard is a new mixed used development in the heart of Old Chelsea. The site originally housed old industrial premises that had been partly bombed during the war. The scheme demolished an existing vicarage and church hall built in the 1970s. The Masterplan restores the street frontage to Old Church Street and creates courts at the rear through archways from the street. In addition to Painter’s Yard, an arched court, reminiscent of a cloister, was formed between the Church and the new Church Hall. A new vicarage and an apartment for a church warden were also incorporated. HM King Charles III when he was the Prince of Wales opened the Church Hall in 2001.