Tall & Urban News

Architect pH+ has won approval for two housing towers on a former gasholder site in Enfield, north London. The practice said all 182 homes in the Station Road development, for City & Suburban Homes, will be dual aspect and that the scheme has been designed to be built using modular units fabricated off-site.

The "high-density living" proposal, which also includes commercial space and public, shared and private amenity spaces, was conceived to be dissembled and reused with non-loadbearing internal walls allowing layouts to be "re-arranged in future retrofits."

Each tower features triple-height cut-outs containing children’s play space and communal areas for residents. The design also proposes green spaces on the rooftops within the extension of the buildings’ exoskeleton.

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