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Visage and Swiss Cottage Cultural Centre
London
The Visage development in Swiss Cottage combines a luxury apartment block with affordable housing and high-quality leisure facilities for use by the wider community. Designed by Terry Farrell & Partners.
In an area of four storey terraces and large villas which has been subject to some post-war redevelopment with council flat towers on adjoining sites, this mixed use redevelopment of obsolete leisure facilities owned by the London Borough of Camden has cleverly provided, via a public private partnership, a surprising number of high quality facilities for the local community.
Financed through the sale of luxury apartments and penthouses, the scheme features a high quality leisure centre with a swimming pool, ball game courts and gymnasia, a major new open space including five-a-side all-weather football pitch, community centre and doctors' surgery, and retains a Grade II listed modern library building.
Forty two affordable housing units are provided, some forming an unusual 'street in the sky' on top of the leisure centre, others incorporated into a landmark building which offers 124 luxury apartments and penthouses, and visually links the scheme with surrounding buildings very successfully.
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