Almost 9 million people call London home. This collection presents different iterations of home within London, from the residences of great artists to post-war housing estates to Tudor almshouses to projects that show how communities are founding new homes within the city, to temporary shelters for those in need.
Many homes are situated within historic buildings – some of which were not designed as housing but have nevertheless proved resilient and adaptable spaces. These walls could tell tales of multiple generations, myriad occupants and uses over time. Now new generations are working to retrofit historic buildings to meet the challenges of today. Across England up to 670,000 characterful new homes could come from sensitively repurposing empty or underused historic buildings and due to embodied carbon, the greenest home is the one that already exists.
As you journey through London’s homes, we hope you’ll find somewhere to stop and stay a while, and marvel at the many people and communities that occupy historic buildings and continue to reimagine these as homes for the future.
