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This refreshing proposal utilises a business class use building
fronting Sussex Place with a separate smaller
business class use building at the rear of the site
with access from the rear. A landscaped garden links
the two buildings.
The building fronting Sussex Place is seen as a
transition between the Victorian mansion flats of
College Court to the east and the much taller 20th
Century office building to the west. The design will
provide a link between the diverse architecture of
the two buildings. It also presents a similar
concept of intensive frontage development with some
amenity space at the rear.
The Sussex Place facade, facing north and to the
Hammersmith flyover, is largly solid with elements
of the facade peeled out to provide slot windows
facing east and west, with views away from the
flyover. At foor levels below the flyover there are
some windows in the solid facade to povide views
under the flyover to St Paul's Church and open space
beyond. The facade ackowledges both the horizontal
character of College Court and its projecting
vertical bays, and the vertical character of the
office block. The south facade is essentially
glazed. The form arises from the need to satisfy BRE
standards for daylighting the College Court flats.
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