The intention for this project was to produce eight sustainable homes, and an office unit, with generous social spaces, good daylight, robust attractive materials and innovative contemporary design that contextually integrates with the local area. The lower walls are in buff-yellow bricks, which meet the upper white acrylic render to show the outline of the previous building on the site, the Crown Public House. The bronze-anodised aluminium clad balconies - a fractal reduction of this outline - are half glazed (for views to the adjacent park) and half metal-panel clad. Anodised aluminium panels clad the northwest-facing projecting-bay. The geometry of the projecting-bay is echoed in the splays to the window reveals, the 4th floor angled living room wall, the south-facing ground level extended area, and the garden walls, for a unified feel. The window splays supply modeling and depth to the facades and improve daylight levels and views. To elegantly achieve these splays, at various angles, special bricks were produced (by carefully cutting bricks and joining with epoxy resin). Reception/ kitchens are triple aspect. The stair/ lift hall benefits from full-width high-performance glazing to walls and ceiling. Air source heat pumps provide all underfloor space heating and hot water to the flats. Thermal insulation levels well exceed current building regulations; extensive green sedum roofing and many other environmental features have been introduced. Best standards of inclusive internal layout (the flats, communal spaces and facilities are to Lifetime Homes criteria and Islington Accessible Housing SPD requirements) and Code For Sustainable Homes Level 3 achieved. The initial brief was for the remodeling and extension of the existing building, but this was subsequently changed to a new-build project. The planners encouraged using the well-received remodeling scheme as the basis for the design of the new-build proposal. The structure is of loadbearing masonry walls with floors of precast concrete panels in a steel frame. The ground floor flat has a north-facing terrace (with matching brickwork and bespoke metal railings), as a buffer zone between Copenhagen Street and the living/ kitchen room. Both bedrooms open onto the south-facing garden, with an area of cantilevered roof over. Flats 2 – 7 have 6 sq m balconies, extending the living/ kitchen spaces and supplying good views of the local Barnard Park. The bedrooms of Flats 2 and 3 overlook sedum green-roofed terraces. The 4th floor Flat 8 has a wrap-around stone paved terrace, with direct access from all habitable rooms. The angled living/ kitchen room wall supplies external dining space with cantilevered roof cover. Sliding bronze-anodised doors and frameless glazed corner windows connect the bedrooms to the terrace. The building has been studied by students from the London Metropolitan University, and used as a case study for their sustainability and environmental architecture course; featured in London Open House 2014.