Bronze
- Client: Workspace w/t Strawberry Star Developments
- Contacts: Guy Harris
The transformation of Hardwick’s Quarter has been completed with the unveiling of Bronze, an elegant residential-led development which forms the final chapter of the regeneration of this historic area to the southside of Wandsworth Town Centre, which cumulatively has delivered significant levels of new housing and workspace, new public realm and improved connectivity.
Bronze provides 77 residential units in a new building of up to twenty storeys, together with 2,245m2 of flexible business space within a connected four storey building, and a café / restaurant space, located at the ground floor of the residential building.

Wandsworth has a rich history of embracing its industrial past. Buildings that characterise its urban fabric have developed over time, many having a solidity in terms of the depth of modelling. The location of the brewery at the centre of the town is typical of this mix of solidity, depth and industrial architecture. This unique language has been the driver behind the architectural language for Bronze.
Conceived as a simple composition of three clean metal rectangles, which have been extruded to form ‘blocks’, each block has an elegant proportion, with the three elements being arranged together in sizes that are a complimentary and having an orientation to maximise the views of King George’s Park. This trio of elongated rectangles is complimented by the design of the Commercial building, which is conceived as a singular rectangle which has been laid on it’s side to emphasize the horizontal nature of the use of this building, finalising the composition of the whole proposal. Formed of bronze ‘wraps’ which appear solid, smooth and sleek, the ‘wraps’ enclose glazed facades that are composed of simple modular elements.
The site has a very prominent location which acts as the interface between King George’s Park, Wandsworth Town Centre and Hardwicks Quarter, an area of Wandsworth which had been identified by the Council a recognised location where a well-designed ‘marker’ building might be acceptable. At twenty storeys the proposed building forms the tallest element of Hardwick’s Quarter, however, the building’s slim elements and dynamic façade design providing an elegant form. Height is key to the building’s slenderness and elegance, with the considered massing ensures that the building appears slender in longer range views, from both King George’s Park to the south and from Wandsworth Town Centre Conservation Area to the north.


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The landscape design strategy continues the pedestrian friendly environment established by the Wandsworth Business Village and Buckhold Road developments, and further enhances the character of this new urban quarter, providing new high-quality landscaped public realm, helping to foster a sense of place and improving permeability within the site and beyond, linking to King George’s Park and the town centre.




