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CONTENTS FOREWORD

By Sean Mulryan, Chairman and CEO, Ballymore Group CHAPTER ONE

The extraordinary regeneration of the South Bank CHAPTER TWO

Nine Elms: Central London’s newest location CHAPTER THREE

Embassy Gardens: From Mayfair to Nine Elms CHAPTER FOUR

Architecture & Inspiration CHAPTER FIVE

The Linear Park CHAPTER SIX

The Private Residents Club CHAPTER SEVEN

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FOREWORD Nine Elms is to undergo a spectacular and radical transformation from inner city twilight zone to shining example of world class urban redevelopment, creating a new landmark riverside district for Central London.

I’m proud that our development at Embassy Gardens is to be the centrepiece of the new Nine Elms. In the course of the last twenty years, Ballymore has been involved in some of the most iconic and successful urban regeneration projects in London.

In many ways, this is the most exciting and prestigious project we’ve undertaken to date. It’s an opportunity to create a unique living and working environment with a lasting impact in Central London and gives us an immense source of pride, as well as a great sense of responsibility.

To find an outstanding development opportunity at the very heart of London in the twenty first century, a short walk from Westminster Abbey, is close to miraculous.

This is undoubtedly the most exciting new chapter in the story of riverside London and quite possibly the last time the Capital will see the creation of such a completely new district, where none existed before.

Sean Mulryan Chairman and CEO, The Ballymore Group

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The extraordinary regeneration of the South Bank

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For a hundred years, the South Bank was the Capital’s central industrial district, dominated by river trade and more recently by Bankside and Battersea power stations.

Although County Hall and the Royal Festival Hall were rare interventions into this industrial landscape, the closures of the power stations at Bankside in 1981 and Battersea in 1983 were the catalytic events which changed the landscape.

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The South Bank: London’s Third City

The district of Nine Elms, stretching from Vauxhall to Battersea, is the final chapter of an extraordinary regeneration story for the South Bank, London’s ‘Third City’.

Sir Terry Farrell

Embassy Gardens, Masterplan Architect

Bordered to the north by the river and to the south by a nineteenth century rail viaduct, and extending some eight miles from Tower Bridge to Battersea Park, this most central of locations has come alive in the last thirty years with a series of magical new hubs of urban development, social activity and world class culture.

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South Bank captured from the London Eye

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Millennium Bridge linking St. Paul’s to the Tate Modern

Industrial activity has given way to a stunning array of districts, both new and reinvented, in the heart of the Capital. City Hall and More London, Borough Market, Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre, the South Bank Centre, Old County Hall and the Millennium Eye, St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth Palace and the Archbishop’s Park – all have created a tidal wave of successful residential, commercial, retail, cultural and leisure development in the last thirty years.

With that track record, it’s hardly surprising that Nine Elms represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in the final chapter of the remarkable regeneration story of London’s South Bank.

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Nine Elms: Central London’s newest location

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This is undoubtedly the most exciting new chapter in the story of London and quite possibly the last time the Capital will see the creation of such a completely new district, built where none existed before.

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It only takes a glance at a map to appreciate the location of Nine Elms within Central London. It’s as close to Big Ben as Hyde Park Corner, Oxford Circus and Holborn.

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Once completed, Nine Elms will challenge the status quo enjoyed for so long by many other Central London districts such as Kensington, Chelsea and Bayswater for example. In its planning and architecture, the project benefits from the visionary thinking of one of the foremost practitioners in the industry, Sir Terry Farrell.

Sir Terry was given the task of master-planning the regeneration of Nine Elms in 2009. In fact, the word ‘regeneration’ doesn’t adequately describe the masterplan. It’s a comprehensive transformation.

What makes the Nine Elms opportunity so compelling is that it’s virtually a blank canvas, a rare find in the centre of a world city.

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Nine Elms Masterplan

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Nine Elms in the London context

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The attraction of the Nine Elms location becomes irresistible the moment you set foot outdoors.

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Riverside Walk, Battersea Park

Chelsea Bridge

Battersea Bridge & The Thames

Vauxhall Station

Running Track, Battersea Park

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Coming & going

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Within an hour of London’s 3 major airports

City Airport 39 minutes*

by London Undergrounds & DLR

Heathrow Airport 58 minutes*

by Heathrow Express (from Paddington) in 15 minutes

London Heliport

Gatwick Airport 32 minutes*

by Gatwick Express (from Victoria) in 30 minutes

Charing Cross 16 minutes for Eurostar

King’s Cross St Pancras 20 minutes for Eurostar

If you’re travelling further afield, Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports can be reached in less than an hour. London’s Heliport is only 5 minutes away by taxi. All of London’s universities are also within easy travelling distance of Embassy Gardens.

Vauxhall Tube (zone 1) and Rail Station is just nine minutes walk from Embassy Gardens. The station sits on the heart of London’s Underground network with the Victoria Line connecting to destinations right across the city. A footbridge over the Thames is planned, which would make Pimlico a mere five minutes walk away.

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CHAPTER THREE

Embassy Gardens: From Mayfair to Nine Elms

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The centrepiece of the new quarter of Nine Elms is formed by Embassy Gardens, a development of commercial and residential buildings wrapping around the new US Embassy building.

BOUTIQUE HOTEL & SERVICED APARTMENTS

AMBASSADOR BUILDING

CHANCERY BUILDING

NEW UNION SQUARE

CAPITAL BUILDING

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The centrepiece of the new Nine Elms district is formed by Embassy Gardens.

This is where the thinking behind the masterplan finds its most eloquent expression; a place of dramatic new commercial and residential buildings set in open, fluid spaces, that lifts the spirits and creates an immediate sense of belonging.

Embassy Gardens lives up to its name with thoughtfully designed and landscaped public squares, parks and gardens radiating off the Linear Park – the soft backbone running through the whole of Nine Elms. This is a place designed to be lived, worked and wandered in.

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1,982 Apartments

Private Residents Club

Restaurants & Bars

394,000sqft of Commercial / Retail space

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New Union Square

Boutique Hotel & Serviced Apartments

Destination Retail & Hospitality

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New Union Square

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This is a place designed with people in mind. A rich mix of restaurants, bars and cafĂŠs, hotels, shops and enterprising businesses promises the neighbourhood a lively, busy street life with the cosmopolitan feel London has become famous for.

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Drake & Morgan Drake & Morgan is a privately owned bar and restaurant group with a reputation for innovative and original interior design, with five contemporary food and drink venues across London famous for their skinny cocktails, global wines and menus of accessible, beautifully presented food, served in a friendly and professional style.

Inception Group Run by young entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling, Inception Group owns and operates a small group of highly individual, if not quirky venues including Barts, a speakeasy bar, Maggie’s, a 1980s nightclub, and Bunga Bunga, a bar, pizzeria and karaoke venue. They’re promising a whole new concept unique to Embassy Gardens.

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Waitrose There couldn’t be a more suitable supermarket group to take up residence in Embassy Gardens than Waitrose. The reputation they enjoy for the quality and freshness of their food, and for the depth and range of their household goods, is the envy of every other retailer in the UK.

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Distinguished Neighbour

“Nine Elms will be a prestigious destination for international investment anchored by ... the new US Embassy”.

MAYOR OF LONDON’s OAPF

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The Design

The decision to move the American Embassy to Nine Elms was made in 2008. US Ambassador Robert Tuttle said “This has been a long and careful process.

In the end, we realized that the goal of a modern, secure and environmentally sustainable Embassy could best be met by constructing a new facility.”

Architectural competition winner Kieran Timberlake’s iconic design for the new Embassy building and its surroundings gives imaginative form to the core values of the American diplomatic mission – transparency, openness, and equality – and does so in a way that is both secure and welcoming.

Nine Elms could not ask for a greater seal of approval or expression of confidence than the United States Government’s decision to move here.

The presence of the US Embassy is certain to attract other diplomatic missions to re-locate here, as well as fostering a new commercial district for corporations seeking an address that emphatically expresses their substance and status.

In that respect alone, Embassy Gardens SW8 already has all the right credentials to become as sought-after an address as Knightsbridge, Belgravia or Mayfair.

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Classic Chicago Architecture

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Architecture & Inspiration

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The Meatpacking District and High Line, New York City

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The most striking feature of the proposed apartment buildings in Embassy Gardens is their variety of style, size and character: it’s even suggested in their building names – Ambassador, Capital and Chancery.

The designs are strongly influenced by the commercial buildings of the 1930s in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The architecture of Embassy Gardens has a highly distinctive look, unlike anywhere else in London.

Although masonry, primarily brick, is the principle building material, it has been given a new treatment that suggests traditional built-to-last qualities of permanence and solidity, together with a lightness of touch that might be expected in an exciting new, twenty first century urban development.

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The design of Embassy Gardens is the result of an exemplary collaboration between four world class architectural practices: Terry Farrell & Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (winners of the Stirling Prize, 2008), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and FLACQ/Arup.

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Only eight minutes walk from Vauxhall Station, the riverside location of Embassy Gardens is a much prized rarity in London’s Zone 1.

Embassy Gardens and the Ambassador Building, as seen from the Thames Clipper.

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Located in Zone 1, the Ambassador Building takes in spectacular, traditional views of London, such as the River Thames, Westminster and the Houses of Parliament, as well as newly formed icons such as the London Eye and the Shard.

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The most striking feature of the proposed apartment buildings in Embassy Gardens is their variety of style, size and character.

The Ambassador Building from Nine Elms Lane

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Public walkway around the US Embassy

The Capital Building

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Carefully detailed; timeless aesthetics

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While the buildings and open spaces of Embassy Gardens have an exciting, lively rhythm about them, the apartment interiors have a more restrained feel of certainty and timelessness.

The aesthetic is inspired by classic 1950s American design which manifests itself through the creative use of space, materials and detailing.

Generous spaces and floor to ceiling windows together with materials such as marble and walnut parquet flooring quietly impart quality

and class, reinforcing the sense of solidity and enduring good taste.

Magnificent views of the Thames, London landmarks and beyond feature across the development. Balconies, themselves a great feature of the typical Manhattan apartment, provide private outdoor spaces, many of which are wintergardens or a suntrap for balconies facing south.

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Uninterrupted views of the Thames and London’s iconic skyline from the Ambassador Building.

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The Linear Park

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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.

Vauxhall Station

Battersea Power Station

The High Line New York

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The Linear Park borrows much from the New York’s High Line, providing gathering places for play and leisure, whether active or passive, away from the traffic-laden streets.

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.

This is a park with a purpose, lifting pedestrian traffic from the streets below, providing an unexpectedly peaceful place right on top of a bustling city, an extraordinary and imaginative use of public space that has been much admired worldwide.

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The benchmark for the new generation urban green spaces – The High Line, New York

As the Linear Park passes through Embassy Gardens, it becomes the central focus, with further gardens, 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 Park is the new pedestrian spine of Nine Elms, directly linking Embassy Gardens with Vauxhall Tube Station (Zone 1).

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Embassy Gardens and the US Embassy, as seen from the Linear Park.

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The Private Residents Club

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The Eg:le Where you belong.

As a resident of Embassy Gardens, you automatically gain privileged, exclusive access to club facilities that make living and belonging here such an enriching experience.

The Eg:le is the private club for Embassy Gardens residents, centred on the grand lobby of the Ambassador Building. This is where you can make use of round-theclock concierge services that would not be out of place in a world class five star hotel, together with a private lounge and library, a fully equipped business centre and a private cinema.

Also on the ground floor, you’ll find a café/ bar restaurant, lounge, business centre and cinema, so you can meet and greet, eat and drink without ever having to go out.

Upstairs, the facilities include a fully equipped fitness gym, health spa, yoga and dance studio and a 16 metre indoor/outdoor swimming pool. There’s also the unique apartment lounge for private functions to enjoy with friends, or for a quiet drink.

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“To live is the rarest thing of all.

Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde

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GRAND LOBBY

Concierge staff are here to look after your needs, including secure parking , post and parcel deliveries, and taking bookings for any of the facilities. This is also the central point of contact for you with the estate management team.

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Library & Lounge

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Mezzanine Floor Yoga Studio

Changing Rooms

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Changing Rooms

Boxing Ring

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Boxing

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First Floor Steam Rooms

Outdoor Hydro-pool

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Indoor Lap Pool

Treatment Rooms

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The Eg:le Apartment

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LIBRARY & LOUNGE In the fine tradition of London clubs, the Eg:le offers you the use of a private library and lounge, havens of peace and quiet, perfect for meeting guests for an early evening cocktail or simply to enjoy reading the newspapers over a cup of coffee.

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BUSINESS CENTRE The wifi and printer equipped Business Centre is the perfect place to ‘touch down’ with your laptop computer to work at one of the workstations, or host business colleagues in one of the two dedicated meeting rooms.

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MEETING ROOM Next to the Business Centre is a series of private meeting rooms that can be used as quiet workspaces or for more formal meetings, with catering available from the ground floor cafĂŠ bar.

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RESTAURANT On the ground floor, you’ll find a cafÊ and bar to one side and a restaurant to the other, so you can meet and greet, eat and drink without ever having to go out.

CINEMA An intimate private viewing space to watch movies and sports events with friends, or to view multi-media presentations as an extension of the Business Centre facilities.

The cinema is equipped with surround sound, high definition digital projection and plush reclining seats.

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THE EG:LE APARTMENT The Eg:le Apartment offers Embassy Gardens residents an exclusive and beautifully furnished space with a view over the landscaped gardens. It has a lounge, a bar, a games room and a private dining space with separate kitchen facilities, available for private functions: it’s the perfect place to meet friends and neighbours.

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THE GYM Wellbeing is central to the experience of life at Embassy Gardens. To help you to stay at the peak of your personal performance, the private gymnasium offers you unrestricted access to the latest, state-of-the-art equipment, whether you want to start your day warming up or working out, or come home to re-energise and relax.

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HEALTH SPA The exclusive Health Spa has a 16 metre indoor/outdoor pool, steam room and sauna, tanning and treatment rooms, and a yoga and dance studio, offering you an exceptional choice of ways to relax and unwind. Fully trained professional staff are on hand to help you to look and feel your best.

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What distinguishes our work is the enormous amount of time we devote to shaping the entire living experience, ensuring that the places we create have an inherent value far beyond their interior specification.

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The Design Cube at Ballymore The Ballymore Design Cube is an inspired workplace for our Sales and Creative teams, fostering creative thinking and innovation.

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We make it our business to take a project every step of the way from the birth of an idea until it’s fully realised; and then we take on its management for the long-term.

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Pan Peninsula at Canary Wharf

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To turn our vision for Embassy Gardens into a reality, it’s vitally important to keep the wider transformation of Nine Elms in mind at the same time as concentrating on the smallest details. We never forget that we’re building for people; built environments mean nothing if they don’t in some way improve, enrich or enhance people’s lives, either as residents or as visitors.

If we can also create buildings that make a positive, sustainable and lasting impact on the landscape, so much the better.

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OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET LONDON Since our restoration and redevelopment of the grade 2 listed buildings at Old Spitalfields Market, it has become a lively meeting place, with thriving market stalls, shops, bars, restaurants and cafés, and it is now ranked as one of London’s top ten visitor attractions.

PROJECTS

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PAN PENINSULA CANARY WHARF, LONDON

ONTARIO TOWER CANARY WHARF, LONDON

21 WAPPING LANE WAPPING, LONDON

Standing head and shoulders above any other residential development in London, Pan Peninsula is a fine example of how inspired thinking can rise to the occasion. Drawing inspiration from North America and South East Asia, Pan Peninsula is a spectacular building that has become an outstanding London landmark.

Rising 30 storeys above the river, with spectacular 360 degree views over London, Ontario Tower is already regarded as a landmark of the London Skyline. The residential tower is designed by the same architects who created the Sears Tower in Chicago, the masterplan for Hong Kong harbour and Canary Wharf itself.

Our development at 21 Wapping Lane is an entirely modern intervention in one of London’s oldest village settlements, designed to offer primarily residential accommodation, but also retail, leisure and recreation facilities.

It brings a new interpretation to riverside life with an injection of bright urban vitality.

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ST. JOHN’S WESTMINSTER, LONDON

SNOWHILL BIRMINGHAM

EUROVEA SLOVAKIA

Arranged around the ancient gardens of St John’s in Westminster, this is an award-winning development of superior apartments close to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. Originally of Neo-Georgian brick and stone construction, St John’s is a blend of contemporary style with traditional build quality.

From the outset, our plans for Snowhill were ambitious. We were planning both the largest commercial leasing and the tallest residential tower in Britain, outside of London. Phase 1 was fully occupied in just four years, enhancing Birmingham’s position as Britain’s second city.

Sitting on the banks of the Danube in the Slovakian capital, Eurovea is a 400,000 sq.m mixed-use river front development of residential, retail, hotel and office accommodation, adjacent to the historic city centre. With a new public square and a landscaped riverside park, Bratislava has gained a modern, urban sophistication.

HIGH POINT VILLAGE HAYES, LONDON

NEW PROVIDENCE WHARF LONDON

BEAUX ARTS BUILDING LONDON

High Point Village offers everything you’d expect from a new, urban quarter within easy reach of Heathrow, Paddington, the City and Canary Wharf. It has been designed to offer an oasis of calm in an otherwise driven world, giving its residents a sense of community often lacking in more anonymous city developments.

New Providence Wharf, including the Ontario Tower and the Providence Tower, stretches back some 400m from the river, with a depth and a substance few other riverside developments have achieved. It has received worldwide acclaim as a fine example of residential, hotel, retail and leisure development.

An award-winning development of 180 loft apartments and penthouses.

Originally built in 1909, the Beaux Arts Building has been transformed to offer a range of unique luxury loft apartments and duplex penthouses with a grand exquisitely detailed foyer to the monumental façade.

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EMBASSY GARDENS Project Team Terry Farrells and Partners: Masterplanning

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris: Architects

Farrells is a firm of internationally recognised architects with offices in London, Edinburgh and Hong Kong.

Renowned for their expertise in architecture, urban design, regeneration and planning, Farrells is a designbased practice that applies the highest standards of architectural imagination and design excellence to all aspects of a scheme from initial design to project completion. Farrells has a worldwide portfolio of highprofile building schemes and masterplans in cities as diverse as London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Sydney, Seattle, Lisbon and Edinburgh. Many of these projects have won international design awards and Farrells architectural and urban design work is featured in publications worldwide.

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris believe in making places as well as buildings, that work over time and have lasting qualities intrinsic to their architecture. They pursue a pragmatic, analytical and open working method that produces responsive, intelligent architecture.

For over twenty years, this way of seeing has created architecture which resonates with clients and critics and responds to changing construction techniques.

AHMM design houses and housing, schools and sports buildings, exhibition spaces and offices and healthcare facilities. Their work is also international, with overseas projects currently underway in Amsterdam, Ghana and Oklahoma City that feature commercial, retail, residential, amenity and educational elements.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Architects

FLACQ/Arup Architects

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was established in 1978 and has offices in Bath and London.

Since its formation in 2005, FLACQ has acquired a reputation for design excellence and the highest standards of professional service. The directors lead a talented team in all sectors and scales of design, maintaining strong links with a range of world-class consultants and contractors. FLACQ create designs that meet the client’s practical and financial requirements and make inspiring, long lasting contributions to our built environment. The work of the practice spans the breadth of design specialisations; architecture, masterplanning, urban design, interiors and fit-out and includes many prestigious projects for a client base comprising local authorities, commercial companies and private individuals. FLACQ is now part of Arup.

With a reputation for sustainable design and innovation, and a strong track record in community buildings, the practice is at the forefront of innovative housing design, from inner city social housing to new suburban neighbourhoods and private developments.

They believe the best buildings emerge from a strong working relationship with committed clients and creative consultants who understand the transformational power of architecture. Designing buildings is a way of thinking – a way of life – leading to the creation of form and space that is memorable and inspirational.

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Woods Bagot: Interior Design Woods Bagot is a global design studio specialising in the design and planning of facilities across three key sectors: Education, Science and Health, Lifestyle, and Workplace.

Their focus is to understand the functional, operational and cultural needs of a project, drawing on their research and experience to create solutions which work. Their multi-disciplinary team of highly skilled individuals provide services in architecture, consulting, interior design and urban design in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Camlins: Landscape Design Founded in 1980, Camlins possess a portfolio of award winning Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Masterplanning projects throughout the UK and Ireland. The manner in which people inhabit the land and the marks upon it which result are the raw materials of landscape architecture. Camlins interpret this behaviour and use it to achieve fluency in the language of landscape. Having deciphered the code or sequence of signals bequeathed by nature and the land’s former inhabitants, contemporary marks may then be made with conviction. Camlins were appointed by CABE in 2003 to act as nominated advisors to local authorities in whose stewardship our landscape and public realm reside.

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www.embassygardens.com sales@embassygardens.com This brochure and the information contained in it does not form part of any contract, and while reasonable effort has been made to ensure accuracy, this cannot be guaranteed and no representation or warranty is made in that regard. Apartment designs and layouts are indicative only and may change. The specification of the apartments is the anticipated specification as at the date this brochure was prepared, but may be subject to change in accordance with permitted variances under the apartment sale contracts.

Dimensions shown in any text or plan are approximate sizes only and actual sizes may be different once constructed (although it is not anticipated that any apartments will be reduced by more than 5% in size). Computer generated images and photo’s are indicative only. All sales remain subject to contract. All information regarding prospective commercial or retail tenants represents current intention only, and the final identity of the tenants may change.

Furniture shown in Computer Generated Images and photo’s is not included in sales. Embassy Gardens and “EG” are marketing names only and will not necessarily form part of the approved postal address. Neither the agents nor any person in their employ has any authority to make or give any representation warranty or guarantee (whether written or oral) in respect of or in relation to the development (or any parts thereof ).

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