Located at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Forest Hill neighborhood of southeast London, the Imperial Club is a new-build complex consisting of three houses and five apartments from Frame, a design-led property firm founded by architects Nick Mansour and Hugo Braddick.
According to Mansour, the project “was inspired by the Maison de Verre, an early-20th-century mews house wedged into a small infill site in the center of Paris. The original Imperial Club building on the site had lovely, large interior spaces and great ceiling heights but very little natural light. We felt it essential to remedy this last point but, as is so often the case with mews houses, we needed to do so in such a way that maintained privacy to the surrounding streets and houses. “To achieve this we used various devices. First, we cut the building back from the site perimeter at various levels to create a series of small private courtyard gardens onto which we were able to open up the interior spaces with generous full-height glazing.” Where this wasn’t possible, we introduced obscured glazing, (such as the reeded glass blocks), or otherwise coupled our high ceilings with large, high-level clerestory windows and rooflights to flood the interior spaces with daylight.”
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Above: The simple facade is clad in glazed white brick with black Crittall windows.

Above: The kitchens are made of quarter-sawn Douglas...