Mason and Fifth Hotel, Westbourne Park flexible stay destination, West London building redevelopment architecture

Mason & Fifth Hotel in Westbourne Park, London

3 + 2 September 2025

Architects: AHMM with TiggColl

Location: Westbourne Park, 11 Woodfield Rd, London, W9 2BA, England, UK – on the Grand Union Canal.

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Mason and Fifth Hotel, Westbourne Park, London, UK

Mason and Fifth Hotel a vibrant new waterfront flexible stay destination designed by AHMM with TiggColl opens on Grand Union Canal in London.

photos © Rob Parrish

Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is a new mixed-use development which transforms a brownfield site that was formerly home to the Licenced Taxi Drivers’ Association Headquarters, into a vibrant new waterfront destination along the Grand Union Canal. The scheme aims to attract a new community of young creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, and professionals to West London.

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Designed by AHMM, the project is formed of a family of buildings of varying scales, wrapped around an urban courtyard that opens up on to the canal. A new 332-key flexible living development with interiors designed by TiggColl anchors the scheme and includes an extensive amenity offering of social and work lounges, a communal dining space, listening lounge, screening room, and a wellness suite with a swimming pool, gym and movement studio. The scheme also provides amenities for the wider community, including co-working, affordable workspaces, a waterfront restaurant, and improvements to the public realm.

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Stitching new architecture into the urban landscape
AHMM employed a contextually sensitive approach for the architectural design. While the development rises to 12 storeys at the centre, it steps down to four and five storeys to meet the adjacent buildings. The new architecture is stitched into the existing urban landscape and responds to the area’s historical architecture and local vernacular through façade proportions, Crittall windows, and a varied material palette of brick, steel, and glazed green terracotta that reflects the faience found on nearby industrial and heritage buildings.

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At the heart of the development a new pocket park has been created. Access to this urban courtyard is via a new public route from the residential street, through an archway with a reflective soffit which creates a visual reference to the adjacent canal, and opens up to the waterfront on Grand Union Canal. This space has been designed to benefit the local community, with activation at ground level and a tiered public area that can be used for performances and leisure activities.

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Creative interiors inspired by their surrounds
Interior architect TiggColl’s design concept takes inspiration from the vibrant local area and its rich mix of neighbourhoods including Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grove, Portobello Road and Golborne Road. A material palette of undulating fabrics, muted lighting, textured tiles, natural wood, clay and marble reflects the eclectic urban landscape, and fosters a desirable ‘home from home’ experience for new and returning guests.

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Layered textures in rich natural tones create a warm and inviting entrance lounge, with a rippling fabric canopy which weaves across the ceiling to create a sense of intimacy in the open plan reception space. Warm timber floors and a bespoke marble reception desk ground the space with an aspirational yet comfortable feel. Exposed concrete columns, soft layered lighting, and indoor foliage set the scene for this urban oasis.

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On the tenth floor, a residents’ lounge looks directly on to the canal, and forms part of a 360 degree amenity space incorporating a shared kitchen and dining areas. A lowered timber and fabric textured ceiling creates an intimate space from which to admire the panoramic views of London, creating an elevated haven looking back over the city.

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On the lower ground floor, a tranquil spa and wellness hub features curving, fluid lines to echo the movement of the canal outside. The combination of light porcelain and cool polished marble contrasts with deep green tiles and a wall of patinated mirrors. Large circular sky lights draw natural light into this lower ground space, while the swimming poolcaptures and reflects the light.

Hazel Joseph, Director at AHMM, said: “Redeveloping this site has created a unique place
in the city, where people can come together and build a community. Our approach is
informed by the local area, and the site’s unique character, where the city’s intensive use
intersects with nature, from the creation of repaired frontages to the north using contextual
forms and materials, to the unexpected yet dynamic urban courtyard at the heart of the
scheme which opens up to the south and connects the development to the waterfront.

Rachel Coll, Founding Director at TiggColl, said: “Our aim was to capture the contrasting
landscapes of the Westway’s industrial concrete canopy and the fluidity of the Grand Union
Canal, and to create a design dialogue that bridges the area’s past, present, and future,
allowing Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park to become a part of this location’s evolving story.”

Matt Floyd of Cheyne Capital, said: “Our focus is on developing high-quality, mixed-use
developments that deliver real sustainability and community value. We’re thrilled to be
partnering with the exceptionally talented teams at AHMM and TiggColl, whose visionary
design is shaping a unique and vibrant destination in West London for people to live, work
and relax.”

Claire McPoland, Design Director of Mason & Fifth, said: “At Mason & Fifth our projects
are built around a lifestyle first philosophy, where design, curation and community are
intertwined to create spaces which inspire and connect. The interiors at Westbourne Park
feature pieces from over 30 independent local brands and creatives, layering craft and
handmade objects into each and every space.”

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Mason and Fifth Hotel in Westbourne Park, London, England – Building Information

Architecture: AHMM – https://www.ahmm.co.uk/ with TiggColl – https://tiggcoll.com/

Architect: AHMM
Interior architect: TiggColl
Creative direction: Mason & Fifth Design Studio
Curation, procurement and styling: INTERIOR ADDRESS
Client: Cheyne Capital
Operator: Mason & Fifth

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About AHMM
Established in 1989 with offices in London, Bristol, Madrid, Sydney, and Oklahoma City, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects makes buildings that are satisfying and enjoyable to use, beautiful to look at and easy to understand. Winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2015, AHMM is known for its reinvention of buildings and places including the Angel and Tea Buildings, Television Centre, the Barbican, and New Scotland Yard, as well as key new comme

About TiggColl
Established in 2008 and based in their own purpose converted studio in Brook Green, West London, TiggColl design for lives well lived, creating buildings and spaces where people feel more connected, happier and more human. TiggColl’s work is guided by five principles: transformative thinking, narrative-led, honest expression, radically human and seriously playful.

Winner of an RIBA SouthEast Regional Award in 2021, RIBA SouthEast Small Project of the Year and shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year, TiggColl works in all forms and scales of residential led architecture and architectural interiors. The practice is also known for its extensive work in co-living, PBSA and BTR interiors including with the Greystar Chapter brand across London, Enclave Croydon, and Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park with Cheyne Capital.

About Cheyne Capital
Launched in 2000, Cheyne Capital is one of Europe’s leading alternative investment managers and is headquartered in London. Cheyne invests across the capital structure from the senior debt to the equity of corporates and real estate.

Real estate investments account for approximately half of the firm’s $13 billion under management and span direct real estate lending, securitised European real estate debt and selective special situations, including impact real estate investing in affordable and specialist housing. In real estate lending, Cheyne Real Estate seeks to provide specialised non-bank loans to borrowers in select European markets, with a flexible approach that enables it to invest into all parts of the capital structure. Cheyne Capital Management (U.K.) LLP is authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Conduct Authority and registered as an Investment Adviser in the U.S. by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cheyne Capital SMC Limited is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland under the European Union (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) Regulations 2013.

Cheyne is a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), a founding member of the Alternative Credit Council and one of the initial signatories to the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI).

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About Mason & Fifth
Mason & Fifth is a London-based hospitality and lifestyle brand that set out to imagine a new way of experiencing the city, with flexibility at the heart. Its first building, Mason & Fifth, Bermondsey, opened in 2020 and was followed by the launch of its second property in Primrose Hill in April 2024, and its most recent in Westbourne Park. Mason & Fifth design beautiful spaces that provide a sense of elevated comfort, whether guests are staying just one night or longer. Guests can expect to be surrounded by like-minded people who believe in living life a little differently.

The brand champions beautiful design that is rooted in sustainability whilst being flexible, with no long-term commitments required. Mason & Fifth offers convenient private studios, large communal areas and outdoor spaces. Hosting regular events and wellness offerings that bring people together in London’s best neighbourhoods. Following the launch of its Westbourne Park site, in the pipeline for Mason & Fifth is a new guesthouse opening in Belsize Park and plans to expand internationally over the coming years.

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