OGA ended of a negative planning history for this constrained site. Within the Stroud Green Conservation Area, the local authority had previously refused all development on the grounds of eroding the gap between terraces of perpendicular streets. The successful concept was a low-slung but generous urban oasis, comprising alternate private courtyards and volumes. The new volumes will vary in height and materiality, with irregular, taller forms clad in dark, standing-seam zinc, with lower volumes in soft neutrals, varying only in texture. It will be a polite but surprising building, whose series of ethereal spaces will be in flux with the time of day and the seasons.