Took a spin around Nine Elms this afternoon where later this year the restored Battersea Power Station (by Wilkinson Eyre and Purcell) and the new Northern Line Extension are due to complete ...
The new US Embassy by Kieran Timberlake -- dragging American diplomats over from Mayfair -- sold the dream of Nine Elms as a handy overspill to London's luxury property markets (which have no space for new towers)...
It's very important to limber up (neck exercises etc) BEFORE exploring the Vauxhall skyscraper cluster. Atlas student tower by FCBS (left) looks nothing like it's original renders but it's triangular plan shape is actually pretty cool...
Keybridge by Allies and Morrison appears very contextual with all its different shades of red bricks, but it actually replaced a huge concrete and stainless steel Brutalist telephone exchange....
Two very tall towers (called One Nine Elms and occupying the site of the GMW-designed former Market Towers and Colosseum nightclub) are currently under construction by KPF... Earlier designs included a connecting sky lobby...
One of three new towers by SOM replacing the site of the former New Covent Garden flower market (the one with the super cool space frame roof) as part of a development originally known as Nine Elms Square which has recently been renamed One Thames City...
The KPF-designed DAMAC Tower (owned by the same outfit supplying villas and private parkland surrounding Donald Trump's golf course in Dubai) seen from the quiet construction site of Vauxhall Square...
Designed by Allies and Morrison, Vauxhall Square is set to be a pair of twin towers similar to NYC's World Trade Centre, along with a square at ground level. So far only the first phase (this student tower) is complete...
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