But in 2001 an area for meditation and relaxation was created, away from the hubbub of the hectic streets of London; it also provided a welcome outside space for the adjacent Brunei Gallery.
They are the main source of activity on this placid street, but their patient presence barely betrays the hubbub within.
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The restaurant itself is serene, despite the full view into the working kitchen, and it is tucked down a leafy side road away from tourist hubbub.
She has always had the ability to work in a hubbub.
Earlwolf set off car alarms and shook portaloos with their bass-heavy, expletive-laden set, and Friday night headliner Skrillex managed to work up a predictable hubbub over at the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage, but nothing prepared Reading goers for the mayhem that ensued at Chase and Status's Saturday night main stage show.
Diego Maradona, his World Cup career over, sat quietly away from the hubbub, no doubt contemplating the contrast between last night's denouement and his joyous moment four years earlier when he had inspired a rather better Argentinian team to victory over the Germans in a far superior game of football.
A Belgravia institution since the Thirties, and a welcoming oasis in the hubbub of London for generations of guests, it reopened in the summer after a two-year renovation.
Threads of conversation rise from the hubbub: "I mix Vaseline with sulphur and cover my entire body"; "The more you try to prove you're not crazy, the more crazy they think you are"; "The whole medical community is part of this.
The valley is dotted with beautiful towns and villages that were once medieval service stations, resting spots for travellers, teeming with hubbub, but quiet today.
Over the horizon, away from the hubbub.
