Has London ever seen a more unusual coming together of modern property development and intensely imagined, highly crafted architecture than in the four artfully interlocked houses at Warmer Yard, Notting Hill? This profoundly idiosyncratic three-dimensional riddle of asymmetries and references may yet be prescient concerning the future densification of even fashionable fillets of the city. The sections and plans of Peter Salter's scheme jump cut from organic, to orthogonal, to elliptically geometric, to faux-medieval. Charles Holland caught their abstruse quality nicely in a 2012 blog: 'I have genuinely no idea what this building will look like. Looking at the plans gives little clue. Salter's drawings were always both explicitly literal and almost completely opaque. Everything is rendered with utter deadpan realism, apart from what it might look like.' And, even built, one can't truly know the architecture.
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