Nord Pavilion home extension, Greater London house renovation project, English real estate architecture photos

Nord Pavilion Home Extension in Greater London

21 September 2025

Architecture: WILLIAM TOZER Associates

Location: Greater London, England, UK

photo © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

Photos: Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

Nord Pavilion, Greater London, UK

Dominated by crisp, flat natural top light, and framing views of tree trunks, the Nord Pavilion extension is a modest tribute to the Nordic Pavilion by Sverre Fehn, designed between 1958 and 1962 to provide Nordic light in Venice for the Biennale.

photos © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

The courtyard garden between the kitchen extension and the outbuilding is conceived of as an exterior room. The two new buildings are clad in different materials, but are visually tied together by their simple yet sculptural rectilinear forms.

photos © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

The interior is similarly composed of sculptural forms, but at a smaller scale—the kitchen units and island, and a blade wall to the staircase—all of which loosely divide the open-plan space into different functions. The open-riser staircase references the Stack works of Donald Judd, while the plaster form of the closed-riser staircase in the kitchen ceiling is a nod to the work of the early modernist architect Adolf Loos.

drawing © WILLIAM TOZER Associates

From the garden, one looks through a stand of birch trees into the top-lit interior of the new extension. Flat light from the rooflight mixes with light dappled through the canopies of the adjacent birch trees.

photo © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

A mirrored splashback doubles the sense of space in the kitchen, which is spatially delineated by sculptural composition of rectilinear timber cabinets. The staircase to the ground floor appears as an abstracted form in the ceiling of the lower-ground floor, referencing the appearance of this feature in the early twentieth-century houses of Adolf Loos.

photos © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

The Victorian features and character of the original Thomas Cubitt building are preserved through much of the interior of the house, with subtle modernisation of glazing, lighting, storage, and paint finishes.

photo © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

Some of the paint colours reference the colour coding of plasterboard, usually hidden when the construction process is.

photo © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski

The outbuilding can be seen from the extension, through the room-like spaces of the garden. The rare ‘crinkle-crinkle’ wall to the boundaries is an original late-Georgian feature. The glazed elevations of the extension and outbuilding reflect one another through the trees.

photo © Lukasz Wielkoszynkski