Levring House

The Project

Located in the Bloomsbury Conservation area, this bold brick house infills a vacant corner plot to complete an historic mews. The new house was developed around a reinterpretation of the London lightwell.

A series of volumes step up from the basement to the top of the house, wrapping around the lightwell and opening the whole house to daylight. The internal interlocking volumes create a house of complexity yet with a sense of calm simplicity.

Internally, the house’s concrete frame is exposed in ceilings and columns.

The exterior is clad in brick and bronze. The bricks, yellow in tone, were handmade in Denmark; some bricks show the thumb prints of their craftsmen.

The lightwell descends right down into the basement, where there is a 14m pool lined with marble.

Photography ©Olivier Hess & ©Dennis Gilbert/VIEW

Awards

RIBA Award Winner, 2015
Shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year, 2015
Camden Design Award Winner, 2015
Shortlisted for WAN House of the Year, 2015
Shortlisted for Blueprint Awards, 2015

Press

Elle Decoration, 2016

The Architectural Review – Daniel Rosbottom

Wallpaper* – Ellie Stathaki

Dezeen – Amy Frearson

Model

Sketches

On Site

Collaborators

Mechanical and Electrical Engineers: Mendick Waring
Structural Engineers: Eckersley O’Callaghan
Lighting Designer: PJC Lighting Studio
Contract Administrator, Project Manager, QS: Norman Rourke Pryme