Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Ice Wharf / King's Cross

Architect: Tchaik Chassay, 1998. Apartments overlooking Regent's Canal and Battle Bridge Basin, steel framed with concrete floors sitting on deep bored piles. London Borough of Camden.

The development's name derives from a nearby Victorian ice well. A Mr Carlo Gatti had the huge well constructed in 1857 to store tons of ice imported from Norway and further wells were subsequently built around London. The ice enabled ice-cream to be brought to Londoners for the first time. You can still view the original ice well at the London Canal Museum which is just south of these apartments.
 (CC BY-SA credit: Images George Rex)