16 apartments overlooking a small park close to Tate Modern, varying from 1 bed flats to 3 bedroom rooftop apartments. Basement parking is provided and a new nursery space takes up the ground floor area. Uniquely, the site overlooks a neighbourhood park, and also has views north to the city and west to the Southbank. Its abstracted design resulted from looking carefully at its architecturally diverse context. The massing has been separated into 2 distinct buildings, with the nursery at street level would enlivening the local streetscape. The north building is taller and is related to the park and the south building is lower, at the scale of local streets in the area. The composition of ?2 buildings is important in breaking down the massing to clearly express two blocks, rather than one. At ground level, the public connection with the street is key in relating the building to it’s context. This overtly generous and open plan element of the building has been designed to connect rather than create barriers. The two blocks are served by a central circulation core with connecting bridges, and form a skewed ‘H’ plan. The apartment layouts orientate themselves to the particular areas of the park, streets and vistas. All living areas connect to particular views, with the bedrooms being deeper in the plans. Horizontally, the apartment types vary in size and type, responding to their siting within the plan. Vertically the types also vary to include ‘simple’ timber rooftop pavilions, a horizontal ‘gallery plan’ apartment and a rooftop penthouse. The facade system, manufactured in Switzerland, is designed as a unified system which can respond to differing orientations. Openings in it are made at the scale of a warehouse door, as many such buildings still remain in the area. In essence, the building could be seen as the negative of a warehouse – the walls are transparent and the openings are solid. The external full height opening doors can be opened or closed to help control the internal environment.