Finsbury Park

From planning stalemate to midcentury-modern, urban oasis.

With a full-planning hole-in-one, OGArch has marked the end of a negative planning history for this highly constrained site. Within the Stroud Green Conservation Area, the local authority had previously refused all development on the grounds of eroding the gap between terraces of perpendicular streets.

The successful concept was a low-slung but generous urban oasis, comprising alternate private courtyards and volumes.

The new volumes vary in height and materiality, with irregular, taller forms clad in dark, standing-seam zinc, with lower volumes in soft neutrals, varying only in texture, as if emerging from the earth.

It is a polite but whimsical building, whose series of ethereal yet private spaces are in constant flux with the time of day, and the seasons.

A cornerstone of the brief was to interpret the client’s enthusiasm for midcentury interiors into this London urban context.

As if hewn from chalk, a neutral colour bathroom offers an intimate and primal, yet crisp experience.

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