Newly exposed concrete walls are paired with a matching terrazzo in this sensitive home renovation by London studio Archmongers in North Kensington's Trellick Tower.
Led by architects Margaret Bursa and Johan Hybschmann, Archmongers reworked a duplex apartment on the 23rd and 24th floors of the listed 31-storey tower block.
Archmongers has renovated a Trellick Tower apartment
The design stays true to the original layout and materials palette but some small adjustments help to emphasise the building's brutalist character.
Bursa and Hybschmann chose to expose the coarse concrete aggregate walls, while new fixtures and surfaces are made from industrial-style materials in complementary tones.
Materials were chosen complement the newly exposed concrete The effect is most striking in the kitchen, where the speckled brown and cream terrazzo sits alongside brushed stainless steel counters, white cabinets and matt-black linoleum flooring.
Archmongers designed the home for a client who divides their time between London, Italy and Switzerland.
"Our client was looking for a refurbishment which was true to the simplicity and modesty of the original fit-out," Bursa told Dezeen.
Matt-black linoleum provides flooring
The aim, she said, was to embrace "the raw beauty of brutalist concrete" and emphasise "the use of honest materials in every intricate detail".
"The contemporary update is drawn from the original architecture," she said.

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