Conversion of old hand bag factory in Finsbury Park, London, by Knott Architects, for two couples, Tom Knott and Kerry Stewart and Hiro Nakata and Cecile Telle. Faced with a property boom in London in 1998 these two couples decided to 'go it alone' and convert a redundant factory into two unique homes. Both couples have children and wanted to create homes that would accommodate their needs and the fact that the parents all work from home. It has become almost an experiment in 'partial' communal living, with both families sharing childcare on occasions, thought they still maintain clearly defined...