Wellesley Avenue is characterized by predominantly three storey, Belfast brick terraces. The proposal was to sensitively infill a ‘missing’ piece of the Victorian streetscape.

A new three storey building with an inhabited mansard roof provided five new apartments with a communal roof terrace as well as a resident bike workshop on the ground floor. Arched fenestration and entrances on the ground floor reference the arched thresholds of the surrounding dwellings. The street’s rhythmic, crafted frontages are continued via a carefully composed and detailed brick façade, with diamond pattern railings that reference the leaded windows of the nearby Queens University Lanyon Building.