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Article: Garden parti: a garden pavilion uses High-Tech vocabulary to create a transparent garden room, mediating between leafy exterior and nineteenth-century house.(Simon Gander Associates)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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The addition, by Simon Gander Associates, of a crystalline box to one side of a large nineteenth-century house in Canonbury, north London, transforms the ground floor confines of the old building and creates a new garden room.
The client owns the two lower floors of the house which faces south onto a tree-lined street. To the west of it there is a freestanding double garage. Between house and garage there was a gate and narrow path which led into a rough yard, rendered sunless by a tall hedge and large sycamore tree. Beyond the yard was a large mature garden, effectively screened from the street. There was little connection between the interior of the house and ...