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60's Modernism
Overview

The building features an elegant modernist exterior with gardens to the front and rear.  It consists of fifteen apartments arranged over seven storeys above a basement garage with two flats on each floor and a large penthouse on the roof with expansive terraces.

Each flat consists of three bedrooms which face the quiet courtyard garden at the rear.

A large living room faces a full width balcony to the front of the building. The two garden apartments also have large terraces overlooking the courtyard garden at the rear.

St Olaves Court
 

St Olaves Court is a modernist residential apartment building in Bayswater in Central London, just by Kensington Gardens. It was designed by the architects Andrews, Emmerson & Sherlock in 1960-61.  Andrews, Emmerson & Sherlock were eminent proponents of modernist British architecture in the 1960s.

To read more on modernism in architecture

References:

  • Apartment floor plan ( MPH Architects )

  • Garden Plan ( Henrietta Parsons , 2006 ) 

  • History of Bayswater ( British History Online )

  • Historic Photos of Bayswater ( Lancaster Close,  City of London, London Metropolitan Archives, Collage, The London Picture Archives )

  • Information on bombing ( Bomb Sight, Mapping of WWII bombs )

  • Modernism in architecture ( RIBA  architecture.com )

  • Original building plans and layouts ( The Architect & Building News, 5 June 1963  V,  223/23 )

  • Photos of building exterior,  gardens, Kensington Gardens and interior of the Greek Cathedral ( Antonia Konzotis )

  • Photos of interiors ( Dale Loth Architects, MPH Architects,  Antonia Konzotis )

  • Renovation plans ( IMAGO Architects, 2005 )

  • Sherlock Interview ( Vimeo, Utopia London, 12/07/2016 )

  • Sherlock Obituary ( The Guardian 25/05/2014, The Times 27/06/2014, CPRE 2024, Islington Tribune, May 2014 ) 

  • Website design and development ( Antonia Konzotis )

ST OLAVES COURT

ST PETERSBURGH PLACE

LONDON

W24JY

UK

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