One Berkeley Street
The 36,546 square meter luxury mixed-use complex for Crosstree Real Estate Partners comprises retail, hotel and luxury apartments. One Berkeley Street is the transformation of a substantial urban block of several disused post-war buildings in London’s prestigious Mayfair conservation area, facing the Ritz. Requiring a contextually sympathetic design, the concept draws on the shapes, forms and textures of the neighboring historic buildings. The development has a lively ground plane, animated by retail, while the hotel offers a semi-public realm at ground and first floors. The residential apartments are on the upper floors. Dover Yard, which is incorporated into the scheme, is much improved to provide not only a through-way, but also a lively pedestrian public plaza and areas of landscaping – offering the public a protected urban retreat at the heart of the development. There is also a substantial circular void at the center of the main building, which rises through the volume, bringing light deep inside.
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