{"id":10697,"date":"2012-05-03T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:32:49","slug":"how-the-other-half-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=10697","title":{"rendered":"How the other half live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the stats the other day I noticed a visit from Squire and Partners who converted the former Kensington Odeon into flats and a basement cinema.\u00a0 While looking at the drawings for the site, which normally contain outline images of kitchen units, sofas and a dining table, I was intrigued to notice that each of five apartments in a row, had a piano outlined.\u00a0 More in keeping with a music school than a residential street I would have thought or is this how the rich pass their time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kensington-odeon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kensington_odeon_th.png\" width=\"467\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kensington Odeon\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dwg0.pdf\">Drawing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I regularly cycle along a street of three storey houses through whose bay windows may be seen a baby grand in a least half of them but all?\u00a0 Perhaps it was simply wishful thinking on the part of the architects in order to generate sales.<\/p>\n<p>I have written to Squires to ask but have not so far received a reply.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you know when I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the stats the other day I noticed a visit from Squire and Partners who converted the former Kensington Odeon into flats and a basement cinema.\u00a0 While looking at the drawings for the site, which normally contain outline images of kitchen units, sofas and a dining table, I was intrigued to notice that each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29079,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/29079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}