Collection · Halloran Boyd · 2017
North Light Studio
Drawn for a painter, and never altered since.
The house
Boyd drew this around one room: a nine-metre studio lit entirely from the north, with not a single opening on the south wall. The painter it was built for worked here for twenty-two years and changed nothing.
The rest of the house is deliberately modest, and reads as service to the studio rather than as accommodation with a studio attached.
Held privately. Details on application.
What makes it
- Nine-metre studio, north-lit only
- No openings whatsoever on the south wall
- In original condition throughout
- One owner from completion until 2024
Photographs
Specification
What isin it
Interior
- Nine-metre studio with sink and store
- Board-formed concrete walls
- Concrete floor with underfloor heating
- Two modest bedrooms
Exterior
- Enclosed stone yard
- Kiln house
- Terraced approach
- Parking for two
Services
- Air-source heat pump
- Three-phase supply to the studio
- Solar thermal
- Private drainage
Where it is
Quarry Bay
A steep west-facing shoulder above the city, and the best skyline view anyone sells.
