Card trick

摘要

The phrase 'The camera cannot lie' is now almost universally accepted as a falsism, and it seems apt that Featherstone Young's Waddington Studios, commissioned by a photographer and completed in October, is an essay in architectural smoke and mirrors. For starters, it's not just a photographic studio. Behind a Corten facade which might appear to spell authenticity lies layer upon layer of photographic and artist's studio space, office accommodation, flats, garaging and storage, plus a courtyard house - quite a concoction for its essentially residential setting in Church Walk, a mews in Newington Green, the neighbourhood between Dalston, Highbury and Stoke Newington. The owners, who occupy the courtyard house and artist's studio, are among several end-users and let out the other studios and the flats.