Park Crescent Apartment

This project involved the complete reimagining of a 230-square-metre apartment concealed behind the iconic, Grade I listed, stucco façade of Park Crescent, designed by John Nash in the early nineteenth century. While the façade is historically protected at the highest level, the structure behind it is a mid-century concrete slab reconstruction, built following wartime damage to the original building.

The intervention began by stripping back layers of later additions to reveal the underlying structural framework. All internal fittings and finishes were removed, allowing the spatial logic of the concrete frame and the geometry of the crescent to inform a new layout. The apartment’s plan reads as a curved segment, and a key design consideration was how this subtle curvature could be embedded within the organisation of rooms and circulation. Rather than resisting the arc, the new plan embraces it, using the curved form to shape thresholds, align vistas and choreograph movement through the apartment.

The reconfigured layout introduces two guest bedrooms and a master suite, alongside a generous open-plan kitchen, dining and study space, complemented by a separate secondary kitchen. Bespoke elements including sliding steel-framed windows, walnut joinery and a custom basket weave parquet floor were designed in response to the proportions and character of the curved plan, framing key views towards Regent’s Park beyond.

Completed in late 2022, the project reveals the building’s layered history while creating a highly tailored contemporary interior, where historic façade, modern structure and crafted detail are brought into dialogue.