Featured projects
We’ve curated some of the projects we’re most proud of, together with their backstory, to give an insight into how we design and evolve buildings that are appropriate to their context and create vibrant new places to live.
Since establishing Assael Architecture in 1994, our experience has included everything from large mixed-use masterplans to innovative and bespoke interiors, and everything else in between.
We’ve curated some of the projects we’re most proud of, together with their backstory, to give an insight into how we design and evolve buildings that are appropriate to their context and create vibrant new places to live.
A pioneering 249-home Build to Rent development that includes the UK’s first private rented building designed specifically for families, an array of residents’ amenities and an extensive public realm along Deptford Creek.
Accommodating 53 luxury homes, the development was designed to transition between the domestic scale of the listed residences around Kensington Square and the civic scale of Kensington High Street, whilst responding to its immediate historic context.
Queen’s Wharf has united two disparate riverside sites - a derelict office building and the world-famous Riverside Studios - to create a cohesive and vibrant mixed-use development in the setting of the Grade II listed Hammersmith Bridge.
Forming the first phase of the collaborative Bromley-by-Bow South masterplan, this development focuses around a new community-led urban square to deliver 491 Build to Rent homes for the emerging area.
A heritage-led development that reimagines the industrial site surrounding the Grade II listed Ham Mill to provide 100 new homes and bring life and enterprise back to the site after 18 years of vacancy.
Reviving the site of the former Ross Optical Works, this new residential ‘village’ in the heart of Clapham Old Town weaves contemporary architecture of five new buildings into the sensitive conversion of six nineteenth century warehouses.
The successful revival of a vulnerable cultural asset – a Grade II* listed Granada Cinema – through the careful preservation and restoration of its auditorium and by the integration of 59 new apartments.
As part of Canada Water’s regeneration, Quebec Way, distinguished by its complex and meticulously detailed hit-and-miss brickwork, brings an array of new homes and enhanced biodiversity to Southwark.
At only 17m wide and rising to 78m tall, the Great Northern Tower was one of the first modern additions to Manchester’s changing skyline, and marked a renaissance for people choosing to live in the city centre.
Pontoon Dock in the Royal Docks is being developed as part of the covenant to relieve pressure on the capital’s housing market, raise the standards of private renting and deliver a mix of homes for the local area.
Blackhorse Mills is L&G’s flagship Build to Rent development that regenerates the former Ferry Lane Industrial Estate on the edge of Walthamstow’s reservoirs into an environmentally-sensitive scheme of 479 homes designed specifically for rent.
This scheme transforms the Royal Academy of Dance into 39 new homes, retaining the site’s character through the conversion of the old Granary whilst adding a contemporary touch with the industrial-style architecture of new buildings.
Combining modern interiors with the existing fabric of the Grade II listed National Building to restore activity to St Mary’s Parsonage and create 121 homes overlooking the River Irwell in Central Manchester.
Focused around the Grade II listed Wallis House, Great West Quarter provides 900 apartments, cafés, restaurants, a convenience store, créche, fitness centre, surgery, art gallery, hotel and business space, all surrounding a 1.1 hectare public piazza.