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The Experimental Station

Project Details

£250,000 to £499,999

New Build

Practice

51 Architecture

1A Cobham Mews , London , NW1 9SB , United Kingdom

The Experimental Station in Dungeness was used as a research establishment testing marine apparatus and is now a site of special scientific interest. Collaborating with Johnson Naylor, 51 architecture created a new assembly of eco buildings around a common courtyard shared with existing structures that included a small railway, a radio tower and a fog horn testing structure. The cedar clad architecture is a minimalist approach to the language of the old and new, designed to age sympathetically with the surrounding landscape. Mentioned in the Sunday Times as “A near-perfect architectural piece - the muted driftwood-grey boxes are weathering beautifully”