67 Southwark Street is a new sixteen-storey residential development, a tall, slender marker building occupying a tiny site on a sharp corner in Bankside. Just nine flats share the building, six of which extend over more than one floor to create five different apartment types in total: 3 single floor units; 4 duplex units of two different formats; 1 storey unit; and 1 three-storey unit occupying the uppermost floors. At roof level, a resident?s belvedere offers panoramic views over London.
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The building form responds to its context by rising to a height that mediates between the larger-scale buildings clustered around Tate Modern and the smaller-scale buildings to the south. At the building?s base, a new commercial unit let to a café, opens onto an improved streetscape at this prominent location. © Nick Guttridge
At its widest only 12m, narrowing to under 4m, the diminutive site footprint prompted a design approach that is more commonly found in cities such as Tokyo or Hong Kong where very tight plots define the cityscape. This is an intricate residential tower that derives a complex two-part composition from its immediate surroundings. To busy Southwark Street, the building presents a sealed north-facing facade with large windows and a bold striped-brick finish, a compositional counterpoint to the slender form. On Lavington Street, generous balconies, on a metal structure of simple steel columns and horizontal supports rise up a more restrained cream bric...