Chelsea Barracks

Built

Jack Hobhouse

The Chelsea Barracks masterplan dedicates 40% of the 12.8-acre site to Belgravia garden squares, creating permeable public green space through the development for the first time in over 150 years.

NEW LONDON AWARDS 2020

Shortlisted in the PLACEMAKING category
The Chelsea Barracks masterplan dedicates 40 per cent of the 12.8-acre site to Belgravia garden squares, creating permeable public green space through the development for the first time in over 150 years.

Squire & Partners, Dixon Jones and Kim Wilkie were selected by Qatari Diar to masterplan the former Chelsea Barracks site in 2009. Phases 1-3 were completed in 2019 with landscape design by Gustafson Porter + Bowman. The brief was to reconcile the density required to deliver a viable scheme with an aspiration to connect it seamlessly into the wider context, creating a new piece of the city rooted in Belgravia. Establishing a framework for the 12.8-acre site, new streets, gardens and squares connect the masterplan with the existing urban pattern and create a genuinely new piece of London.

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Project information

Status

Built

Borough

Westminster

Estimated completion

September 2019

Location

Royal Hospital, London SW1W 8PH, UK

Team Credits

Masterplan