The white stucco townhouses of Cornwall Terrace overlooking Regent’s Park in London were designed by Decimus Burton, the 19th century English architect, garden designer and protégé of John Nash. At more than 10,000 sq ft each, these splendid examples of Regency architecture could not in any way be described as mean or cramped. Nonetheless, Westminster council is considering a planning application from a member of the Qatari royal family, who owns 1, 2 and 3 Cornwall Terrace, to combine the properties into a single home which, at 34,155 sq ft, would be more than 30 times the size of the average UK house.
康沃爾排屋(Cornwall Terrace)俯瞰攝政公園(Regent's Park)，外墻粉刷著白色灰泥，其設(shè)計者是19世紀(jì)英國建筑師兼園藝設(shè)計師、約翰?納什(John Nash)的門生德西莫斯?伯頓(Decimus Burton)。康沃爾排屋的每棟住宅占地均超過1萬平方英尺，作為攝政時期風(fēng)格的出色代表，它們與“破敗”和“狹小”等詞絕對沾不上邊。不過，威斯敏斯特議會仍然在考慮一名卡塔爾王室成員的規(guī)劃申請，此人是康沃爾排屋1、2、3號的所有者，準(zhǔn)備將這些房產(chǎn)打通成一套住宅，完工后其總面積將達到34155平方英尺，是英國住宅平均面積的30倍還多。