Or, ‘Deny Oneself’ by Will Self; maybe this would of been a more fitting title. Being a student of architecture the Nine Elms development is a topic of debate that interests me, so after reading the original title of this article I was instantly interested in what the writer had to say. I for one am a generic lover of the Battersea Power Station, a public structural figure that most Londoners love to admire and sadly, are mortified at the fact it is soon to be removed from our vista. The article itself starts strong, rather daring, identifying the power station's iconic status by referring to Adolf Hitler's ideological obsessions with monumentality as comparison. However this bold approach would not resonate through the course of the piece and fall flatter than a Nazi comb over.
The writer merely hovers over the sub-genres of which this article should of had the courage to devour into, such as the “£400m the Malaysians paid for the site” and the “happy flats for rich shiny people”, whether he agreed or disagreed with the plans for development. Instead the article digressed into a banal monologue of himself and some PR twat selling flats, raising the issues he had with how said twat uses the term ‘iconic’ to describe the power station.
Shame, after overtly romanticising his cycle route over Chelsea Bridge, you would be left to assume that someone that lives less than a mile away would have something more provocative or interesting to say about the Battersea power station and where it futures lies.
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