West End Offices Reconversion to Apartments Emrys Architects

2014-03-06 01:00

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埃姆斯建筑师在伦敦西区牛津街附近建造了一座宁静的当代公寓楼。

Emrys Architects creates tranquil contemporary apartment building off Oxford Street in London’s West End.

最近，伦敦市中心的规划政策发生了变化，使得改变一些建筑物的使用变得更容易，这导致了一些美妙的市中心生活。

A recent shift in planning policy in Central London, making it easier to change the use of some buildings, has resulted in some fantastic city-centre living.

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上世纪70年代，我们在伦敦西区牛津街(Oxford Street)以北的一处保护区内建造了一栋不吸引人、疲惫不堪的办公楼，建造了16套私人公寓和7套负担得起的当代

We have taken an unattractive, tired 1970s office building in a conservation area just North of Oxford Street in London’s West End and created sixteen private and seven affordable contemporary residential apartments.

我们的方案在纽曼街引入了一块石头覆盖的立面，重新塑造了现有的水平带，以形成阳台，使它能够舒适地坐在垂直的格鲁吉亚街道模式内。后面的立面，坐落在一个由车间式建筑居住的梅斯规模的街道景观中，被渲染和木材覆盖铝窗加强半工业街道的场景。

Our scheme introduced a stone-clad elevation on Newman Street, re-modelling existing horizontal bands to form balconies allowing it to sit comfortably within the vertical Georgian street pattern. The rear elevation, which sits in a mews-scale streetscape populated by workshop-type buildings, is rendered and timber clad with aluminium windows reinforcing the semi-industrial street scene.

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现有的建筑没有节能措施，因此，通过仔细地重复使用混凝土框架和引入相对便宜的绿色特征，埃姆斯建筑师创造了非常高效的21世纪住宅。

The existing building had no energy saving measures so by careful re-use of the concrete frame and introduction of relatively inexpensive green features Emrys Architects created very efficient 21st century homes.

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公共艺术已被纳入这座建筑的设计之中。艺术家苔丝·贾雷，他的作品可以在泰特和V上看到

Public art has been incorporated into the design of the building. Artist Tess Jaray whose work can be seen at the Tate and the V&A has applied a unique striped terrazzo design to the front entrance steps. This theme continues inside the reception area and common parts of the building with a geometric design created from the same terrazzo. The walls of the common area are lined with her distinctive prints.

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这些公寓的面积很大，特别是在它们的位置上，两层的顶层公寓感觉非常宽敞，每间240平方米和120平方米，大型私人露台在伦敦各地都能欣赏到令人惊叹的景色。干净的设计增强了这种开放性的感觉。这些顶层公寓有“似乎无足轻重”的白色浴室，石灰石地板流入科里安单元，豪华的独立浴室。厨房的台面是白色的玻璃-看起来像从胡桃地板上升起的全白岛。

The flats are generously sized especially for their location, the penthouses being planned on two floors feel very spacious at 240 m2 and 120 m2 each with large private terraces enjoying stunning views across London. The clean design augments this feeling of openness. The penthouses have ‘seemless’ white bathrooms with limestone floors flowing into Corian units and luxurious stand alone baths. The kitchen countertops are white glass - the all-white island appearing to rise from the walnut floors.

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街角附近是熙熙攘攘的商店和餐馆，大楼仍保留着一楼的办公用房，但公寓却是平静而安静的。从阁楼的露台，你可以看到屋顶从议会大厦到英国电信大厦。

The bustle of shops and restaurants are around the corner and the building still retains office accommodation on the ground floor but the apartments are calm and quiet. From the penthouse terraces, you can see over the roof tops from the Houses of Parliament to the BT Tower.