UK-studio Tsuruta Architects has completed a housing project in south London called The Queen of Catford, which features thousands of cat faces and a pair of blue heritage plaques dedicated to fictional characters.
The Queen of Catford consists of five quirky apartments located above and behind a pair of shops on Catford High Street.
The home are accessed via an external staircase, with perforations in the shape of cat faces
An estimated total of 27,620 feline faces feature both inside and outside the homes, in the form of laser-cut perforations, door handles and embossed details.
The properties are also dotted with references to two characters, Katherine Ford and Raven Bjorn, a pair of fictional roommates whose lives are intertwined with local history. Blue plaques pay tribute to fictional characters devised as part of the design
Tsuruta Architects designed the scheme for the Catford Regeneration Partnership, a subsidiary of Lewisham Council with the aim of revitalising the Catford Shopping Centre and its surroundings.
The task given to him was to convert a pair of existing terraced houses and infill the space behind, which back onto a car park.
Cat faces are laser-cut into furniture inside all five homes
"The brief was to be a catalyst for the regeneration of the area," architect Taro Tsuruta told Dezeen. "It was quite a naive brief and I took it seriously."
It was this that prompted Tsuruta to start thinking about cats. The name of the area, Catfo...