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Apt follows in Fosters’ footsteps with craned-in addition to Mendelsohn villa

By 2020-12-08T07:00:00

Close-up Apt extension to 64 Old Church St Chelsea by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff

Source: Apt

Modular extension to listed Chelsea icon completed in two weeks

Apt has completed an extension to one of the UK’s most important modernist houses, 64 Old Church Street in Chelsea.

The new intervention at the north end, a self-contained flat, was made off-site, craned in and completed in a fortnight.

It bookends the famous low-slung white villa with an earlier intervention, a 1992 conservatory at the south end, by Norman Foster who studied at Yale under Erich Mendelsohn.

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