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City Curator's Collection: Home: Simple Faces, Complex Minds

Our collection is centred around ‘home’ ; its different forms, hidden in plain sight and the journey we take through it.

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Brut House

residence

The project was to build a south facing, upside-down, partially underground, passive, airtight, low-energy, infill-urban brutalist home, that would allow our family to stay within our local community.

Zac Monro Architects, 2019

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Good Growth in Angel Edmonton

community/cultural

Welcoming visitors to Angel Edmonton to explore a number of newly developed places and spaces that are helping steward the area through significant change. Delivered by Enfield Council with support from the Mayor of London.

Jan Kattein + Fisher Cheng, 2023

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Havant House 53

residence

A victorian mid terrace house with a dark blue exterior and a zany tiled front garden. Full of original features without being dictated by the era, colour continues inside with a yellow rubber floor in the kitchen.

Natasha Landers (Designer), 1910

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Home of Jermaine Gallacher

residence

Jermaine Gallacher is an interior designer, product designer and design dealer renowned for his offbeat and distinctive style. His home within a nineteenth century Peabody block, houses his extensive personal collection.

John Douglas, 1886

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Home: Simple Faces, Complex Minds

community/cultural

We will Solve the Riddle, Match the House and Freeze the Art, where you will all have the opportunity to interact with and contribute to a live art piece. Our aim is for you to leave with a renewed sense of home and the ability to reimagine what home means to you.

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Ikigai_12 Hickin Street

residence

Building tour for a house_Ikigai _12 Hickin Street

Studio9 Architects, 2022

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Lexi Cinema

cinema, community/cultural

A contemporary extension to the Lexi Cinema, providing a 2nd screen. The building is a composition of brick and stainless steel; a nod to the parapets of surrounding terraces and reflecting the ever-changing sky above.

RISE Design Studio, 2021

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Pope's Grotto

historical house, monument, miscellaneous, community/cultural

Grotto with mineral decoration is last remaining part of Alexander Pope's villa built 1720. The villa was demolished 1808 and replaced and redeveloped many times in following years but Pope's Grotto remains.

Alexander Pope, William Kent, 1720

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Sun Rain Rooms

architectural practice, offices, residence

Set in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse, Tonkin Liu's studio has been extended. Designed and built by the practice, an innovative timber roof and reflecting pool gathers the bouncing rain, to make it a good place to be on a bad day.

Tonkin Liu, 2017

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The Tin Tabernacle / Cambridge Hall

community/cultural

Built 1863 - a large corrugated iron chapel. Inside was transformed after the last war into a battleship by local sailors for Sea Cadets. It has decks, portholes a Bofors Gun and alter from the set of the 1964 film Becket.

Unknown, 1863

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Tin House

residence

Making efficient use of an irregular urban site, this house is made up of interconnecting top-lit pavilions arranged to define a tranquil private courtyard.

Henning Stummel Architects, 2015