I regularly drive past Grosvenor Waterside, the 鈥渂est private housing development鈥� in this year鈥檚 brick awards. Are you joking? Smart contemporary lines? It looks identical to the 鈥渂est commercial building鈥� shown next to it.

The development was seemingly thrown together without thought to the sensitivity of its Thameside location or adjacent buildings. And this within a stone鈥檚 throw of Wren鈥檚 Chelsea Hospital. Never was a building more certain to make your 鈥渂lunders鈥� list.

Tim Parnell, FraserCRE

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