Whittington Estate Apartment, Archway Home, London Property, Interior Architecture Photos
Whittington Estate Apartment in Archway, London
8 Sep 2020
Whittington Estate Apartment
Design: Patalab Architecture
Location: Archway, London, England

The sense of space, an enhanced connectivity and an understated material palette turns this sensitively refurbished small one-bedroom Whittington Estate Apartment into a spatial sanctuary and a carefully crafted place that feels much bigger than it physically is.

Situated to the East of Hampstead Heath in the Whittington Estate, the flat was designed in the 1970s by the architect Peter Tabori during Camden Council?s ?golden age? of progressive housing development. The estate is best known for it’s low-rise stepped profile which was inspired by the local topography, transforming the site’s slope into a design cue and creating a cascade of terraces which allows every apartment to have it?s own outdoor space as well as a front door along the pedestrianised street.
A further defining feature of the Estate is the angular concrete divider that laterally separates each terrace. These concrete fins are the construction?s principal load-baring elements which perform two important roles: externally they emphasise the width of each apartment giving the low-rise estate a more domestic and intimate scale than is usually associated with estate housing, and internally they provide each flat with flexibility in general arrangement. Many ...