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| Battersea Power Station Phase 3 |
This jigsaw puzzle got me started. It was pretty tough. The edges and the blue sky were easy, but the rest of it was very tedious. You might be able to see why. I tried sorting the pieces by their shape but that didn't really help. I finally resorted to just going through the pieces one by one and seeing if I could find a place that it would fit.
The puzzle's title - Nine Elms, London - didn't really help. Google's image search identified it and now we have more pictures of this major London redevelopment project than you can shake a stick at. Here are a few:
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| Central London Landmarks Battersea Power Station Project in the foreground This is a great view, click to embiggenate. |
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| Battersea Power Station Project, view from the Northeast |
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| Rendering of a apartment building similar to the one at top |
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| Eastern aspect of Battersea Power Station Phase 3 proposal |
It's an unusual building, which I suppose is the whole point. Once you move in, it's probably just like any other apartment building, except you get to tell people that you live in the Battersea complex and maybe they'll be impressed. I know I would be, much as I would hate to admit it. Criminently, it's just another apartment building. Did you really need to go all Salvador Dali on it? Sorry, I should give credit where it's due: Did you really need to go all Frank Gehry on it? I mean, I guess it's okay for people who have more money than sense. It puts more craftsmen to work than a conventional project would, and if the new owners are paying for it, that's good. I suspect a fair amount is somehow being paid for by taxes. How well that will work out for the taxpayers is anybody's guess.
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