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Haworth Tompkins completes £3.3m flats for Pocket

By 2021-11-08T06:00:00

HaworthTompkins_Gardner Close Wanstead (12)

Pink and green scheme references listed 1930s neighbour

Haworth Tompkins has completed its second project for Pocket Living, a block of 20 one-bed flats on an infill site in east London.

The £3.3m scheme, Gardner Close near Wanstead High Street in Redbridge, is aimed at first-time buyers.

The brick block uses a simple palette with distinctive metalwork juliet balconies, screens and gates in pink and green said to have been inspired by leaves, with some designed to double as trellises.

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