There can be few clearer examples than this project of how housing architects revisit and reinvent old ideas. This new street of row houses in outer London goes back to 18th- and 19th-century precedents in the shadow of the 1960s towers that they are partly replacing.
British architects have been designing alternatives to high-rise social housing since the late 1960s (see my review of Cook’s Camden), in recent years often adopting the form of the high-density courtyard-based development or mid-rise block. Dujardin Mews is different. Designed by architects Karakusevic Carson with MaccreanorLavington, it is a full-blooded return to the idea of the traditional street of attached houses. But unlike some other developments in the UK—especially in rural areas—it is not traditionalist in style.
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