| Architect |
PLP and Benson & Forsyth LLP |
| Date
Built |
Circa 2017 |
| Location |
Victoria
Street and Buckingham Palace Road |
| Description |
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PLP say of this building that their design
was intended to, "... drive
engagement and foot traffic into an area
once inaccessible by the public and we
have broken the buildings down in both
form and shape. To inform their massing,
we devised a simple and versatile
geometry: four-sided polygons cut
diagonally to form triangles. These
triangles were extruded and sculpted to
respond to sensitive historical
views. Two office and one
residential building step down towards
the lower historic fabric to the west
and rise towards the east. The
undulations of the external ripple
across the façades, producing an effect
of persistent oscillation as one crosses
the site. At street level, the facade
has been selectively pulled back to
reveal storefronts and covered arcades." Not everyone agrees
with this characterisation. Oliver
Wainwright, writing in the Guardian in
September of 2017 described it as, "...
A bright red preening cockerel':
Nova building crowned UK's ugliest.
Worthy winner of Carbuncle Cup,
£380m complex outside Victoria
station embodies overblown
‘crystalline’ lumps in vogue on
drawing boards a decade ago."
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The residential portion of the Nova development, located along Buckingham Palace Road, describes itself as, "... ultra-modern, beautifully engineered and architecturally daring. A statement for living amid the grandeur of Westminster and Belgravia. ,,,, Designed by critically acclaimed architecture firm Benson & Forsyth LLP, the building exterior establishes itself with a bold statement to match the city’s contemporary landscape. ..... The building’s beautiful interior has been designed by FLINT London throughout"  |
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Nova,
Victoria, London
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