The green spaces of Victoria Park and the Regent’s Canal path are a few minutes’ walk to the south. Nearby, Well Street market is now open weekly, and Broadway Market has a reputation for some excellent places to eat and drink and hosts a food market on Saturdays. There are many fantastic restaurants locally, notably Raw Duck and Lardo on Richmond Road, and Pidgin and Violet on Wilton Way. The Button Factory is well-positioned on a quiet residential street in central Hackney, just to the east of the popular London Fields and bustling Mare Street.
This entrance is shared with the artists’ studios. Access to the top floor is gained via a large industrial-style door with intercom to each flat. The renovation has seen the creation of a courtyard at the front of the building, with Sheffield stands for bike storage and an attractive planting scheme. The roof extension has a combination of flat, saw tooth and pitched roofs. The concept behind the design of the building is that each apartment has its own independent roof profile, creating different typologies and greater visual interest in the perspective views to the building.
The button factory series#
The profile of this additional floor, creates a series of connected mono-pitched roofs and an arresting sense of light and volume within, giving each flat a unique architectural feel. The top floor is now characterised by an asymmetrical roof profile in black corrugated metal, offering an engaging contrast to the earthier tones of the factory brickwork below.
The button factory windows#
The grand industrial proportions of the original factory building have been sensitively preserved the ground, first and second floors have been transformed into artists’ studios with large factory windows characterising the street-facing facade, between elegant sections of London stock brick and red-painted linear columns. The spaces exceed the sum of their features capitalising on their elevated position to offer the best of loft-style living. There are elegant kitchens with Spruce Pine cabinetry, built-in wardrobes in all bedrooms, minimal black linear lighting and large sections of glazing. The interior aesthetic is defined by sections of cross-laminated timber across the walls and ceilings, and polished concrete underfoot. The plan stretches out, opening onto a private terrace via sliding glazed doors. It has a large kitchen, living and dining room with skylight above. It is the largest of the three, extending to just shy of 800 sq ft, and is positioned at the front of the building. Of the three apartments originally for sale, only one two-bedroom apartment remains. The grand Victorian structure has been renovated over the past year by Fentiman Design and Orsinibrewin Architects, who between them have introduced a material palette of cross-laminated timber, black corrugated steel and polished concrete. The Button Factory is a collection of three contemporary loft apartments, built on the top floor of a former button factory in Hackney.
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