Garden House is a new home, studio and gallery under a 'hanging-basket' roof for Whitaker Malem: the artist and costume-maker duo behind works by Allen Jones, fashion designers Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen and numerous film costumes including Harry Potter, Batman and Wonderwoman.

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Architects: Hayhurst and Co.

Location: London Borough of Hackney, UK

Area: 99.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Kilian O'Sulivan, Courtesy of Hayhurst and Co

© Kilian O'Sulivan

Garden House is a new home, studio and gallery under a 'hanging-basket' roof for Whitaker Malem: the artist and costume-maker duo behind works by Allen Jones, fashion designers Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen and numerous film costumes including Harry Potter, Batman and Wonderwoman.
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On the site of a single-storey workshop they self-built in the mid-1990s, the clients wished to create a new home and studio which maximised the space and natural light available within their tight, north-facing site behind Victorian terraced housing in Hackney's de Beauvoir Conservation area, London's East-End

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Built within the original brick party walls they shared with their neighbours on all sides, the design was devised as three different roof pitches to create a ?form of ...