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HERRINGBONE HOUSES

Alison Brooks Architects' recently completed two-house residential development in Wandsworth has been
awarded an RIBA London Award. Named "Herringbone Houses" for the unique patterning to the timber
façades, each 400sqm open-plan house is composed of two surfaces of herringbone timber and graphite
render that extend from exterior to interior to form walls, floors, external decking and fences. 

These planes interlock and fold inward at the centre of the house to create a double height entrance hall
open to the sky. The project has also received a 2008 Civic Trust Award and Wandsworth Design Award.


> Client: Alex Wingate
> Architect: ABA: Alison Brooks, MIchael Woodford, James Taylor
> Phase 1 Contractor: Unimead Ltd
> Phase 2 Contractor: Kaymac Construction
> Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
> Mechanical and Electrical/Health & Safety: Peter Deer & Associates
> Quantity Surveyor: Carruth Marshall Partnership
> Landscape Architect: Christopher Bradley-Hole