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Visage and Swiss Cottage Cultural Centre

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The Visage block (left) and Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre

Site plan

The 'street in the sky' on the roof of the leisure centre

Leisure centre: competition swimming pool, ground floor restaurant and gyms above

The street on the roof of the leisure centre

Living room in apartment

The natural finish aluminium roof

Rear of brick terrace on Winchester Road, which fixes the height of the affordable housing end of the Visage block (right)

The north elevation of the leisure centre

The Leisure Centre’s glazed north elevation

Looking north on Winchester Mews

Looking south towards Adelaide Road

The Ujima Housing Association units with the community centre below at plinth level have similar detailing to the private housing in the rest of the Visage block

The basement car park provides separate areas for the operational needs of the leisure centre, the doctors’ surgery and the community centre as well as residents

The scheme’s water feature and leisure centre, with the Visage block stepping up to seventeen storeys from the five storey end accommodating the Ujima units

Entrance to the underground car park and service road from Winchester Road. Ujima apartments extend from above this entrance to the right

Ground level Visage apartments look onto Winchester Road; deep reveals to the columns have been used in an attempt to give them privacy

On Winchester Road the Visage block picks up the height of existing terraces and repeats the rhythm of the street; the five storey tower acts as a landmark

Visage luxury apartment interior

Two-bed luxury apartment layout

The balcony of this Visage apartment has a view towards Hampstead Hill in the background

Seen from the south, the Visage building is a striking landmark

The Visage block and the leisure centre’s glazed climbing wall seen from Adelaide Road

The Visage building with the Grade II listed library (left) which determined the height of the leisure centre

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