38-44 Rye Lane Peckham, New Building in South London, Reality Holdings
38-44 Rye Lane, Peckham Building
Development in Southwark, London, England, UK – design by Keith Williams Architects
8 Jan 2018
38-44 Rye Lane, Peckham Building
Design: Keith Williams Architects
Location: 38-44 Rye Lane, Peckham Building, South London
38-44 Rye Lane in Peckham for Reality Holdings
Keith Williams Architects? residential-led project at 38-44 Rye Lane, for developer Reality Holdings, has been unanimously approved by Southwark Council.

The project will deliver 716 m2 of retail floor space and 27 residential units above, replacing a dilapidated 3 storey 1960s converted office building on an important corner site in the heart of Peckham?s vibrant Rye Lane, one of the most aesthetically varied, and culturally mixed streets in London. Set within the Rye Lane Conservation Area, the new building transitions in scale from the two storey C19th housing on Highshore Road, to a height of six storeys as the building faces onto Rye Lane itself; a scale similar to some of the granderformer department stores and bank buildings, some of which still punctuate the street scene.

The double height columnar treatment to the main façade gives a vertical more elegant emphasis to the composition, and whilst the main Rye Lane façade is continuous to give a civic scale to the main street, the same elevational rhythm is further subdivided before dropping in scale to respond to finer architectural grain of H...