OMA with Allies and Morrison Holland Green

摘要

OMA's Reinier de Graaf has ambitions to build social housing; he told me so at this year's Venice Biennale. But this, the practice's first residential project in the UK, is not it. This development of three blocks of housing by OMA and Allies and Morrison is luxury, though with ambitions beyond just housing London's rich. Speaking about the capital's current housing crisis, de Graaf says: 'The trend seems irreversible and inescapable. Architects are now as much part of it as property developers. Even if mentioning these two categories in a single sentence might offend most architects, the statement is no less true.