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Completed in 2016, the project was more than thirteen years in the making. The client-developer was Crispin Kelly who had been one of Salter’s architectural students at the Architectural Association, London. \r\n\r\nAlthough each house is different, there are many common features, most notably the black steel bathrooms and, at the top of each house, the ‘yurt’ rooms with distinctive multi-faceted surfaces. The houses are highly bespoke, the walls of in situ concrete finishes, and with fine joinery and metalwork throughout.\r\n\r\nRowan Moore, architectural critic for The Observer (20 November 2016), has cited Walmer Yard as the most important British designed houses of recent decades:\r\n… it is the latest addition to the tiny band of singular and usually expensive houses that make of domestic space an alternative, personal universe and that hold a place in architectural history beyond their physical size. You could compare it to the Maison de Verre in Paris of 1932, an exquisite alliance of technology and craftsmanship designed by Pierre Chareau, or to the encrusted gothic interiors of the Tower House, by the Victorian architect William Burges, a mile from Walmer Yard in Holland Park. Britain has not seen houses like this – so intense in their ideas, details and making – for decades.\r\n\r\nThe project was designed by Peter Salter using the traditional method of hand-drawn architectural drawings; these often had to be repurposed to computer renderings by other architects in the office for building purposes. \r\n\r\nSalter is a consummate draughtsman; in the 1970s he worked with eminent architects Alison and Peter Smithson under whom he acquired a great command of architectural drawing. The round red name stamp that Salter uses to certify each of his drawings imitates the famous red name stamp of the Smithsons. He has a mastery of projection, most observable in the large axonometric drawing of the entrance ramp, while at the same time being able to retain an intimacy of scale and atmosphere, as shown by the drawing of the bedroom with the figure rising from the bed.\r\n\r\nThe V&A holds several drawings by the Smithsons, and this acquisition complements the teacher-pupil relation in draughtsmanship. 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