Forty Avenue, Wembley
June 2009, London
The building is conceived as a moving horizontal and vertical element, which uses facade relief and banding to disguise the mass of the building. The building is worked up from 4 floors at its lowest point to 10 storeys to the tower.
The building is focused towards the SW corner of the site but also stretches out to form a relationship with the adjacent residential block.
The new scheme creates 94 aprtments, broken into apartment sizes of: 25 x 1B/2P (45m2), 27 x 2B/3P (55m2), 28 x 2B/4P (65m2) and 14 x 3B/5P (80m2). All parking is underground off the avenue, with shared amenity space of 1540m2 created around the new building. The building has two main staircase cores either end of the building with the tower core having a fully compliant disabled lift. The overall site area is 2625m2.
