Power Station Murder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jun/20/architecture?picture=335166418

Whaaaaat? No! No! No!

Battersy power station as a office and retail space, god no!

Does nobody see the incredible potential of a gorgeous art space? With an inner hall as (if not more) spectacular as the Turbine of the tate, and beautifully crafted rooms of art and music performances. The building would lend itself wonderfully to the music scene, a new space for new and old bands alike, the haunting towers casting an atmosphere over a large but comforting gig.

We do not need office and retail space in our culture starved country, we need performance and art. We need interpretive dance on a monday, a one man show on a wednesday, a punk band on a friday and the opening of a japanese light installation for the sunday afternoon (cream tea optional).

Is this really what we have come to? We would rather think about the profit than the useability of the space? The proposed architecture is, simply, awful. It doesn't appretaite the rough qualities of the original architecture, the momentous feeling you get when you pass the building on the train (at a distance, then close up). Its a historic building that has too much soul to put to use as offices.

I have, worked in a building for 3 months which is (from the front) gorgeous. Its architecture fits with the street, and yet stands out. Its mosiac qualities are mindful of a much more beauty obsessed time (beauty, not fashion or fame). But, what have I been doing in this building? Customer service in a call centre. I would MUCH rather see this building being used as a quaint coffee shop with endless rooms behind, a bar maybe with accapella performances of an evening. I detest the fact that this building, so beautiful outisde, is dull and souless within. This is, what the power station will be, souless with faint memories of what couldve been.

Yes people, realise how manyy spelling mistaks are in this rant.