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View from Holloway Road
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Conversion of a two-storey Victorian warehouse and addition of a new building for London Metropolitan University
The project combines the conversion of a two-storey Victorian warehouse at the rear of the site and a new front building on Holloway Road, North London.
The front building is a brick-clad concrete frame structure enclosing new studios, lecture and exhibition spaces and ancillary offices and seminar rooms. There is a terrace at roof level. The warehouse contains back up areas, workshops, laboratories, dark rooms and studio spaces.
The entrance to the building is via an arcade over the pavement. The ground floor is the ‘shop window’ of the school with large windows opening onto the main exhibition and lecture spaces. A new glazed link connects the warehouse to the front building at the rear.
The building was conceived as ‘raw’ construction with all materials left in their natural state and all details and services exposed to reveal the workings and construction of the building to the students.
Data
- Completed: Feb 1996
- Floor area: 3,200m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £2.3M
- Funding: Private
- Procurement: Design and Build
- Address: 40-44 Holloway Road, Islington, London, N7 8JL, United Kingdom
Tags 
Arcade, Conversion, Education, London, London Borough of Islington, Terrace, University, Victorian, Warehouse
Materials
Professional Team
- Architect: Brady Mallalieu Architects
- Project architect: Steven Shorter
- Client: Folgate Estates, University of North London
- Building services engineer: RN Murphy and Partners
- Structural engineer: Malachy Walsh and Partners
- Main contractor: Folgate Estates
