Kingsgate House, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Horden Cherry Lee Architects Ltd, 2014. Oblique view across King's Road from

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Kingsgate House is a new exemplary, low-carbon affordable housing development which fully integrates its environmental responsibilities into the depth of the architecture, its roof and facades. The individual buildings are dominated by a vertical architectural arrangement of windows and the spacing of the columns of the new building is a reflection of the 6ft spacing of the colonnaded entrances and window spacing of the earlier buildings. The right and left bays of the building, each form a vertical Golden Section, proportions used in the adjacent historic buildings. The ‘solar shutters’, a term invented for the project by ourselves, are a contemporary reflection of the internal shutters of the older buildings often seen in Georgian houses in London, which provide both shade and privacy, an important factor on this heavily trafficked south facing part of the Kings Road. (from the architects)

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