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At first glance, the row of tall brick arches peeking out from a grassy slope inside London’s Dartmouth Park Conservation Area looks like a Victorian-era viaduct. But get closer, and the building reveals itself to be six contemporary rowhomes, designed to nod to the city’s railroad heyday and the neoclassical architecture of the 18th and 19th century.
The Arches, designed by the UK-based firm DHaus Company, sits in an architectural preservation zone in the city’s Camden borough. And as Richard Conway reports in the latest entry in our Look at That Building series, the building’s design is the result of strict preservation standards that challenged architects to come up with something bold and modern, but that also fit into the neighborhood’s historic fabric. Today on CityLab: New Rowhouses in London That Offer a Bridge to the 19th Century