Architecture

The elevational expression of the building demonstrates how modular construction technology can be used to represent a London vernacular of traditional materials. The building comprises two six-storey flanks fronting Westway and Old Oak Road with a taller seven storey corner element announcing the building with the main entrance. The lower flanks have dormer windows within top floor modules.

Not only does the design knit sympathetically into the Old Oak and Wormholt conservation context restoring the street frontage but it provides local residents with the opportunity to remember the previous building on the site. Architectural details include corbelled brick corners, reconstituted stone window surrounds and glazed brickwork. The material palette has been influenced by the immediate context and draws on the prominence of red and London stock brick in the area.