- Sign in | Subscribe
  Log in
  Sign in
  
  Help
  
  Sign in
  
  If you’ve activated your online subscription to the AJ or you already have an account for the AJ Buildings Library, sign in below.
  
  Email address:
  
  Password:
  
  Remember me
  
  Forgotten password? | Subscribe now
  
  By continuing to use the site you agree to our Privacy & Cookies policy
  
  AJ Subscribers
  
  The AJ Buildings Library is available as a subscription benefit to AJ subscribers. If you’ve activated your online subscription on TheAJ.co.uk, you can use the same credentials to sign in on AJBL.
  If you have not activated your subscription on the AJ website you will need to do so to access the AJ Buildings Library.
  
  Not an Architects' Journal subscriber?
  Choose one of these options:
  Subscribe today for immediate access to AJ Buildings Library, TheAJ.co.uk and The Architects’ Journal magazine.
  
  Find out more about all the benefits of a subscription to The Architects' Journal.
  
  For all queries regarding access to AJ online, please email our Online Help Desk at customerservices@ArchitectsJournal.co.uk

Email address:
Password:
	Remember me

Mews House Renovation

Piers Ford Architects, London, 2003

Subscribe now to instantly view this image

Subscribe to the Architects’ Journal (AJ) for instant access to the AJ Buildings Library, an online database of nearly 2,000 exemplar buildings in photographs, plans, elevations and details.

Already a subscriber? Sign in

The first floor living room opening to glass lantern above with sliding glazed roof

Edmund Sumner (website) Download Original

Photographs
Drawings

Renovation of 20-year-old mews house in Kings Cross, London, with particularly attention to daylighting and circulation

The mews house, built in a style reminiscent of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, has been remodelled in an up-to-date style. Particular attention was paid to the use and penetration of natural light into a house with only one outside wall facing onto the narrow mews. The internal spaces have been reorganised to provide an additional bedroom and a small study.

A sliding glass roof over the double height living room creates the effect of an internal courtyard with light penetrating to all corners. The sliding rooflight also provides a canopy, when open, to an alfresco dining space on the newly created roof terrace.

The windows were all replaced using galvanized steel frames and lintels evocative of the more recent, light industrial use of the mews.