Ilona Rose House

Client:
Soho Estates
Location:
City of Westminster
Ilona Rose House is a high-quality office building within the hip streets of Soho in the City of Westminster. The building design, with a theme based around the Rose flower, by MATT Architecture is situated between Greek Street and Charing Cross Road.
The Design
Surrounding the building are simple, high quality public walkways completed in natural stone, and a semi-private internal courtyard overlooking a four-storey deep feature light well with passageway to Greek Street. At ground floor retail, restaurants and cafes can spill out onto the pavement.
A series of small ‘Linear’ and larger ‘Main’ landscaped roof terraces were designed to marry in with the horizontal stepped planes of the building. The landscape is intended to reinforce the identity of the building, as well as to create bespoke usable roof terraces for the building occupiers.
The planting strategy on the Linear Terraces includes evergreen structural hedges, herbaceous planting in blue and white, along with pleached screening trees and climbing white roses within rectilinear shaped planters.
By contrast the Main Terraces have mounded raised plant beds in sinuous shapes of varying height, mimicking the structure of the namesake rose flower, whose emblem is also used in the building façade.
Design team:
Architect: MATT Architecture
Photography: Image 1: Chris Snook for Paola Leon Design, courtesy of Soho Estates
Appointment:
2017
Completion:
2022
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