The area has been scraped clean and rebuilt. The basin stretches down the middle. Glittering office blocks by Lord Rogers and Sir Terry Farrell, housing respectively Marks and Spencer and Orange, inhabit one side. Wrapping round the end are the generic high-density housing blocks of West End Quay by Broadway Malyan. A presently vacant site along the northern edge of the basin is to become a reasonably promising-looking residential development by architects Jestico + Whiles ("the Winding", named after a boat turning point to be created here, involving a slender copper-clad tower which, following intervention by the planners, will not now be visually tall enough). Further back from the waterside to the north, a large new spinal development of apartments named Paddington Walk by Anglo-American architects Munkenbeck + Marshall is under way: good, but not exactly mould-breaking. These will be merely domestic interludes in the march of the big commercial office floorplates. Next along from "the Winding" will be the biggest commercial mama of the lot, the several blocks of the "Grand Union Building", also by Rogers, which will rise in parts to 30 storeys and so become the visual lynchpin to the whole area.