Highbury Apartment, London Home Interior, London Property Renewal, Architecture Photos
Highbury Apartment in Islington, London
26 Jan 2021
Highbury Apartment
Architects: Patalab Architecture
Location: Highbury, London N5, England, UK
Highbury Apartment

With views overlooking Highbury Fields, Patalab Architecture’s renovation of a two bedroomed-apartment on Highbury Terrace sought to extend this leafy outlook to as much of the flat as possible as well as restore grandeur to the listed space.

Dating back to the late 18th century, this Georgian property was originally built as a house and following the second world war, and a demand for more housing stock, the house was divided up to create a series of apartments. Since this division the first floor apartment has undergone a variety of unsympathetic refurbishments which have eradicated original proportions and mouldings meaning that the windows and shutters were the only historic elements still intact. Despite the lack of original features we were still required to seek Listed Building Consent for our scheme. We achieved this successfully.
The greatest design challenge we faced followed our aspiration to remove an internal corridor that connected the living spaces, bathroom and bedroom. By donating this former circulation space to the living room we increased its size and created a more contemporary-feeling apartment, however our design had to ensure that the five doors that now lead off this central space didn?t resu...