Brentford Lock West
- Location: Hounslow, London
- Client: Waterside Places
- Date: 2013 - 2018
- Value: £50m
- Awards: RIBA National Award –2019 RIBA London Regional Award –2019 RIBA London Regional Award –2018 New London Architecture Award –Shortlist 2019 Inside Housing Development Award –2018 The Sunday Times British Homes Award 2018 –Apartment Development of the Year The Sunday Times British Homes Award 2018 –Development of the Year The Sunday Times British Homes Award 2018 –Homebuilder of the Year In-house Customer Satisfaction Gold Award –2018 RIBA Neave Brown Award –Shortlist 2019 AJ Architecture Awards –Shortlist 2019 Brick Award –Finalist 2018 Housing Design Award –Finalist 2015
We have designed new housing as part of a large regeneration project on a brownfield site on the Grand Union Canal in west London. The scheme comprises 157 homes over 2 plots, Block E and Block F (Keelson Gardens), that take inspiration from their context and the warehouses that previously occupied the site.


Six pavilion buildings have distinct saw-tooth roofs that make reference to the neighbouring wharf architecture. The townhouses with their garden walls and porches reference the nearby conservation area.


The pavilion type gives rise to a very rational layout, achieving 82% net to gross. Cores serves 4 dual aspect flats per floor, in a quadrant arrangement. Town houses and inhabited bridges link the pavilions, and enclose a resident courtyard garden.

We have taken a simple, yet robust attitude towards detailing, using a limited palette of materials – principally facing brickwork together with pre-cast concrete, painted metalwork, natural stained timber, and render, to modulate the building facades and provide character.



Drone footage update February 2018
Building works for Phase 2 of Brentford Lock West are well underway in this drone footage.
Phase 2 has now completed as of Winter 2018.
Footage courtesy of McAleer & Rushe.
Contractor McAleer & Rushe
Structural Engineer Expedition
Environmental / M&E Engineer Eight Associates / Thornton Reynolds
Quantity Surveyor Tower8
Landscape Architect Camlins
Planning Consultant Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design