Wednesday 29 June 2011

One Hyde Park: The most expensive ghost town in the world? - Telegraph

One Hyde Park: The most expensive ghost town in the world? - Telegraph

The best thing that can be said about One Hyde Park is that it could have been much worse. This dull-fronted development of four blocks of galactically-priced flats is easily ignored as one tries to negotiate the hellish junction that connects Knightsbridge with the Brompton Road.

Yes, there is a McLaren showroom at the base of one block with a Formula One car strapped to the wall, and a Rolex shop at the base of another, and some token bits of greenery protected from the exhaust fumes by glass boxes - a distopian feature, that - but you can seeth your way through near-stationary traffic without paying too much attention to what the Royal Mail still insists is 100 Knightsbridge. Which is probably how the inmates like it.

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