Join Open City Friends for this architect-led tour of Costa’s Barbers.
A high street shop on Battersea High Street, recently converted into a home with a continued, strengthened and adaptable relationship to its street - allowing the former shop floor to be used for commercial or public purposes when desired. Currently occupied as both home and architecture studio, the project was collaboratively self-built by its designers. Undertaken as a collaborative project between Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries, with Brisco Loran now occupying the space, both as home and studio.
This visit to the project/shop will last approximately 45 minutes.
Speaking of the street, Brisco Loran said:
In addition to the public visual and spatial links, the shopfront is designed to be enjoyed by the surrounding community of residents, shopkeepers, and stallholders. Working on the street as they passed by; they watched us install the patterned glass work, they guessed the nature of the quartered snooker table leg cornice, encouraged our third coat of yellow, and paused to chat about forgotten shops as the signwriting appeared. These emotional links are at the core of the high street’s importance, and we hope that this shop can continue to play a role in the ongoing story of life on this special street.
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Please note this tour is for Open City Friends only, please contact friends@open-city.org.uk for more information.
