Clissold Park House: Frameless Rooflights and Black Glazing in London

Frameless rooflights ask a house to give up a little of its roof in exchange for a great deal of sky. At Clissold Park House, a Victorian terrace in Hackney, north London, Vaidas Vileikis of Name Architecture made that exchange with real care.

The house had gone without care for decades: the ceilings were low, the rooms were dark and damp had found its way into the walls. Name Architecture retained the outer walls and rebuilt almost everything inside them, adding a wraparound kitchen extension at ground level and a new loft at the top. Structure, services and finishes were designed together, and a short palette of polished concrete, whitened oak and Carrara marble runs through every room. Daylight sat at the heart of the brief. The glazing had to carry it deep into a long, narrow plan without ever asking to be noticed. It is a calm, carefully resolved house, and we were grateful to be part of it.

We designed, engineered, fabricated and installed every piece of glazing in the house, from the first drawings in November 2024 to installation in March and April 2025.