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David Leech

A house for an engineer . London

David Leech Architects

This small extension and refurbishment attempts to amplify the chamber quality of the Edwardian terrace house recognising the positive implications of individual rooms and the subtle relationships they allow across a house. The design avoids introducing a single large open plan family room as an autonomous addition to the original, and instead presents a suite of smaller interconnected rooms and courts that weave through the existing and new fabric of the building. Continue reading David Leech

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David Leech

Belsize Park House . London

David Leech Architects . + AJ

Built in 1878 by William Willet, 27 Belsize Crescent was a large end-of-terrace townhouse that formed the last part of a speculative crescent in Hampstead. Even when it was built, the decadent classical design was considered unfashionable and too grand for the more urban aristocratic population, and by 1901 the house was already being used as a boarding house for the area’s more artistic and intellectual classes. Continue reading David Leech