Knightsbridge private park - English Quarter
One of my goals is to shoot all the iconic projects and locations in the cities where Whitewill sells real estate. Through photo stories, I try to capture the atmosphere and architectural details of these locations to help our clients find the right place to live or invest.
In early August, I decided to visit several newly built luxury homes in Khamovniki. Knightsbridge Private Park is located just one block away from Intek’s Sadovye Kvartaly.
I saw this stunning building in person for the first time during one of my evening walks through Khamovniki. We walked past a beautiful cream-colored facade with white columns and ornate balconies.
I ran my hand over the cold, black cast-iron gate leading to one of the dozen townhouses. Rows of thuja trees looked like a bright green carpet, shielding the contents of the cozy terraces from prying eyes. For a moment, I felt as if I’d been teleported to London.
Only the imposing Soviet five-story apartment buildings standing on my right, staring sternly at this festive house that resembled a lavishly decorated wedding cake, reminded me that I was in Moscow. “Well, what did you expect?” the architects might say—such is the dense fabric of the modern city.
The architecture and name of the Knightsbridge Private Park project evoke London’s prestigious Knightsbridge neighborhood, with its rows of charming cream-and-white townhouse facades.
Above the entrance to each house, supported by massive columns, hangs a balcony that also serves as a rain canopy. Whitewill’s London office at Fifty Sloane Avenue is located a few hundred meters from this neighborhood.
The private inner park is spacious for a courtyard hidden from prying eyes within the clubhouse grounds. Every day, gardeners tend to the trees, trim the neat rectangular hedges, and mow the lawn.
On one side, the park borders a future spa center with a pool, and on the other, a private preschool. It’s an accredited English-style preschool, which is why it costs 120,000₽ per month per child. But this price doesn’t deter the residents of Khamovniki, and the classes are almost completely full.
The ground floors along the perimeter of the building feature two-level townhouses, which come in two types. The first type has a separate entrance from the street and a small patio in front of the house; the second type features a spacious terrace raised three meters above ground level. This height hides what’s happening on the terrace from passersby, but the main concern during construction remained the windows of the five-story buildings across the street.
A dense green hedge of one-and-a-half-meter-tall thuja trees, which the developer planted around the perimeter of the terrace and which grow 20–30 cm per season, came to the rescue. In a year or two, they’ll hide from one another Nikolai Semyonovich, standing in his trunks with a cigarette on the balcony of a five-story building, and Aristarkh Leopoldovich in his velvet Versace robe, who is getting ready to sunbathe on the terrace of his townhouse worth three hundred million rubles. Their eyes will never meet again.
The lobbies are serene, decorated in shades of white and gold; the parking garage is elegant, with glossy ceramic tiles on the walls and columns and green lighting highlighting the parking spaces. There are many visually pleasing details and engravings on the intercoms, doorbell buttons, and gates.
Some clients were put off by the window layout, which is traditional for London but unfamiliar to Russians. The Moscow version turned out to be square rather than the classic elongated rectangle. But that’s a matter of taste. Although one of our clients told the broker during the showing that he had already spent seven years against his will behind such a window, and it brings back less-than-pleasant memories for him. Perception depends on one’s background.
That said, the apartments and penthouses themselves turned out to be high-quality and pleasantly expensive. Prices start at 1,150,000₽ per square meter. The developer has only a few units left for sale, including a trophy penthouse and several townhouses, but we still have several apartments in our inventory available directly from owners and investors.
I believe that Knightsbridge Private Park is a bold, beautiful project in the right neighborhood. This building definitely enhances Moscow, regardless of how one feels about it. It’s a pleasure to live there, surrounded by the greenery of a private park, exchanging polite, English-style greetings with the few high-profile neighbors whose surnames are familiar from the pages of Forbes, society columns, glossy magazines, and sports event posters.
Others can simply stroll by, examining the details and furtively peering into the windows lit up in the evenings, hoping to catch a glimpse of Fyodor Smolov or Nastasya Samburskaya.
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