Sophie Percival

HOLLY-BURB-LAND. Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW11. 2016

So successful has Hampstead Garden Suburb been in defying change over time that it has become perhaps what it was always destined to be, i.e. a television and film set in which to make endless Edwardian class-based dramas. Here a few existing houses in Meadway are stealthily tuned into studios by peeling back the existing walls, inserting sections of luminous pink bricks, and hiding camera positions into the ubiquitous hedges that line the estate. All of the changes conform (albeit unconventionally) to the strict building controls in the suburb, with the twists compounding the uncanny feeling that many visitors feel while walking around already.