A key element of the overall masterplan for Nine Elms is the Linear Park, running from Vauxhall Bridge to the Battersea Power Station site, providing a sustainable, green backbone to the new quarter.
As the Linear Park passes through Embassy Gardens, it becomes the central focus, with further gardens, a pond, walks and public spaces radiating from it. Communal courtyards within the building blocks provide additional private amenity space for the use of residents and their guests, with more private gardens along the courtyard edges.
The inspiration for the Linear Park comes from New York’s magical High Line, a mile long park built on an elevated section of the former New York Central Railroad, running down the lower west side of Manhattan; it has now been reclaimed and planted as an aerial greenway which has in turn had a phenomenally positive regenerative impact upon the entire district.
Simon Fujiwara’s Modern Marriage
Embassy Gardens is now home to three new public sculptures from three of Britain’s most prolific contemporary artists. Internationally celebrated curator and art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal curated the sculptures, which feature along the Linear Park.
The one and only Sky Pool
The Sky Pool is the world’s first ‘floating’ pool, allowing members to glide between buildings 35 metres up in the sky.
New Union Square
New Union Square at Embassy Gardens will be a rich mix of restaurants, bars and cafés, shops and other boutique businesses.