Archetech Issue 40 2019 | Page 42

WHITE LION HOUSE MICA ARCHITECTS White Lion House is a mixed-use building containing 13 social and affordable rented homes in Central  London, located at the threshold of a new public space around Centre Point. It is the first completed phase of the ongoing redevelopment of the Grade II listed Centre Point complex. Undertaking a civic role, the building acts as both a gateway to the new St Giles Square and defines a new public space in front reinforcing the historic streetscape. The building’s façades make sense of the site’s historic geometries – facing both the exuberant modernism of Centre Point tower to the north-east and the austere but radical Palladian spire of St-Giles- in-the-Fields to the south.