The Queen's Club Gardens in Hammersmith, London, is an oasis of calm built in the late nineteenth century by entrepreneurial developer William Gibbs. An estate of 33 mansion blocks set around a communal square, it is a delightful interpretation of London's seventeenth and eighteenth century grain of streets, squares and terraces.On an urban level it links and repairs the street edges, creates multiple thresholds and points of arrival from the adjacent streets, and in tandem with the landscape establishes a wonderful setting for a mansion block typology and its crafted architectural form.
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