Quay House
Adaptive reuse · Riverside warehouseA Victorian grain store opened back to the water. New concrete floors are set inside the brick shell, leaving the old structure legible.
Hypothetical brief
A riverside practice wants a site that lets the buildings speak — no effects, no noise, nothing that dates.
Design direction
A strict twelve-column grid, a single light sans in two sizes, and materials as the only colour. Negative space does the work that animation does elsewhere.
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- Category
- Architecture / Editorial
- Scope
- Project index, project pages, material library
- Imagery
- Composed planes stand in for photography
- Status
- Concept — not a client project
Interface 01 — Projects
Selected interaction — Material library
Materials are the only colour on the site. Choose one to see where it’s used.
Board-marked concrete — used in Quay House, Wharf Studios.
Responsive — One grid, three widths
Twelve columns become six, then two. The proportions hold.
NORTHBANKProjects · Practice · ContactQuay House, a warehouse returned to the river.
1440 · 12 columnsNORTHBANKMenuQuay House, a warehouse returned to the river.
834 · 6 columnsNORTHBANKMenuQuay House, a warehouse returned to the river.
390 · 2 columnsOne weight, two sizesHierarchy comes from space and position rather than bold type.
Transitions like doorsChanging project slides planes into place — slow and architectural, never decorative.
Image-first deliveryBuilt for large photography: responsive sources, art-directed crops per breakpoint, lazy loading.
Imagery planCommissioned architectural photography would replace the composed planes shown here.