The Cadogan Estate includes some of London's most famous streets and garden squares, including Sloane Street and Cadogan Square. The garden is conceived as part of a larger, shared, private courtyard off a residential street, for sitting and quiet relaxation. The garden is set in a Chelsea of the future, and assumes a somewhat hotter and sometimes wetter London than today, so incorporates lush planting and cooling water canals under dappled shade.

