Chelsea Barracks — Local services in London

A modern partly completed largely residential precinct on former MOD barracks. Problematic and controversial development staggered over multiple phases stretching over many years already teases to be one of the most significant, influential and luxurious in 21st.Century London. An imposing landmark interpreted and articulated with understated symmetry and informed by a Georgian sensibility. The complimentary Terraces spread in an expansive landscaped surround. The craftsmanship and exactitude evident here is...

One of the reasons these apartments are so slow to sell is that there is so little in the development that people want. The apartment layouts are poor, without accommodation for staff, very badly planned kitchens, negligible clothes storage & miniscule non private balconies. The "culinary" garden squares are a joke. The little boys & girls who designed this have absolutely no idea how people who can afford a £10m...

Huge disappointment. Walked through the now opened parts of the development and found a vast sea of paving and roads. "Landscaping" is pathetic both in quantity and quality. Childish planting in Mulberry Sq. And baby garden beds around buildings. All overlooked by unusable transparent apartment balconies. Did adults design all this? So many years...