Residential - Constructed

Belsize Fire Station Project Commissioner Platinum Land Creator Tate Harmer Tate Harmer has turned a three-storey former fire station in Belsize, north London, into energy-efficient apartments.

The project is a reinvention of this amazing Grade II* building into wonderful residential accommodation, both affordable and open market housing. Tate Harmer have also created a very sustainable scheme that still protects and enhances the building’s incredible heritage features. More substantial improvements to the building fabric have increased thermal performance while retaining the fire station’s original elements such as timber frames and panelling, glazed white bricks, fireman poles and double-height spaces built as engine bays.

Mole House Project Commissioner Sue Webster Creator Adjaye Associates Mole House is a three-storey live-work space in the heart of Hackney, designed as a single-family dwelling for contemporary artist Sue Webster.

The project came together as an exercise in excavation and retention, with Webster’s vision for the new home being strongly tied to the history and fabric of the original building. The detached Victorian house was left vacant and derelict after a 40-year long tenancy, held by a resident locally referred to as the Hackney Mole Man.