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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.

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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.

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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.

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To read more on modernism in architecture

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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 )

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ST OLAVES COURT

ST PETERSBURGH PLACE

LONDON

W24JY

UK

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