Client: Newlon Housing Trust |
Architect: Cartwright Pickard |
Contractor: Kier, London |
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Project: Hornsey Street, London
As part of the Arsenal regeneration project, the Newlon Housing Trust has built 164 apartments in four blocks at 9-17 Hornsey Street to provide key worker accommodation. Hubbard supplied balconies in galvanised and painted mild steel with steel balustrade, perforated infill panels and timber decking. Balconies also have moveable timber screens to provide shade.
What we did: The Results
High quality housing is essential to attract key workers to the area and as such, was a requirement of this redevelopment which is in close proximity to the new stadium for Arsenal Football Club.
The balconies manufactured by Hubbard were of hot dipped galvanised and painted mild steel with timber decking, steel balustrade and perforated infill panels. Each balcony also incorporates a moveable timber screen to provide shade. In its earlier design, the external tubular steelwork was intended to be a support to some of the balconies. When the balconies were redesigned to be self supporting through a cantilever from the slab, the external metalwork or filigree structure as it was known was retained as a design feature.
Hubbard also manufactured the steel walkways at the rear of the buildings. These were hot dipped galvanised only but also had a powder coated mild steel balustrade system incorporating perforated infill panels. Since the walkways were used for access during the building’s construction, careful scheduling of production and installation was required to fit the main programme requirements.
Additional metalwork supplied included powder coated mild steel balustrade to the core stairs, steel canopies and balustrade with timber screens to the podium overlooking the roadway.