Peveril Gardens and Studios London, Old Kent Road Building Redesign, South London Property News
Peveril Gardens and Studios in London
22 July 2022
Location: Old Kent Road, south London, England, UK – south end of Tower Bridge Road, SE1
Design: Sanchez Benton Architects with Gabriel Kuri and Nigel Dunnett

photo © Oskar Proctor
Photos: © Max Creasy and © Oskar Proctor
Peveril Gardens and Studios, England
In 2018, Sanchez Benton won a competition, originally intended for the creation of a piece of public art at the southern end of Tower Bridge Road. Ingeniously, Sanchez Benton, in collaboration with artist Gabriel Kuri, instead saw the potential to transform, what is now Peveril Gardens and Studios, a disused garage with a raised podium terrace on the edge of the Bricklayers Arms roundabout into a public walled garden and ground level artist studios to support a thriving arts community.
photo © Oskar Proctor
The existing podium offered an opportunity to make a flourishing walled public garden in which the varied planting scheme, designed in collaboration with horticulturist Nigel Dunnett, has the capacity to survive periods of long drought and neglect, to future-proof the ecosystem for an increasingly warmer climate.

photo © Oskar Proctor
During initial investigations, the condition of the existing waterproofing to the raised terrace was found to need a complete upgrade. This repair utilised most of the available budget, forcing all other interventions to t...