# Unity Place. Bronze-anodised aluminium cassettes and flashings, supplied. South Kilburn, London NW6. > Bronze-anodised aluminium cassettes, shrouds, flashings and copings procured and supplied for Telford Homes at Unity Place, South Kilburn, 2019-20. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/ The team behind Dmitro Development procured, coordinated and supplied this aluminium package for main contractor Telford Homes on Unity Place, 235 council homes in South Kilburn. ![Planted courtyard between buff-brick blocks with aluminium-faced balconies and bronze aluminium panels at Unity Place, South Kilburn](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-courtyard-completion-jpeg-fallback.jpg) 01 · Balconies and buff brick facing across a courtyard. Social housing A planted residents’ courtyard at Unity Place, South Kilburn, between buff-brick blocks with projecting balconies. The team behind Dmitro Development procured, coordinated and supplied bronze-anodised aluminium cassettes, flashings and copings to main contractor Telford Homes for Blocks 4 and 5 of the scheme between October 2019 and July 2020. ## At a glance - **Package**: Bronze-anodised aluminium cassettes, flashings and copings - **Role**: Procurement, coordination and supply - **Main contractor**: Telford Homes - **Client**: London Borough of Brent - **Supplied**: October 2019 to July 2020 - **Location**: South Kilburn · London NW6 Telford Homes built Unity Place for Brent Council under a design-and-build contract between 2018 and 2021, handing over the first homes in November 2020 and the rest from July 2021. Brent Council acquired every home, and all are let at social rent, with priority for existing South Kilburn tenants. [Part of: Facade packages](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## The aluminium package - 3 mm bronze-anodised cassettes: rectangular, trapezoidal and perforated - Facade shrouds and welded cassette elements - 2 mm flashings and cills, including the terracotta junctions and gutters - Powder-coated copings, corner copings and butt straps ![Render of a five-storey buff-brick residential block with a pale ceramic-clad upper storey, balconies and street trees](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-residential-elevation-render-fallback.jpg) 02 · A render of one mansion-block elevation. A design render of one Unity Place mansion-block elevation: buff brick with recessed balconies below a pale ceramic-clad upper storey. ## 03 · Stacked bays rising the full height of a street elevation. ![A brick elevation with stacked projecting balcony bays framed in bronze-toned metal, parked cars in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-projecting-balconies-facade-fallback.jpg) Stacked projecting balcony bays on a completed Unity Place block, framed in bronze-toned metal against buff brick and pale ceramic cladding. ## 04 · A full-height bronze-toned pier beside a courtyard gateway. ![A tall bronze-toned metal-clad bay beside a brick block, with people walking past towards a planted courtyard](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-planted-courtyard-path-fallback.jpg) A tall bronze-toned metal-clad bay on a Unity Place block, beside the paved way into one of the planted courtyards. Supply chain ## Drawn by the team, made by Vytrolma, delivered in stages. UAB Vytrolma, the specialist fabricator in the team’s supply chain, made every component from the team’s drawings and 3D models: AW5005 aluminium with a 25-micron B1 bronze anodised face, and powder-coated copings and butt straps in finishes including RAL 1015 and RAL 1035. Deliveries ran in stages from October 2019 to July 2020, alongside Telford’s work on Blocks 4 and 5. The terracotta, the SFS and the facade installation were other trades’ work. - 1,130 m²: Rectangular cassettes, 3 mm - 153 m²: Trapezoidal cassettes, 3 mm - 101 m²: Perforated cassettes, 3 mm - 543 m²: Flashings, 2 mm ## Bronze-toned bays and inclined tops Stacked bays framed in bronze-toned metal, and upper storeys that lean back into cream crackle-glazed ceramic, give the blocks their skyline. ![Two completed Unity Place blocks on a sunny street corner, one with stacked projecting bays and inclined upper storeys, a cyclist passing in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-wide-street-elevation-rma-fallback.jpg) 05 · Stacked bays stepping up to a ceramic top, on a street corner. Two of the completed Unity Place blocks from the street: a long block with an inclined upper storey, and a corner block whose projecting bays step up to a ceramic-clad top. ![A corner block with projecting balcony bays whose upper storeys lean back into pale ceramic cladding](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-mansion-block-corner-view-fallback.jpg) 06 · A corner where the bays lean back as they rise. A Unity Place corner block: stacked balcony bays below upper storeys that lean back in pale ceramic cladding. ![A row of brick blocks with inclined, ceramic-clad upper storeys along a wide road, a corner block in the foreground](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-residential-masterplan-street-view-fallback.jpg) 07 · Inclined upper storeys along a wide road. Unity Place’s blocks along a wide road, their upper storeys inclined or set back behind pale ceramic cladding. ![The front of a brick mansion block whose upper floors step back into a ceramic-clad mansard, a tree in the foreground](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-mansion-block-front-elevation-fallback.jpg) 08 · A mansion block stepping back into a mansard. The street front of a Unity Place mansion block, its upper floors stepping back into a ceramic-clad mansard. ![A symmetrical brick mansion block with recessed balconies and pale ceramic cladding sloping at each end, a red car in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-mansion-block-symmetrical-elevation-fallback.jpg) 09 · Ceramic cladding sloping back at both ends of a mansion block. A symmetrical Unity Place mansion block, with recessed balconies in buff brick and pale ceramic cladding sloping back at each end of the top storeys. ![A brick corner block with inclined upper floors beside a small square, St Augustine’s church spire behind](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-church-square-view-fallback.jpg) 10 · A corner block’s inclined top, above a small square. A Unity Place corner block beside the square in front of St Augustine’s Kilburn, its inclined upper floors stepping back from the street. ## 11 · Opening the view to St Augustine’s. Grade I listed, and back in view. ![Evening sun on a terrace of brick blocks with projecting bays, leading to the spire of St Augustine’s Kilburn](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-st-augustines-church-sunset-fallback.jpg) Unity Place in evening sun, its terrace of projecting bays leading to St Augustine’s Kilburn. The new layout reinstated the east-west route and view towards the Grade I listed church. ## Scheme context: streets and blocks The blocks rebuild the area's nineteenth-century street pattern, with Cambridge Road joined back to Kilburn Park Road. Buff brick in lime mortar, rusticated plinths and white precast frames set their order. ![A buff-brick block with recessed balconies on Cambridge Road, the spire of St Augustine’s Kilburn rising behind a neighbouring block](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-cambridge-road-residential-facade-fallback.jpg) 12 · A Cambridge Road block with recessed balconies on every floor. A completed Unity Place block on Cambridge Road, with the spire of St Augustine’s Kilburn visible beyond the street. ![A street corner on Cambridge Road with brick residential blocks behind railings and trees, a stucco terrace on the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-cambridge-road-street-corner-fallback.jpg) 13 · A Cambridge Road corner, the blocks set behind railings and trees. A street corner on Cambridge Road, with Unity Place’s brick blocks set behind railings and street trees opposite the neighbouring stucco terrace. ![A long six-storey brick block on a quiet street, its top floor set behind a white precast frame, under a clear blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-six-storey-residential-block-fallback.jpg) 14 · A six-storey block whose top floor sits behind a white frame. A six-storey Unity Place block in buff brick, its top floor set behind a white precast frame. ![A long brick street elevation with a regular grid of recessed balconies and a white precast frame on the top storey](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-residential-block-street-elevation-fallback.jpg) 15 · A long street front of repeated recessed balconies. A full street elevation of one of the Unity Place mansion blocks: a regular grid of brick piers and recessed balconies, with the top storey behind a white precast frame. ![A street between two brick blocks leading to St Augustine’s Kilburn, a Grade I listed church with a tall spire](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-cambridge-road-view-st-augustines-church-fallback.jpg) 16 · Cambridge Road running between two new blocks. Cambridge Road between two Unity Place blocks, looking towards St Augustine’s Kilburn. The scheme restored the historic street pattern and reconnected Cambridge Road with Kilburn Park Road. ![A brick terrace with projecting metal-framed bays leading towards the spire of St Augustine’s Kilburn](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-mansion-terrace-church-view-fallback.jpg) 17 · A terrace of projecting bays receding down the street. A Unity Place terrace of projecting bays running towards St Augustine’s Kilburn, whose spire rises above the new blocks. ![A buff-brick elevation whose piers rise to a white precast colonnade at the top floor](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-precast-concrete-upper-facade-fallback.jpg) 18 · Brick piers giving way to a white precast colonnade. The upper floors of a Unity Place block, where the buff-brick piers give way to a white precast colonnade at roof level. ![Close view of recessed balconies with slender metal railings between brick piers and white precast columns](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-recessed-balconies-and-brick-facade-fallback.jpg) 19 · Balconies set back behind slim precast columns. Recessed balconies on a Unity Place block, with slender metal railings set between buff-brick piers and white precast columns. ![The upper floors of a brick block with white precast columns and recessed balconies, a taller block with balconies beside it](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-precast-facade-and-balconies-detail-fallback.jpg) 20 · Precast columns on the upper floors, a taller block beside. The upper floors of a Unity Place block, where white precast columns frame recessed balconies, with a taller balconied block beside it. ![A courtyard route beside a block with deep balconies and pale-green glazed brick walls, people walking along the path](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-mansion-terrace-street-corner-fallback.jpg) 21 · Deep balconies lined in pale-green glazed brick. A Unity Place block with deep balconies lined in pale-green glazed brick, beside a landscaped route through the courtyards. ## 22 · A brick corner block under a white rooftop frame. ![A completed buff-brick corner block at Unity Place with recessed balconies between brick piers, under a blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-brick-corner-block-rma-fallback.jpg) A completed Unity Place corner block in buff brick, its balconies set between brick piers. Unity Place replaced the 18-storey, 169-home Gloucester House tower and the 40 homes of Durham Court with mansion blocks and villas of four to eight storeys. ## Scheme context: courtyards Each group of blocks wraps a planted courtyard with doorstep play, growing beds and sensory planting. Most homes are dual aspect, on shallow floorplates that bring in daylight and cross-ventilation. ![Looking down on a communal garden with patterned paving, planting beds, young trees and two people on a bench](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-landscaped-communal-garden-fallback.jpg) 23 · Patterned paving, benches and young trees, from an upper floor. A communal garden at Unity Place seen from above, with patterned paving, raised planting, young trees and benches. ![A private residential courtyard framed by a canopy, with lawn and hedges in front of a six-storey block with balconies](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-private-residential-courtyard-fallback.jpg) 24 · A lawn and clipped hedges, seen from under an entrance canopy. One of Unity Place’s private residential courtyards, seen from beneath a block entrance, with a lawn and clipped hedges in front of the balconied elevations. ![A wide courtyard with lawn, hedges and a young tree, surrounded by brick blocks with projecting balconies](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-landscaped-courtyard-wide-view-fallback.jpg) 25 · A young tree at the centre of a courtyard lawn. A landscaped residents’ courtyard at Unity Place, its lawn and hedging enclosed by brick blocks with projecting balconies. ![A paved passage between two brick blocks with projecting balconies on both sides and planting at the entrance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-courtyard-balconies-and-planting-fallback.jpg) 26 · A wet paved passage between two balconied blocks. A paved passage into a Unity Place courtyard, between two brick blocks with projecting balconies. ![Aerial view of a communal courtyard with lawns, angular concrete planters with trees, benches and steel play arches](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-communal-garden-aerial-view-fallback.jpg) 27 · Hexagonal concrete planters, from above. A Unity Place courtyard from above: lawns, angular concrete planters with trees, benches, and steel arches for doorstep play. ![A communal courtyard with lawns and paths seen from beneath an entrance archway between brick blocks](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-communal-courtyard-archway-view-fallback.jpg) 28 · A courtyard glimpsed through an entrance archway. A communal courtyard at Unity Place seen from beneath an entrance archway, its paths and lawns running between the blocks. ![A straight paved path between two fenced play areas, leading to brick blocks with balconies](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-courtyard-pedestrian-route-fallback.jpg) 29 · A straight path between two fenced play areas. A pedestrian route through Unity Place, running between fenced play areas towards the brick blocks. ![A lawn in a residents’ courtyard with a steel play tunnel, loungers and a dog, a brick block behind](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-communal-lawn-and-play-tunnel-fallback.jpg) 30 · A steel play tunnel on the residents’ lawn. A residents’ lawn at Unity Place with a steel play tunnel and loungers, part of the doorstep play, growing areas and sensory planting built into the courtyards. ![A curving path between tall brick blocks, one with projecting metal-framed bays, a courtyard garden beyond](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-window-detail-courtyard-path-fallback.jpg) 31 · A curving path under a row of metal-framed bays. A path between Unity Place blocks, one lined with projecting metal-framed bays, leading into a planted courtyard. ![A curving courtyard path between a brick block and a block lined in pale-green glazed brick, the church spire in the distance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-green-brick-courtyard-walkway-fallback.jpg) 32 · A curving courtyard walkway between two blocks. A courtyard walkway at Unity Place between a buff-brick block and balconies lined in pale-green glazed brick, with the spire of St Augustine’s beyond. Recognition ## Honoured by the RIBA, the Civic Trust and the British Homes Awards. The honours below went to the scheme and its architects. Unity Place was also shortlisted for the Housing Design Awards, NLA Awards, AJ Architecture Awards, Building Awards, World Architecture Festival and The Pineapples. - RIBA London Award: 2024 - RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing: Shortlisted 2024 - British Homes Awards, Affordable Housing: Winner 2024 - Civic Trust Awards, Highly Commended: 2023 and 2024 - Brent Design Awards, Best Residential Scheme: 2023 ## The scheme on paper Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios masterplanned the 1.3-hectare site with Alison Brooks Architects and Gort Scott, each designing its own blocks, with RM_A as delivery architect. Parking went into a 92-space basement so the streets and courtyards could be rebuilt above it. ![Coloured masterplan of the South Kilburn regeneration area, a triangular district between two Underground lines, with parks and new blocks marked](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-south-kilburn-regeneration-location-masterplan-fallback.jpg) 33 · The South Kilburn regeneration area masterplan. The masterplan for the South Kilburn regeneration programme, the council-led renewal of the estate that Unity Place belongs to. Earlier council records call the site Phase 2b; Brent now lists it as Phase 3a. ![Black-and-white location plan of the streets around Unity Place, with the new blocks filled in black and the site boundary in red](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-site-location-plan-fallback.jpg) 34 · The location plan, the new blocks in black at the centre. The site location plan for Unity Place, showing the new blocks in black within the surrounding streets of South Kilburn, on the boundary between the London Boroughs of Brent and Westminster. ![Colour site plan of Unity Place showing the building footprints, planted courtyards, a public square and street trees](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-site-plan-fallback.jpg) 35 · The landscape plan: courtyards, public square and planting. The landscape site plan for Unity Place, with the planted private courtyards inside each block group and the public square, garden and play space between them. The planning permission required five replacement trees for every tree removed. ![Line drawing of the Unity Place site plan showing ground-floor flat layouts, courtyards and the surrounding roads](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-detailed-site-plan-fallback.jpg) 36 · The detailed site plan, with the ground floor of every block. The detailed site plan for Unity Place, showing the ground-floor layouts of every block, the courtyards between them and the surrounding streets, including Cambridge Road, Kilburn Park Road and Carlton Vale. ![A pale wooden massing model of the new blocks and surrounding streets, with the church modelled at the centre](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-masterplan-model-fallback.jpg) 37 · The timber massing model of the blocks and surrounding streets. A timber massing model of the Unity Place blocks within the surrounding streets, with St Augustine’s Kilburn modelled among them. ![Hand-drawn axonometric sketch of the new blocks, shaded in brick tones around green courtyards, with the church spire in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-axonometric-sketch-fallback.jpg) 38 · An axonometric sketch of the blocks around their courtyards. An axonometric sketch of Unity Place, the new blocks shaded around their planted courtyards within the surrounding streets, with St Augustine’s spire in the foreground. ![Colour axonometric diagram of the new blocks labelled by plot and height, from four to eight storeys, with routes marked in red](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-residential-masterplan-axonometric-fallback.jpg) 39 · An axonometric of the blocks and their heights in storeys. An axonometric diagram of the Unity Place blocks, each coloured by plot and labelled with its height, from four to eight storeys. ![Line drawing of three full-height wall sections and a main facade elevation for two residential blocks](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-florican-curlew-elevation-detail-fallback.jpg) 40 · Sections and main elevation of Florican and Curlew Houses. Full-height sections and the main facade elevation of Florican and Curlew Houses, two of the Unity Place blocks. ## Unity Place, complete in 2021. Cambridge Road and Kilburn Park Road, London NW6 - **Landscape architect**: Grant Associates - **Engineer**: Buro Happold - **Cladding consultant**: Montresor Partnership - **Planning consent**: Brent, September 2014 - **Photography**: Paul Riddle ## Related projects - [BP Showcase Pavilion. Mirrored cladding. 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