15-424: Chiswick Park may refer to: Chiswick Business Park Chiswick House§Gardens Chiswick Park Footbridge Chiswick Park tube station Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chiswick Park . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
30-644: A further 11 built in stages, the last being completed in September 2015. Buildings range in height from four to twelve floors. The Chiswick Park Unit Trust sold the park to the Blackstone Group in January 2011. Blackstone sold the property to China Investment Corporation in January 2014. Blackstone retained ownership of building 7, until selling it in February 2020 to Stanhope, while building 8
45-643: Is a London Underground station in the Acton Green district of Chiswick in West London . The station is served by the District line and is between Turnham Green and Acton Town stations. It is located at the junction of Bollo Lane and Acton Lane about 150 m north of Chiswick High Road ( A315 ) and is in Travelcard Zone 3 . The station is near Acton Green common. The Piccadilly line uses
60-492: Is owned by Abrdn . Chiswick Park Footbridge, to the north of the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve , was opened in January 2019 to connect the business park with Chiswick Park tube station . The Buildings of England calls the architectural lineup "a galaxy of famous names", contrasting the park's coherent layout with the unplanned office blocks that had "sprouted up haphazardly" in
75-588: The electrification of the DR's tracks north of Acton Town in 1903, services between Acton Town and central London were electrified on 1 July 1905. In 1910 the station was given its present name. Between 1931 and 1932 the station was rebuilt, in preparation for the western extension of the Piccadilly line from Hammersmith . Although the Piccadilly line has never served the station, its trains run non-stop through
90-691: The Chiswick Business Park was built had been owned by the Rothschild family and planted as orchards in the 19th century. In 1921, the London General Omnibus Company opened a 33-acre bus maintenance facility on a site bounded by Chiswick High Road to the south, the North London line to the east and the Piccadilly line to the north. At its peak it employed 3,500 men, by 1985 it was down to 700. It
105-600: The inside tracks, but, as there are no platforms on these tracks, their trains cannot stop here. The station was opened on 1 July 1879 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on its extension from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway . The station was originally named Acton Green after the adjacent Acton Green Common to the east. It was renamed to Chiswick Park and Acton Green in March 1887. Following
120-542: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chiswick_Park&oldid=1100995250 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chiswick Business Park Chiswick Business Park is a business park in Gunnersbury , West London , fronting on to Chiswick High Road . The land on which
135-494: The other side of the road junction, the tracks of the District line's Richmond branch cross under the road and about 100 m to the east of the station, the eastbound track crosses under the four District and Piccadilly line tracks on its way towards Turnham Green station. The Gunnersbury Triangle nature reserve, run by the London Wildlife Trust , is a short walk from the station entrance. Chiswick Park station
150-564: The rest of Gunnersbury . Tenants in 2021 include CBS , Danone , Ericsson , Foxtons , IMG , Intelsat , Otis , Paramount Pictures , PepsiCo , Seadrill , Singapore Airlines , Starbucks , Tullow Oil and United International Pictures . Richmond, The American International University in London announced they would be moving into the business park in September 2022. [REDACTED] Media related to Chiswick Park at Wikimedia Commons Chiswick Park tube station Chiswick Park
165-410: The station at Arnos Grove that Holden designed for the eastern Piccadilly line extension, Chiswick Park station features a tall semi-circular ticket hall adjacent to the embankment carrying the tracks. Externally the brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof which abuts the cantilevered concrete canopy of
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#1732787039825180-489: The station on the centre tracks, and the reconstruction was required to enable the addition of two fast tracks for those services to be located between the District line's stopping service tracks. The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Holden's design was inspired by Alfred Grenander 's underground station Krumme Lanke in Berlin . Similar to
195-420: The westbound platform. A similar canopy shelters the eastbound platform accessed through the embankment. To make the station's location visible from Chiswick High Road the station was also provided with a square brick tower surmounted by the U NDERGROUN D roundel and the station's name. The station has been a Grade II listed building since 18 February 1987. Immediately to the south of the station entrance, on
210-423: Was closed by London Regional Transport in 1990. In 1990–1991, architects Terry Farrell & Partners designed a master plan for a Stanhope and Trafalgar House consortium for the site with buildings designed by Foster Associates and Peter Foggo around the main piazza, and others by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and ABK Architects around a smaller square to one side. Outline planning permission
225-606: Was granted in 1991 for 11 buildings to be built. In 1996, Kværner took ownership of the site, selling it in 1999 to the Chiswick Park Unit Trust led by Schroders and Aberdeen Property Investors with Stanhope as development manager. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners was commissioned to prepare a new master plan. The first building was completed at the Chiswick High Road end in December 2000 with
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