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City Road Apartment in Islington
14 Apr 2022
Architects: DROO
Location: City Road, Islington, London

Photos: Henry Woide
City Road Apartment, London
After months of in house working and schooling, urban centres must engage with a set of new behaviours to retain their necessary importance. In the world where reuse and density should be encouraged, DROO’s City Approach project celebrates the increasing global reality of LIVE / WORK / SCHOOL / HOME.

City Road Apartment is located in the heart of the Moorfields conservation area in Islington, the project continues of our work from ?within? to extend the life and relevance of existing urban contexts. This retrofit is a multi-level extension of a historic building through a series of staked maisonettes-like bridging between the Edwardian period building and the ever-evolving contemporary city scape surrounding it.
Fittingly at the heart of London?s Tech centre, the resulting hybrid live-work typologies offer a flowing organisation that is both open and differentiated by possible occupations and times of the day. Between the necessary closed spaces one can find a series of niches and spatial nooks that offer alternatives to gather or isolate, to work or to school. Large communal live-work spaces for each unit are separated from the private spaces by dramatic sculptural staircases and secret joinery walls.

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