Peabody Avenue
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Five storey, L-shaped residential block that provides a termination and focal point for the avenue
The block completes the southern end of the 200 meter long Peabody Avenue, which had been left incomplete after being damaged by war-time bombing.
The five-storey block contains 55 new flats and includes a southern gateway to the estate in the form of a wide, double height opening which provides a defined threshold while maintaining long views down the Avenue from this approach.
The qualities of the existing avenue are the reference point for the materials and details; masonry facades with warm, yellow stock bricks and paler details to match the existing walls. A simple attic storey, with light scoops to bring daylight into top-floor flats, reinforces the articulation of the existing roofscape.
Data
- Begun: Jul 2009
- Completed: Mar 2011
- Floor area: 5,100m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £8.2M
- Procurement: JCT 2005 Design & Build
- Address: Pimlico, London, SW1V 4AY, United Kingdom
Tags 
Bomb damage, City of Westminster, Flats, London, Open House 2014, Open House 2015, RIBA Award, RIBA Award 2012
Materials
Professional Team
- Architect: Haworth Tompkins
- Client: Peabody Trust
- Structural engineer: Price & Myers
- Services engineer: Max Fordham
- Quantity surveyor: Bristow Johnson
- Main contractor: Mansell Construction Services
- Landscape architect: Coe Design Landscape Architecture
