There’s a moment, standing in a fourth-floor suite at the new Six Senses London, in the recently redeveloped The Whiteley, when a familiar neighbourhood snaps into unfamiliar focus. The high-rises in the distance sit beneath cement-grey clouds, the whole scene feels less gritty Bayswater, more… somewhere else entirely. Manhattan, perhaps. Or a particularly well-composed establishing shot in a film about urban transformation.
“They offered to paint them,” says the PR beside me, as…

