Cox Bulleid Architects was established in 1999 by Tessa Cox and Oliver Bulleid. The house on Crooked Billet Yard was completed in 2008. The architects describe the project as follows:

"It explores the idea of greening the city through the use of vertical planting as screen, filter, shade and oxygenator to create a new 'garden city' typology integrating architecture, planting and landscape.

"The site is a complex urban backland area and the project creates its own context in such fragmented surroundings. The white insulated render skin establishes the main volume of building as a distinct new arrival and provides a framework for the large-scale glazed elements, the precisely engineered balcony structure and the top terrace enclosure.

Services and circulation are arranged vertically in a set-back slot aligning with the adjoining building to the east and provide an acoustic barrier to traffic noise from the main road. The top floor sets back from the north to allow a large glazed roof over the double-height dining area. All rooms have good natural-light levels and principal rooms face south with bolted-on steel decks providing planted balconies and privacy screens. On the top floor a combined planter, balustrade and sunshade encloses an external room with long views south to the City.

The building structure is a lightweight steel and timber frame with infill panels of blockwork manufactured using wood chips providing thermal and acoustic mass as well as bracing the main frame. Floors are finished with large birch plywood panels, as is much of the fit-out and furniture."

Awards for the house on Crooked Billet Yard

2008 Hackney Design Award: Winner

2009 RIBA Awards: Shortlisted

2009 Grand Designs Awards: Winner, Best Eco Home

2009 British Homes Awards: Shortlisted, One-Off House of the Year