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Modern Houses In The London Borough Of Kensington and Chelsea

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ImageAddressArchitectDateNotesReferences
Kensington (W8)
10 Palace Gate, W8 Wells Coates 1939 IoE 422486
1a Canning Place, W8
South Kensington (SW7, W8)
Vicarage, St Paul's, Onslow Square, SW7Maidment & Brady1969Pevsner p542.
Hereford House, 24-26 Hereford Square, SW7 4TS Colin St John Wilson & Arthur Baker1958Also a house at 1 Wetherby Place.Pevsner p548.
17a Grenville Place, SW7Stirling & Gowan1959H&GS p112.
51 & 52 Kelso Place, W8 5QQSeth Stein1995A minimalist courtyard house incorporating existing Victorian buildings.AR Oct 96
Earls Court (SW5)
5 Kramer Mews, SW5 VX DesignMews house squeezed into end plot. Called "T House" by architects.
Knightsbridge
10 & 12 Harriet Walk, SW1
101,103,105,107 Pavilion Road, SW1X 0ET Arne Jacobsen, Dissing & Weitling 1977 Four houses, part of the Danish Embassy. Jacobsen died in 1971 with the design incomplete. His work was taken on by his former staff, Dissing & Weitling.Pevsner p582.
27 Cheval Place, SW7BB PartnershipLong, thin top-lit house.
74 Cheval Place, SW7Seth Stein
2 Rutland Mews West, SW7 1NYNiall McLaughlin Architects
Chelsea
22,24 & 26 Ovington Square, SW3Walter Segal1957Pevsner p541.
37 Tite Street, SW3Tony Fretton ArchitectsPonderous house clad in French red limestone - including the garage doors!
49 Glebe Place, SW3Charles Rennie MackintoshStudio for Harold Squire. The ground floor is purportedly the only remaining Mackintosh work in London.
17 Ropers Orchard, Danvers Street, SW3 Infill maisonette over garages.
Two houses, Paultons Street, SW3Niall Mclaughlin ArchitectsTwo small barrel vaulted houses on a thin site set back behind other properties.
Crofton House, 32 Old Church Street, SW3 5BYTony Fretton ArchitectsNew flat at basement, ground and first floor. The rear extends as far as Upper Cheyne Row. For Anish and Susanne Kapoor.'Architecture Today', no.176, March 07, p.37.
'The Inner Court', 48 Old Church Street, SW3 5BYJoseph RykwertOffices and six flats around courtyard with curved vehicular ramp.
58 Old Church Street, SW3
5 Mulberry Walk, SW3
64 Old Church Street, SW3 6EP Mendelsohn & Chermayeff 1936 A long, low house with Mendelsohn's characteristic horizontal emphasis. For publisher Denis Cohen. Conservatory added by Foster and Partners. Listed.IoE 422293. Pevsner p587. TMHT p61.
66 & 68 Old Church Street, SW3 6EP Walter Gropius & Maxwell Fry 1936 For playwright Benn Levy and actress Constance Cummings. Extended and altered including tile hanging. Now two houses. Listed.IoE 422294. TMHT p60.Pevsner p587.
20 Cathcart Road, SW10 C.J.G.Guest1975 Pevsner p549.
Notting Hill (W11)
65 Ladbroke Grove, W11 2PDMaxwell FryListed. Block of 18 Flats. Pevsner p526. IoE 421385
18 Lansdowne Crescent, W11 2NL John Pawson, Paul Davis & Partners 2004 Posh flats for Octagon Developments. Pawson's original design executed by Paul Davis and Partners.
29 1/2 Lansdowne Crescent, W11 Thin infill.
19 Lansdowne Walk, W11 House alterations for architectural writer Charles Jencks.
1,1a & 1b Clarendon Road, W11 Three houses.
39 Pottery Lane, London W11 Mews House.
41-43 Pottery Lane, London W11 4LY David Mikhail 1997 Mews House.
13 Norland Place, W11 4QG Jonathan Tuckey Design Mews house with big features and minimal details.
1-6 Prince's Yard W11 4PH 1971 Six houses squeezed into a tiny site at end of mews.
17b Princes Place, W11 4QA Peter Aldington of Aldington & Craig 1970
1 Addison Place, W11 Pierre Botschi Mews house with 70's style curved windows.
61 and 63 Portobello Road, W11 3DBAlan Power Architects A pair of houses with a 'gull wing' roof.
6 Alba Place, LONDON, W11 1LQJohn PawsonOff Portobello road. The pink house in the photo. Tarn House, for Gary Tarn, film maker. Minimalist interior transformation by John Pawson. (The opposite, pale blue house has an interior by Henning Stummel).
Portobello Studios, 5a-5e Haydens Place, LONDON, W11 1LYOff Portobello Road. Five houses in gated mews.
10-18, Dunworth Mews, LONDON, W11 1LERoland Cowan ArchitectsOff Portobello Road. Houses with a shared front garden.
7 Simon Close, LONDON, W11Off Portobello Road. Wood and glass facade.
North Kensington (W10)
95a Oxford Gardens, W10Alex Michaelis of Michaelis Boyd AssociatesSunken house due to planning restriction of 6ft maximum height.
1a-3d, St Quintin Avenue, W10 Flats.
Flats in St Marks Road, W10Flats.
118a Highlever Road, W10Crawford PartnershipOn a corner site with Barlby Road. The house has a lot of accommodation below ground to meet the planners' requirement of 3m maximum height. Called 'Snowden House II' by the architects.
319 and 319a Portobello Road, W10 5SYMeadowcroft Griffin Architects2004House and gallery for Simon Finch Rare Books. End of terrace house with layered glass and concrete facade.Architecture Today 160, p58.
Trellick Tower, 5 Golborne Road, W10Erno Goldfinger1972Pevsner p532; IoE 471992; EH p574;
1,3 & 5, Hewer Street, LONDON, W10 6DUA terraace of three houses at the end of the street.
1-68 Kensal House, Ladbroke Grove, LONDON, W10 5BQF Maxwell Fry and Grey Wornum1938Listed.IoE 421529
Holland Park (W8)
12 Aubrey Road, W8 Well composed front elevation.
23 Kensington Place, W8 Tom Kay 1967 J.C.R. Bailey House.ABT p113; JP p23
55 Campden Street, W8 7EL Douglas Stephens
The Mount, 76 Bedford Gardens, W8Douglas Stephens1964
60 Hornton Street, W8 4NU Pevsner p507.
The Garden House, 20 Napier Place, W14Three storey flats. Over-rated by Pevsner (p513).

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