Luxury Apartments, Princess Victoria Street

Clifton, Bristol

Client: Askon
Contractor: QCF Interiors
Completion: to be confirmed

This scheme is for a series of contemporary two-bedroom and duplex apartments set within an exisiting 1960s office block, albeit with a retained listed facade.

The project explored a series of options to maximise on sale prices and

the nett to gross ratio, whilst minimising build costs by working with and

around the inevitably constraints imposed by an existing building. The

proposal was however to create good sized, quality apartments in order

to place the development in a certain market position.

...the proposal was to create good sized, quality apartments in order to place the development in a certain market position.

The 90% efficiency of sellable space to circulation was achieved via a central core with lift and stairs which typically served all 3 floors. However, in the options where we explored the duplex apartments, access

to these was via the first floor (and with private internal staircases to each

duplex), thus negating the need for the core to extend to the top floor. In

this scenario, the space previously used by the core on the top floor allowed

the apartments to be even larger.

The apartments were all very contemporary in their interior design, with

mezzanine floors, double height spaces, and contemporary materials and

fittings, again, to appeal to a certain section of the market.