Wimshurst Pelleriti has completed the 14-storey tower in south London that prompted the practice’s founders to set up a new studio and quit their jobs at RSHP.

Will Wimshurst and Leo Pelleriti began work on the £10m Diamond Wharf scheme in 2013, aware that the Battersea development site would require a “building of real design quality and exceptional environmental credentials” to justify rising nine storeys above the local plan’s recommended height.

In addition to 33 new apartments, the Gwynne Road scheme features distinctive red brise soleil and delivers three floors of commercial space at its lower levels.

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