• New mixed-use redevelopment on Legge Lane
  • 4 live/work units, an office, and 9 rear townhouses
  • All set around a private courtyard
  • Reinstation of building frontage on historic street
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Alben Works, 1-2 Legge Lane, Closing On Completion


Alben Works, 1-2 Legge Lane, Closing On Completion


  • New mixed-use redevelopment on Legge Lane
  • 4 live/work units, an office, and 9 rear townhouses
  • All set around a private courtyard
  • Reinstation of building frontage on historic street

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We took to the skies, and to the streets of the Jewellery Quarter, to snap the latest progress on Alben Works, 1-2 Legge Lane.

Liv Projekt - the development company behind Sjölander da Cruz Architects - has repaired and reinstated the plots long lost building frontage by producing an uncompromising mixed use scheme inspired by the industrial heritage of the Jewellery Quarter.

Featuring 4 live/work units - including two duplexes - and a double-height ground floor office unit fronting Legge Lane, Alben Works also provides a rear wing comprising an additional 9 (2-3 bed) contemporary townhouses with outdoor terraces, all set around a quiet courtyard space.

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The former site (as seen below), a poorly executed 1960s factory that never truly utilised the site’s footprint, was set back from the street and was at complete odds with its historic surroundings.

It was once home to the Rapid Steel Company that made alben safety razors before being consigned to the history books in 2019.

Since then, Alben Works has been built out by Greswolde Construction, and now offers a fluid rhythm of frontages right across this historic JQ street, respecting the urban and historical contexts of the area but also that of the Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area.

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DEMOLISHED: Former Rapid Steel Company warehouse/ Image from Liv Projekt.

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Images from Stephen GIles.

ALBEN WORKS: ARTISTS IMPRESSIONS

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All CGIs the property of Liv Projekt/ Sjölander da Cruz Architects.

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