A ‘pocket’ park next to the Adshel Headquarters building in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Walls, glass screens and hedges help create a sense of enclosure; a place to sit and contemplate.

The screens in front of the building assist in buffering the traffic noise from the adjacent busy Cromwell Road. Curving sculptural walls of York stone, contrast with the circles of York stone set into blue coloured glass resin paving. A tree seat set around a mature Plane tree in the centre and planting to the edge transforms the space into a garden. The transition between the park and the headquarters building next door is achieved through terraced gabion walls inter-planted with box and bamboo.

Client:    The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea &          Clear Channel
Architect:    Pentagram Design Ltd