Amin Taha and his studio Groupwork's block at 168 Upper Street is a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey pavilion, reconstructed in terracotta-coloured concrete to complete a terrace in London.
The block was designed by Groupwork to be a deliberately distorted version of a previous building that was destroyed during the second world war.
It contains a showroom for contemporary furniture and design company Aria on the ground floor, with three apartments above.

It was recreated by carrying out an archival and digital study of the lost block's mirror at the other end of the parade of buildings. Using photographs and a laser survey of this building a virtual model of the bombed building was created.
Groupwork used this digital model to create a cast from 300 expanded-polystyrene panels, which was used to pour terracotta-coloured concrete and form the shell of the building.
This hollow half-metre-thick cast-concrete shell is the building's load-bearing structure, as well as forming the external and internal finishes.
The facade maintains the pilasters, capitals, pediments, cornices, windows and doorways of the destroyed building, but the studio didn't want the new building to be a perfect visual replica.
"We weren't interested in rebuilding something even the original Victorian pattern-book builders would have regarded as a watered down and weak interpretation of a Palladian Palazzo, built not using the highest quality materials of that time and ultimately le...