Greenwich High Road

Our Greenwich High Road project fulfilled our client’s ambition to improve on a previously consented but unbuilt scheme for this empty site between Deptford and Greenwich. After we had completed the Stage 3+ design, the project was delivered by HoC architects while we remained in a client side concept guardian role.

Our proposal optimised the development opportunity with a carefully designed addition to the streetscape, which borders Ashburnham Triangle Conservation Area, and is adjacent to a Grade II listed pumping station.

The site boundary follows a step in the street. We worked with this step by using a grid of projecting columns and floor plates to form inset balconies. This extruded grid creates a threshold between the apartments and street and creates a sense of layering and depth to the building. They also provide solar shading across this south facing elevation.

Each home has generous and in most cases full width balcony space accessed via floor-to-ceiling windows directly from the living space, which gives long views and daylight deep into the homes.

The development acts as a bookend to the terrace of buildings to the west of the site along Greenwich High Road and mirrors the height of the six storey buildings on the other side of the pumping station, helping to frame the listed building.

The new building is a six-storey development comprising five residential floors of 14 homes above a ground floor dine-in and curbside pick-up independent bakery, Coffee & Beyond.