2015 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Cashel Street Townhouses
High-density residential developments are often shoehorned onto a site with regrettable consequences. However, these houses have been skilfully arranged to complement and improve the character of the street. The simple gable forms belong to a longstanding architectural tradition of pitched roofs and clipped eaves in Canterbury. This gives these buildings a sense of familiarity, but in this case the architectural language is especially imaginative and refreshing. The external walls are off-the-shutter, pre-cast concrete panels showing the imprint of the rough timber moulds. The canopies over the windows and doors are chunky painted steel and the bin store door on the front unit is an industrial roller shutter door. If you described these materials to people who hadn’t seen the building, they could be forgiven for expecting something quite brutal. However, there is a distinct lightness of touch in the design and execution which gives the quite the opposite impression.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing
- Location
- Canterbury
