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The Printworks is an award-winning complex of ten apartments
and four studio/retail units. It was one of the first
mixed-use developments to be completed under the framework
plan and was intended to develop a guiding principle
of the plan - the creative use of existing buildings
and gap sites to increase the residential population.
The site for this project is an L-shaped section of
the Temple Lane / Eustace Street block. Elements to
be retained were the early 20th century façade
of the printworks on Temple lane along with the majority
of 18th century building on East Essex Street.
The diversity of these retained elements has been exploited
and then complemented through new construction to form
a prototypical urban type - the raised courtyard. Below
this courtyard three independent shops, with street
frontage, exist. This semi-public space mediates between
the ten apartments, which all have access to roof gardens,
either private or semi-private, and the shops below.
A two-floor design studio, originally fitted out for
John Rocha, also exists within the structure of the
original Temple lane printworks building.
See interview with Justin
Callahan, resident of the Printworks
See a 360 view of the courtyard of the Printworks here
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