One Hyde Park: The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, London

The residences

BrandThe name licensed to this project and carried on the building. A brand is not a company: it holds no title, builds nothing and runs nothing.

Mandarin Oriental

Brand typeThe business the brand comes from — hotel, fashion, design, automotive, restaurant, club, or a developer’s own name.

Hotel

ResidencesHow many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.

86

Residence typesThe kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.

Lateral apartments and duplexes across four pavilions, including four penthouses

What you buyThe interest a buyer takes: whole ownership, a share of one residence, or a right to use it.

Whole ownership

SettingWhether a hotel shares the site, the building is mixed-use, or it is residences only.

Inside a mixed-use building

AnnouncedWhen the project was first made public.

The building record dates the grant of planning consent to February 2006 and the demolition of Bowater House to June 2006. No opened page names a date on which the scheme was first made public.

Sales openedWhen its residences were first released for sale.

No opened page names the date the residences were first released for sale. The building record dates the official launch of the completed scheme to January 2011, which is after the sales began.

Construction startedWhen ground was broken on the site.

Jan 2007reportedSubstructure work began January 2007. The demolition of Bowater House ran from mid-2006 and is recorded there as a separate phase; the ground was broken for the new structure in January 2007.

HandoverWhen the residences were handed over to buyers.

Opened pages date the building's completion to December 2010 and its official launch to January 2011. Neither states when residences were handed to buyers, and building completion and buyer completion are separate acts in this market.

Who is behind it

Behind the brandThe company that runs properties under this project’s brand and sets the standards carried under it. It need not own the name — who owns it is the brand licensor.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group

Building managerThe firm that runs the building day to day — staffing, maintenance, residents’ services.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel GroupreportedThe building record names the scheme as The Residences of Mandarin Oriental, London and the first Residences at Mandarin Oriental opened in Europe.residences run under the Mandarin Oriental brand

Holds title toA party that still holds title to a named part of this scheme — a retained podium, a co-located hotel. Most branded residences have none: the homes belong to the people who bought them.

not foundPages covering the development name Project Grande (Guernsey) Limited as the party granted planning consent in February 2006 and as the developing consortium; no opened page names the party that holds the freehold today.

DeveloperThe party that promotes the project and carries it through to delivery. May also hold title to part of it — being one does not make it the other.

Project Grande (Guernsey) Limited · CPC Group · WaterknightsreportedThe building record names the consortium and its partners and dates the planning consent to February 2006.joint venture consortium; Project Grande (Guernsey) Limited is the vehicle, CPC Group and Waterknights its partners

ArchitectThe practice or individual who designed the building.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partnersfour residential pavilions

Interior designThe practice or individual who designed the interiors.

Candy & Candyinterior design and development management

Main contractorThe firm engaged under a building contract to construct the project. It builds to the developer’s order and takes no interest in the finished building.

Laing O'Rourke

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