Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and Vauxhall - redevelopment plans and news

[skyscraper101]

Problem with these high end shopping malls is they very rarely have stores that I'd actually want to go in. Looking at the list of retailers I can see maybe one or two like sketchers or uniqlo or something, but nothing I couldn't find elsewhere, most of them seem to be luxury brands and not reason enough to go down there.

It's a lot like the Westfield malls but at least they seem to have some more useful places like Waitrose or M&S.

 

[Dr. Furface]

It's a lot like the Westfield malls but at least they seem to have some more useful places like Waitrose or M&S.

There is an M&S but it's in a smaller complex between the tube station and the main building, but when I went for a look round a couple of weeks ago it wasn't yet open.

It's really disappointing that there isn't an underground walkway connecting the tube with the main building - you have to exit the tube and walk there above ground and there's no covered walkway. If there is a way then I didn't see it.

 

[skyscraper101]

There is an M&S but it's in a smaller complex between the tube station and the main building, but when I went for a look round a couple of weeks ago it wasn't yet open.

It's really disappointing that there isn't an underground walkway connecting the tube with the main building - you have to exit the tube and walk there above ground and there's no covered walkway. If there is a way then I didn't see it.

Oh ok that's something - I searched on the site and couldn't see it but probably as its not yet open.

 

[Cloo]

We went there the other day - surprisingly un-shit in many ways, but I agree that I can't see the 'names' there really bringing people. The Control Room B bar is actually really nice, and would recommend. They seem to have carefully staged openings to one side of the mall or another so from upstairs the yet-to-be opened ones are underneath the main gallery that you walk along.

 

[hash tag]

Has no one done lift 109 yet? Tickets for the Battersea Power Station lift are now on sale - ianVisits

 

[hash tag]

I wasn't exactly blown away by the inside of the power station last week but shops as a destination is not me. It did appear that most of the shops were now open.
I would liked to have seen some of the original switch gear in situ; Im sure there is and will seek it out.Moving on, did anyone visiting the power station bother to visit the floating pool? It's just across
the road.

I see that Nine Elms has Nine Elms once again, even if tucked away in monstrous tower blocks with poor doors.
London's Pocket Parks: Embassy Gardens, SW11 - ianVisits

 

[hash tag]

Popped in and immediately popped out of power station yesterday, it was heaving.
Went back for a bite tonight, very average but expensive. £7 for this small tin of beer

 

[editor]

I wasn't exactly blown away by the inside of the power station last week but shops as a destination is not me. It did appear that most of the shops were now open.
I would liked to have seen some of the original switch gear in situ; Im sure there is and will seek it out.Moving on, did anyone visiting the power station bother to visit the floating pool? It's just across
the road.
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I see that Nine Elms has Nine Elms once again, even if tucked away in monstrous tower blocks with poor doors.
London's Pocket Parks: Embassy Gardens, SW11 - ianVisits

A lot of the electronics are displayed at the back of a trendy bar that gives off the air of not welcoming unpaying visitors.

I thought it was awful inside, but lovely on the outside.

There's a good bar a bit further don in the railway arches serving Battersea Brewery ales at not-too-bad prices.

 

[editor]

Here's some pics

Battersea Power Station: beautiful on the outside, bland on the inside

We took a trip on the new Northern Line branch to take a look at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station – and we have to say that it’s not a journey we’ll be taking again in a h…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[skyscraper101]

Here's some pics

Battersea Power Station: beautiful on the outside, bland on the inside

We took a trip on the new Northern Line branch to take a look at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station – and we have to say that it’s not a journey we’ll be taking again in a h…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

The first photo is lovely. I went down a few weeks back and agree its very bland inside. Though not sure what else would've been commercially viable these days other than a big mall or something, though I do wish there'd be something a bit more than just expensive shops and restaurants.

 

[kabbes]

The first photo is lovely.

I’d say that it’s a beautiful photo (and I have to say that ed really is a spectacularly good photographer) of something originally lovely that has been rendered ugly in its new context.

 

[teuchter]

I think that was it in its "Christmas" guise. Most of the time the lighting is more restrained.

 

[hash tag]

The first photo is lovely. I went down a few weeks back and agree its very bland inside. Though not sure what else would've been commercially viable these days other than a big mall or something, though I do wish there'd be something a bit more than just crap shops and restaurants.

Corrected. Another art gallery in there would have been good.

 

[skyscraper101]

Corrected. Another art gallery in there would have been good.

Given the loss of both the Tracadero and Namco Funland in recent times I think some sort of indoor entertainment complex is overdue where you can go skating, play video games, air hockey, pool, etc etc.

 

[hash tag]

Given the loss of both the Tracadero and Namco Funland in recent times I think some sort of indoor entertainment complex is overdue where you can go skating, play video games, air hockey, pool, etc etc.

NO WAY.
We have this in Wandsworth and it's horrific. Wandsworth, Southside | Gravity Active Entertainment
I gather something similar is coming to Clapham Junction in next year or two.

Not In My Back Yard. thank you.

 

[skyscraper101]

We have this in Wandsworth and it's horrific. Wandsworth, Southside | Gravity Active Entertainment
I gather something similar is coming to Clapham Junction in next year or two.

Sick.

 

[hash tag]

Sick.

Vomit inducing hell holes

 

[paulhackett]

Has no one done lift 109 yet? Tickets for the Battersea Power Station lift are now on sale - ianVisits

I did - they'd only opened that week, it was a sunny day, so we gave it a punt. They hadn't worked out how to make it a smooth visitor experience, a slightly pointless sons et lumieres experience in a small room, which might be alright if I was 15 and eaten shrooms, but I hadn't. Lift itself is good but you have 8 minutes at the top (hence the maddening stop start queuing experience). View is great. But you can't see the Power Station as you're part of the view.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Here's some pics

The lighting here downplays the foul act of vandalism that is the glass boxes they stuck on the roof so they could sell a bit more square footage to some filthy rich arsehole.

 

[Winot]

NO WAY.
We have this in Wandsworth and it's horrific. Wandsworth, Southside | Gravity Active Entertainment
I gather something similar is coming to Clapham Junction in next year or two.

Not In My Back Yard. thank you.

Very popular with south London teens and far more diverse than the Battersea Power Station development.

 

[hash tag]

Very popular with south London teens and far more diverse than the Battersea Power Station development.

Exactly, how frightful. Certainly not something for the power station.

 

[RoyReed]

The lighting here downplays the foul act of vandalism that is the glass boxes they stuck on the roof so they could sell a bit more square footage to some filthy rich arsehole.

This shows it better - two rows of porta-cabins on the roof. It totally changes the proportions of the building.

 

[Cerv]

is that swirly thing in the middle of the roundabout actually attached to the first floor window like some sort insane fire escape? or just a trick of the photo angle

 

[pbsmooth]

that's a slide. £50 a go.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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This shows it better - two rows of porta-cabins on the roof. It totally changes the proportions of the building.

Someone got paid a lot of money to 'design' that.

 

[hash tag]

is that swirly thing in the middle of the roundabout actually attached to the first floor window like some sort insane fire escape? or just a trick of the photo angle

Its art innit

 

[teuchter]

Someone got paid a lot of money to 'design' that.

The decision to put additional accommodation there was made by the developers and the planning authority.

Someone then got paid to design this, and I think they didn't do a bad job.

But presumably you'd rather they'd actually just put some portakabins up there?

 

[RoyReed]

The decision to put additional accommodation there was made by the developers and the planning authority.

Someone then got paid to design this, and I think they didn't do a bad job.

But presumably you'd rather they'd actually just put some portakabins up there?

I'd rather they'd put some affordable housing there. But I'd also have preferred it if they'd had some more respect for one of London's most iconic buildings.

 

[hash tag]

I'd rather they'd put some affordable housing there. But I'd also have preferred it if they'd had some more respect for one of London's most iconic buildings.

Affordable housing in Wandsworth, are you kidding.
Developers in this area are building nice new blocks and then building affordable housing on the outskirts of the borough or even in other boroughs
to get the planning consent they desire and to comply with regs.

 

[RoyReed]

Affordable housing in Wandsworth, are you kidding.
Developers in this area are building nice new blocks and then building affordable housing on the outskirts of the borough or even in other boroughs
to get the planning consent they desire and to comply with regs.

There is some social/affordable housing on the south side of Battersea Park Road, between there and the railway line (so not really part of the same development at all). It's called New Mansion Square and is being run by the Peabody lot.