Finsbury Park

With a full-planning hole-in-one, OGArch has marked the end of a negative planning history for this highly constrained site. Within the Stroud Green Conservation Area, the local authority had previously refused all development on the grounds of eroding the gap between terraces of perpendicular streets.

The successful concept was a low-slung but generous urban oasis, comprising alternate private courtyards and volumes.

The new volumes will vary in height and materiality, with irregular, taller forms clad in dark, standing-seam zinc, with lower volumes in soft neutrals, varying only in texture, as if emerging from the earth.

It will be a polite but whimsical building, whose series of ethereal yet private spaces will be in constant flux with the time of day and seasons.

Site start was early May 2024.

The development is due for completion Q4 2024. As of summer 2024, the site was cleared & excavated, slabs cast, and steelwork and walls underway.

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