Stirling Work
Buying a home designed by a world-renowned architect is beyond the reach of most Londoners. So, fans of modern architecture will rejoice at the opportunity to buy one of two homes designed by the late Sir James Stirling – a British architect so legendary that the annual Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) prize is named after him – and James Gowan.
A One-Bedroom, Ground-Floor Apartment
© The Modern House and Meryvn Smith
Buying a home designed by a world-renowned architect is beyond the reach of most Londoners. So, fans of modern architecture will rejoice at the opportunity to buy one of two homes designed by the late Sir James Stirling – a British architect so legendary that the annual Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) prize is named after him – and James Gowan. The apartment blocks at Langham House, Ham TW10, were designed in 1955 and are Grade II* listed. Now a sought-after address, the development was described as “a benchmark against which other apartment blocks can be measured” by Eva Branscome of conservation group the Twentieth Century Society.
A One-Bedroom, Ground-Floor Apartment
© The Modern House and Meryvn Smith
A one-bedroom, ground-floor apartment is available, share of freehold, for £360,000 with Mervyn Smith (www.mervynsmith.co.uk), and a two-bedroom, first-floor apartment is available for £490,000 with The Modern House (viewing day Saturday, May 20, www.themodernhouse.com).
Stirling On Show
An architectural ‘clash of titans’, the current exhibition at the RIBA explores the unrealised plans of ‘less is more’ Mies van der Rohe for a 19-storey tower block at No. 1 Poultry in the heart of the City, with its Post-Modern Grade II*-listed successor by James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates.
It’s a story that spans decades: from the early 1960s when the Mies scheme was commissioned by Lord Palumbo, to the eventual completion of the current building in 1997, after the death of both principal architects. The exhibition features models and drawings and offers a glimpse of what might have been.
Mies van der Rohe and James Stirling:
Circling the Square Until June 25 – free entry
www.architecture.com
A One-Bedroom, Ground-Floor Apartment
© The Modern House and Meryvn Smith
