Brentford Lock West

A collaboration between 3 architects to make a new neighbourhood.

Brentford Lock West is part of a master plan for 540 homes delivered by Riches Hawley Mikhail, with Karakusevic Carsen and Duggan Morris Architects. Our client’s brief was to transform an industrial wasteland into a sensitive and elegant mixed tenure development, creating a new active edge to the Grand Union Canal. Our approach was a genuine collaboration with the other practices to create a sense of place and discernible character to the new neighbourhood. Our site is a linear plot that forms at the edge of the masterplan forming one side of a street leading to the canal and delivers 27 homes and 1 commercial unit. Key to the design was the creation of a street lined with kitchen windows and front doors and gardens.

“The architects have achieved something that is very difficult: the creation of an excellent residential block from a low budget and a project out of a ‘design and build’ procurement process. The completed building is economic and functional, but also thoughtful, and indeed, charming.”

Jurors Comment

RIBA London Award 2017

“The architects have achieved something that is very difficult: the creation of an excellent residential block from a low budget and a project out of a ‘design and build’ procurement process. The completed building is economic and functional, but also thoughtful, and indeed, charming.”

Jurors Comment

RIBA London Award 2017

Project:

Brentford Lock West

Client:

Waterside Developments & Willmott Dixon

Tenure:

26 homes for private sale

Density:

270 dwellings/ha

Images:

Mark Hadden

Awards:

RIBA Award 2017 |New London Architecture Award 2018 |Shortlisted for Housing Design Award 2015

Team:

Cathy Hawley, Tibbalds, Expedition Engineering, EDC Engineering Design Consultants

Project:

Brentford Lock West

Client:

Waterside Developments & Willmott Dixon

Tenure:

26 homes for private sale

Density:

270 dwellings/ha

Images:

Mark Hadden

Awards:

RIBA Award 2017 |New London Architecture Award 2018 |Shortlisted for Housing Design Award 2015

Team:

Cathy Hawley, Tibbalds, Expedition Engineering, EDC Engineering Design Consultants