Vine Hill
Clerkenwell Lifestyle UKAn urban courtyard complex knitting new into old in Clerkenwell.
Vine Hill
Clerkenwell Lifestyle UK
Overview
This complex scheme in the heart of Clerkenwell combines a 146-room hotel and new affordable housing block, supported by the sensitive refurbishment and extension of a Victorian Ragged School building to create 25,000 sqft of flexible workspace.
The eight storey hotel features a contemporary, but heavily textured, deep façade of folding case masonry piers. This play of shadows, angles, glass and pigmented stone is set against a view of the Ragged School's historic and distinctive crenelated tower, which itself acts as a pivot for a series of new publicly accessible external courtyards inspired by Clerkenwell's many tightly knit streets and alleys.
Completing the new tripartite composition of buildings is a tall, thin block of affordable housing which benefits from dual and triple aspect apartments with views over Clerkenwell. The building's 3-bay brickwork façade and articulated gable end is redolent of the Georgian terraced housing that used to line Eyre Street Hill on the eastern edge of the site.
Details
- Client:
- Clerkenwell Lifestyle UK
- Location:
- Clerkenwell, London
- Type:
- Architecture, Workplace, Hospitality
- Gross Floor Area:
- 25,000 sqft
- Stage:
- Complete
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Project Team
- TowerEight, Project Manager & Cost Consultant
- Heyne Tillet Steel, Structural Engineer
- Applied Energy, Services Engineer
- Eight Associates, Sustainability
- HG Construction, Main Contractor
- DP9, Planning Consultant
- Peter Stewart Consultancy, Heritage Consultant
- Point 2, Rights of Light / Daylight Sunlight
- Kanda, Community Engagement
- Eckersley O'Callaghan, Facade Consultant
- C S Todd & Associates, Fire Engineer
- Scotch, Acoustic Consultant
- Turkington Martin, Landscape Design
Credits
- Alex Jackson, Photography