Summit House, St Katherine’s Way, E1
December 12th, 2010
This is a building I like, featured in an article for Building Design magazine.
Click photo for location from Google Earth
A company has taken over the building in question and are going to convert it from flats into a single riverside house. I don’t have a take on this, I like the building. My complaints on this blog are about poorly designed and managed housing. This is a private house by the river, what’s not to like? I like the Art Deco reference of the semicircular staircase (think Bexhill). There is a similar one in Rotherhithe diagonally opposite about half a mile away.
Details here in the D&A downloaded from the Tower Hamlets planning department:-
Wow, that’ll be quite a house. Slightly cluttered appearance I think.
I like the way the stairwell ever so slightly resembles a suburban semi’s round bay window. Not sure if that was intentional though.
It has a remarkably similar twin diagonally opposite at Rotherhithe near the Mayflower pub, which is black and white and in a similar style. I like both and it will make an attractive if pricy residence for someone. If there were a competition with the house as a prize, I’d enter.