8 Luxury new apartments, in the heart of Clerkenwell, EC1 The Baker's Row development for Great Marlborough Estates respects the surrounding conservation area with a design that articulates the rich and eccentric history of Clerkenwell and Farringdon. The result is a striking contrast between a bold outer skin of contextually sensitive materials enveloping a fluid, theatrical and uncompromisingly contemporary inner core. The sinuous roofline offers a touch of high drama from ground level, without dominating the streetscape. Adjacent as it is to the historic jewellers' workshops of Hatton Garden, the building has itself been conceived as a modern precious stone in a traditional setting, complete with a jewel-like carapace of distinctive cast masonry panels. Inside, the design increases the feeling of spaciousness by maximising the light in, and views from, each apartment. In a witty homage to formal Elizabethan architecture, the large, floor-to-ceiling window reveals are chamfered and lined in polished metal to reflect and refract light into each living space.