Wendover Projects
Wendover Projects is a design-led development practice working across architecture, interiors, and real estate. Operating as both developer and delivery partner, they bring a holistic approach to projects, taking them from early concept through to completion. Their work focuses on creating distinctive residential and commercial spaces that respond to context, material, and environment. By combining creative direction with a practical understanding of development and construction, Wendover Projects bridges the gap between design and delivery, ensuring ideas are carried through with clarity and intent.
Wendover’s transformation of the former St John’s Wood police station into 20 Newcourt Street reflects a design-led approach to development that sits at the core of their practice. Working across both architecture and delivery, the project brings together restoration, extension, and spatial reconfiguration to create a series of nine rental apartments organised around a central courtyard.
What stands out is the level of consideration given to how the building is experienced. Rather than imposing a new identity, Wendover retains and restores the Victorian exterior, using it as a framework to build something more contemporary within. Constraints around structure, light, and circulation are addressed through careful planning, resulting in spaces that feel generous and well-resolved.
The courtyard becomes a defining element, not just visually but socially. Drawing from European models of shared living, it introduces a sense of community that is often absent in rental developments, offering residents a space to move through, gather, and spend time.
Materially, the project remains deliberately restrained. Interiors are designed to feel quiet and long-lasting, with a focus on natural materials and subtle detailing that allows the architecture to take precedence. This approach reflects a broader ambition to create rental homes that feel as considered as those designed for ownership.
As a first rental project, 20 Newcourt Street signals Wendover’s intent to rethink what this typology can offer. It positions the studio not just as a developer, but as a practice interested in how design, context, and daily life intersect — creating spaces that are both functional and deeply considered.
