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Peter Morris Architects covers Cloud House in pink arches



Peter Morris Architects has revealed the design for a pair of houses in north London, which will have a facade made up of pink arches "absolutely everywhere".
Cloud House, which is actually a pair of three-storey homes united behind a pink-arch-covered facade, is set to be built in Gospel Oak after winning planning permission earlier this month.
Peter Morris Architects designed the pair of houses, one of which will be its founder Peter Morris' own home, to bring an element of fun to the street it will be located on.
"The goal was to create a building that would bring joy and delight to the neighbourhood," Morris told Dezeen.
"Something that would feel like a surprising treat for anyone who came upon it, as well as to create a beautiful home for my family to live in, alongside one for someone else to buy."
The home will be built between a heritage-listed school and a modern, brick home on a street that has buildings in a variety of architecture styles.
It was the arches at St Martin's Church, which stands opposite the site and was referred to by architectural writer Nicholas Pevsner as "the craziest of London's Victorian churches", that informed the houses' many arches.

"I know it's not generally a very fashionable idea in architecture, but I love the idea that a building can be decorated on its outside as well as on its inside," said Morris.
"The arches on The Cloud House mostly aren't structural, but their decorativ...
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