Architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has turned a mews house in Paddington, London, into an art gallery for its former residents topped by a large roof light.
Named the Paddington Pantheon, the artists' former home was reconfigured to be a gallery to display their work alongside a small guest apartment.
Jonathan Tuckey Design has created an art gallery in a mews house
"Having lived and worked previously in the house, the clients perceived the space as the ideal setting for the display of their artwork," explained Jonathan Tuckey Design founder Jonathan Tuckey.
"Conceived, defined and developed within its walls, their artworks were a product of those domestically-scaled spaces and in a beautiful way inherently suited the scale of the mews house," he told Dezeen. The Paddington Pantheon is topped with a skylight
The studio converted the rear part of the small mews house in Paddington into the main gallery space.
To allow light into the gallery, which is spread over two floors connected by an open staircase, Jonathan Tuckey Design designed a large roof light that is built into an angled aperture that extends up from the gallery.
The skylight brings natural light into the gallery
"The mews house sits in a dense community of buildings, many of the immediate neighbouring buildings being taller than their own," said Tuckey.
"Pitching towards the sky, the oculus that crowns the gallery was sculpted in a way that obscured the views towa...