Super Prime

I pass this site every day, but had no idea that this:

 Looks like this on the inside:

Regarded by English Heritage as the second most important modern building in London this is of course the Commonwealth Institute on Kensington High Street. The institute is really two buildings, the event and museum space or "The Tent" as it's usually called (pictured above) and the more mundane admin buildings. 

Chelsfield Partners and the Ilchester Estate recently (mid September) gained planning permission to redevelop the site. The Tent stays and will be the new home to the Design Museum, but the admin blocks are going, to be replaced by 62 resi units. As sites go this is on a par with the Phillimores, the Westcity Holdings/Northacre development which completed in 2004 just up the road. That one sticks in my mind for two reasons, one is that the parking spaces were being sold for £100,000 a pop, the other was that the brochure for the development was made out of mahogany and cost £125. This is super prime territory.