Yesterday I went to visit a Victorian terraced house down the road from me, as part of the London Open House event.
It felt a bit odd turning up at someone’s house to have a nose around, but it was a really interesting thing to do.
The house, masterminded by the Architect James Lambert, was recently remodelled and refurbished to create a super modern living space for a family of five, but all this behind a traditionally elegant façade in a distinguished Conservation Area.
The interior was clean and simple with a number of unusual features, including a glass floor in the lounge which formed a visual link with the open plan family room below - it also provided a great source of daylight. On the top floor, a folding wall divided the loft-like space into two separate and fully soundproofed bedrooms when required. The lower ground floor was open plan with sliding/folding glazed doors creating a seamless connection to a garden deck and a lush garden of tropical plants.
It was really interesting to see some architecture which I could relate to in an everyday living kind of way…last year I queued up to get into the Guerkin designed by Norman Foster but never got in (the queue was massive!). The year before that, I went to see the London Met University Graduate Centre by Daniel Libeskind which was amazing! Anyone interested in architecture should definately look out for the Open House London event next year…
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To be honest, I think I should have visited more places like this - houses and such. We did an architects’ office, and City Hall, both of which were cool but pretty big and flashy (blogged here). I think we should have visited more smaller places… next year maybe.
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