Ladbroke Grove
RBKC — HUTCHINSON & PARTNERS
An urban exterior perspective of a mixed-use residential development featuring articulated brick volumes and active street-level integration, useful as a precedent for masterplanning and pedestrian streetscapes.
- What we like about this project
- The sawtooth profile on the mid-rise roofline breaks down the apparent scale of the long upper residential block.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roofline
- brick-facade
- ground-floor-retail
- balcony-recesses
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- contextual
Visual tags
- urban-masterplan
- mixed-use
- streetscape
- pedestrian-realm
- brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-block urban streetscape featuring articulated mid-rise volumes with sawtooth roof profiles and a taller concrete-frame tower in the background.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick cladding with inset balconies and large ground-floor storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at street level transitioning to six-to-eight-story mid-rise blocks and a high-rise background tower.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight under an overcast sky casting gentle, diffuse shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, approachable neighborhood atmosphere focused on human-scale public realm interaction.
- Environmental context
- Urban masterplan streetscape with mixed-use residential blocks, street trees, and pedestrian pathways.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian-scaled street edge with generous sidewalks, active ground-floor retail frontages, and integrated planting beds.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal retail bands contrasted with vertical window rhythms and repeating balcony bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban brick architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roofline, brick-facade, ground-floor-retail, balcony-recesses
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, contextual
- Visual tags
- urban-masterplan, mixed-use, streetscape, pedestrian-realm, brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-block urban streetscape featuring articulated mid-rise volumes with sawtooth roof profiles and a taller concrete-frame tower in the background.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick cladding with inset balconies and large ground-floor storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at street level transitioning to six-to-eight-story mid-rise blocks and a high-rise background tower.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight under an overcast sky casting gentle, diffuse shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, approachable neighborhood atmosphere focused on human-scale public realm interaction.
- Environmental context
- Urban masterplan streetscape with mixed-use residential blocks, street trees, and pedestrian pathways.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian-scaled street edge with generous sidewalks, active ground-floor retail frontages, and integrated planting beds.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal retail bands contrasted with vertical window rhythms and repeating balcony bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban brick architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture