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Architect Featherstone Young has served up a new building with character and purpose, on a Limited budget and a difficult site, for a charity for the homeless. Owen Pritchard pays a visit to the Dellow Centre
Just off Brick Lane, on Wentworth Street in London's East End, is the Dellow Centre, new premises of the charity Providence Row that supports the homeless in Tower Hamlets and the City of London. London-based architect Featherstone Young has just completed a new arts and activity building on a site opposite the charity's exisiting facilities, built in the Eighties.
They appointed us because we were local,' says Sarah Featherstone, director of Featherstone Young. Tm not sure how familiar they were with our other work, but they wanted an architect who really understood the local area.' Featherstone Young has undertaken jobs with a sensitive brief and hugely specific requirements from the client with great success in the past, exercising great rigour in understanding the client's needs and finding a suitable design response.
The original brief from Providence Row had been for a two-storey building, but it was reworked to incorporate a third. Featherstone Young has delivered a cheerfulyet robust 367 sq m building in just 11 months that makes the...