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I’m back from my favourite city

North London blossoms 🌸

Black Truffle in England Lane, London, 2021, acrylic on canvas paper, 508x405mm, available

66 Frognal, Hampstead, London, NW3  [1938 & 2000] _ Architects: Connell, Ward and Lucas & Avanti Architects _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [08.06.2022]. "This Grade II* listed house was designed by Colin Lucas of Connell, Ward and Lucas, and completed in 1938. The property had deteriorated significantly due to persistent lack of maintenance by a previous owner. Avanti Architects was commissioned by its new owner in 2000 to design and specify a full scheme of repair, upgrade and alteration works. The house had already undergone changes prior to listing, with addition of an integral swimming pool and in-filling of a roof terrace to provide a new master bedroom suite. These alterations were rebuilt with the approval of English Heritage in a manner sympathetic to the original design, and Listed Building Consent was granted. 66 Frognal is now a state-of-the-art 21st century home that can once again be recognised as an outstanding building of its period." https://avantiarchitects.co.uk/project/66-frognal/ "The original design of 66 Frognal was heavily influenced by Le Corbusier and incorporates all of his Five Points of Modern Architecture. In short, it stands raised on pilotis, with a free plan and a free facade, ribbon windows and a roof terrace. The house is also constructed from reinforced concrete, with a western facade lacking in ornament, described by the agent as ‘an expanse of render and balanced fenestration interrupted by the protruding void of the internal staircase’." https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2019/02/12/1930s-connell-ward-lucas-designed-66-frognal-modernist-house-in-london-nw3/

Hampstead, London, England, UK