Commended Suburban Loft, Surbiton

摘要

'This one really makes a statement,' said McFarland. 'It's dramatic, you just think -wow,' In a 21st century update to The Good Life, 'Thorn', 'Margo' and kids are swapping Shoreditch for Surbiton where he can ditch the motorbike for a BMW and she can plant vegetables. Drummond's design appropriates and updates familiar tropes of suburban architecture: traditional red brickwork and detailing; asymmetrical composition and massing; an oversized full arch entrance and feature bull's-eye windows. Even the suburban mock-Tudor aesthetic has been acknowledged and upgraded to a more up-to-the-minute look by exposing the black steel frame structure. This design assumes that a new generation of ex-city-living professionals favour the aesthetic of the urban industrial warehouse conversions they left behind.