Columbia Road House Extension London, Bethnal Green Home Enlargement, English Residential Architecture Photos
Columbia Road House Extension in London
3 Aug 2021
Architects: The DHaus Company
Location: Tower Hamlets, East London, England, UK

Columbia Road House Extension
This was a very special project from the Start?DHaus was invited to tender for an ambitious ground floor rear extension, the Clients brief for Columbia Road House was clear ? to maximise space and light, opening up the entire rear facade but at the same time keeping an outdoor courtyard space.

Set within the backdrop of the world-famous Columbia Road flower market. The flower market began as a Saturday trading market. It was moved to Sunday, by Act of Parliament, in order to accommodate the needs of local Jewish traders. The context of the street could be 1817 rather than 2017 as the facade and Victorian brick architectural grain is more or less unblemished apart from the flowers and colourful street art and characters that roam the streets in and around the site in question.
The Construction was complex and complicated fraught with stressful obstacles to overcome but with an extremely hands on and understanding client we got past the finish line and delivered one of the most satisfying projects we have ever worked on. One huge problem encountered when the contractor started on site was the opening up works on the ground floor. We discovered there was a giant bakery oven nearly the size of the whole yard...