Duke Of York Square is a shopping and retail development.
Duke Of York Square was designed by Paul Davies & Partners and opened in 2003. The piazza has, engraved in the pavement, a map of the Kings Road at the time of Charles II. The Saatchi Gallery opened in 2008.
On the south of Duke Of York Square is the Duke of York’s Headquarters, designed by John Saunders. It opened in 1803 as a Royal Military Asylum, a boarding school for the orphans of British soldiers, including 700 boys and 300 girls.
This was named after Frederick, Duke of York who was a son of George III. In 1909 the school moved to Dover and the building became a centre for the Territorial Army. Its running track was used by Sir Roger Bannister training for the ’four minute mile’ in the 1950s.
