Clerkenwell
A district that made things, and kept the deep plots and tall windows that making required.
The District
Clerkenwell made clocks, print, gin and jewellery, and it built the fabric to suit: deep plots, tall openings, floors loaded for machinery rather than furniture. When the manufacturing left, what remained was accidentally the best-proportioned stock in central London, because a building designed to get daylight onto a workbench turns out to be a very good building to live and work in.
New work here has to answer to that. The floor-to-floor heights around us are generous, the windows are large, and a mean building is immediately obvious. It is the most demanding district we build in, and the most rewarding.
