SLG Fire Station

While at 6a architects I acted as project architect for the South London Gallery Fire Station, a new wing of the South London Gallery, across the road from their main campus.The Fire Station, a Grade II* Listed Building and the oldest surviving purpose-built fire station in London, was an almost complete ruin at the time the project began. With a leaking roof and extensive dry rot, our project was to sympathetically restore every last timber, while comprehensively upgrading and modernising the building envelope. Double height spaces were created and a new steel and concrete staircase and elevator linked all four floors of the building. These grand moves aside, the design was kept as simple and as possible. Brick, timber joists and floorboards were exposed where possible, otherwise a simple palette of white prevails, with elegant detailing and brass ironmongery.