Local architecture firm Carmody Groarke has taken over a design project to renovate the Covent Garden Apartment. The penthouse space in London features slanted panels of aluminum in order to form sheltered rooftop terraces. The top two levels are altered in order to make the space more suitable for family life. It has an open-plan living area which is joined by skylights integrated between the original roof trusses.

Carmody Groarke shared, “To the rear of the landlocked site, the new rooftop pavilion extends the loft space, housing a new kitchen inside and a sheltered roof terrace outside. It takes the familiar form of a pitched roof extension with generous openings and is designed to balance lightly on top of the existing London stock-brick annexe. Its monolithic sheet metal plates appear to lean against one another in a state of structural equilibrium where solid metal plates achieve perfect balance.”

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