Buttress Architects

Icon 25 provides 119 one, two and three bed apartments of varying sizes from first to sixth floor with retail, work and leisure accommodation at ground floor level and parking below.
The private inner courtyard and recessed domestic balconies are treated with light-reflecting white brickwork. This helps articulate the area's private nature, and contrasts with the street-facing facade which has been designed with dark, plum brickwork.
The existing dense and varied urban fabric is complemented by the use of traditional materials, detailed in a simplified, contemporary manner with the overall massing articulated in a similarly streamlined way.