Speculating leftover sites and fractured architecture through disrupting restricted sites within the City of Westminster, the '21st-Century Pleasure Garden' is an elevated escape reminiscent of historic entertainment centres in the city.

Situated at 19 to 35 Baker Street, Marylebone with an abundance of historic townhouses and low-rise developments, the close building proximities on all four sides has resulted in a radical building strategy for maximising the potential of the new entertainment centre.

Glass is utilised as a building material and as an architectural infill to create transparency and weightlessness throughout the building. Through analysis on the Japanese craft kintsugi (craft of celebrating imperfection in broken objects) and applying it to stained glass preservation, the 21st-Century Pleasure Garden becomes an embodiment of contemporary entertainment, accessible yet unobstructed on the ground plane.

Defining London’s nightlife in the 18th to 19th century, the project examines merging historic entertainment rituals with modern programmes: a skate park, bowling alleys, a casino cluster, bar and sky garden are elevated through delicate steel curved columns, glimmering into the office, residential and public space.