The focal point is a stone staircase which replaces a timber one added in the 1980s…
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Groupwork + Amin Taha’s controversial stone‑fronted office and residential building at 15 Clerkenwell Close is a serious building that nevertheless displays a lightness of touch, says Rob Wilson
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With pivoting bookshelves and vanishing doors, Amin Taha + Groupwork create flexible spaces to live and work in London’s historical Clerkenwell neighbourhood
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Award-winning architect Amin Taha has provoked the wrath of council planners with his glorious, rough-hewn flats in London’s Clerkenwell. Do they face the wrecking ball?
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Using quarry found finishes, part carved and abandoned stone columns, revealed cloisters and mosaic floors 15 Clerkenwell Close at first alludes to a local archaeology, but also raises questions on our architectural heritage and its responsibility within a broader culture.
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The building Taha has realised with his practice, Groupwork, doesn’t kowtow but converses as an equal with its historic surroundings and tells its modern story contextually and lucidly.
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The philosophy behind these designs is to use a material as both the skin and the bone of a structure, creating something both rational and elegant.
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Helical staircases are often designed to be show-stoppers, focal points of architectural spaces that are intended to impress. But even compared to its eye-catching peers, this staircase developed by Webb Yates Engineers and The Stonemasonry Company is unusually audacious.
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The Stonemasonry Company, based in Great Britain, deploys taught steel ropes for the construction of its spiral stairwell
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This stair is as remarkable as it looks. It is a 320°, self supporting staircase made in solid limestone.
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The stair, a free-standing curve of 270 created by hand in the purest French Limestone, is a masterpiece of design and engineering.
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