Chiswick Buisiness Park

Chiswick Buisiness Park is an intersting new development in south west London. The philosophy of the site is to increase workers productivity by producing a pleasant environment in which to work and thus making office workers enjoy work. The site represents a major landscape architecture project as the 12 office buildings are set amongst a newly landscaped park complete with a major water feature. This site is open to the public as a park although there is little encoragement for the public to actually cross the security threshold into the site itself. Although the park has been aranged to be a tranquil retreat from the working day- and does indeed have many well thought out features- it seems very much a 'false' environment. For example the scale of the waterfall would be quite unheard of in this part of the country. That said the finish of materials appears very high and I am sure this space represents a vast improvement over the traditional office environment and is well used by those who work there. However the very buisiness nature of the site together with the high security prescense must hugely limit it's use as a public ameinity. It is also worth noteing that very little information is given about the site as a park on the website- despite it's heavy appearance in photographs.
Chiswick Park Website