Over 20 years after artist and sculptor Anish Kapoor moved into an old dairy factory in south London, Caseyfierro Architects has transformed the entire street block into a series of studios, workshops and galleries (+ slideshow).

It took architects Michael Casey and Victoria Fierro five years to renovate the buildings without disturbing the day-to-day workings of Kapoor, whose most-famous works include the bean-shaped sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park.

The result is a series of six spaces, ranging from grand industrial workspaces to pristine white drawing studios, creating 3,100 square metres of floor space.

"Our incremental transformation provides a suite of new studio spaces for showing, testing, archiving and fabricating Kapoor's artwork," Casey told Dezeen.
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"Individual spaces have differing atmospheres," he added. "Each has a bias towards a specific method or material, and sophistication of the method used to create the work."

The architects started with the northern end of the street, converting the old dairy building into three studio spaces. The first of these is highlighted from the street by the presence of a huge new clerestory window.

Inside, the removal of the original first floor made it possible to create a nine-metre-high space, extending all the way up from ground level to the roof.

The north-fac...