London: eclectic mix and domestic intimacy in Druid Grove

 East Dulwich, London, UK

Architects: CAN

Garden Design: Tilly Dallas Garden Design

Photographer © Felix Speller

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 A typical London house is transformed into something close to a living work of art.

The architects have extended and refurbished a three-bedroom home in East Dulwich, London for a visual artist, balancing nature-heavy hyperrealism with domestic intimacy.

Druid Grove mixes subtle reconfiguration alongside daring architectural gestures. Standing sentinel to the ground floor extension in the garden is a single standing stone or ‘menhir’, a physical and symbolic anchor that provides privacy from neighbouring views.

Named Druid Grove for its mystical and grounding qualities, the house weaves together an eclectic mix  of natural and monumental elements, both fabricated and real, into material-rich spaces that feel part stage set, part sanctuary. 

The result is a home that sits between the everyday and the extraordinary - a quiet monument where domestic life unfolds against a backdrop of creativity. 

Building Area: 170 m2