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Article: A whole house with a view
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 10, 1994
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Squeezed into a 20ft gap between an ebullient 1860s pub and a
late-Georgian terrace in fashionable Islington is Britain's most
striking new house. Designed by Future Systems (Jan Kaplicky and
Amanda Levete), this space-age greenhouse is a radical alternative
to the conventional three-storey terraced house that has dominated
Britain's city streets for the past 300 years.
Even more remarkable is the fact that the house, commissioned by
restaurateurs Jeremy King and Debra Hauer (who run the Caprice and
the Ivy in central London), has been built in a conservation area.
Might it set a precedent: new houses for old areas? Certainly it
has cost no more, so client and architect insist, than buying ...