Which famous building was once rudely nicknamed The Kensington Gas Works
Kensington and Chelsea forms part of the most densely populated local government district in the United Kingdom. This high density has come about through the subdivision of large mid-rise Georgian and Victorian terraced houses (generally of four to six floors) into flats. The less-affluent northern extremity of Kensington has high-rise residential buildings, while this type of building in the southern part is only represented by the Holiday Inn's London Kensington Forum Hotel in Cromwell Road, a 27-storey building. Notable attractions and institutions in Kensington include: Kensington Palace in Kensington Gardens; the Royal Albert Hall opposite the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park;
Gas Works Park or another were former congressman and future governor Mike Lowry, then-city-councilperson Sue Donaldson, 1960s icon Timothy Leary, and beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Gas Works Park has been a setting for films such as "Singles" and "10 Things I Hate About You". It has been featured twice on the travel-based television reality show "The Amazing Race": once as the finish line for Season 3 and another time as the starting line for Season 10. The building is a Seattle City Landmark and a Washington State Landmark. Gas Works Park occupies a promontory between the northwest and northeast arms of Lake Union.