{"id":5845,"date":"2014-07-14T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T09:47:23","slug":"cosmetic-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/?p=5845","title":{"rendered":"Cosmetic Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Death of Battersea Power Station in London seen by Bradley Garrett<\/h4>\n

I stopped by Battersea Power Station this afternoon after the developers had finally begun to\u00a0chip at the chimneys. On the side\u00a0of the building, there was some new signage promising, as property owners are prone to do, that the future architectural\u00a0simulation and simulacra\u00a0envisioned on this choice riverfront real estate\u00a0will retain an\u00a0essence of place.\u00a0Architectural homicide under the scalpel of cosmetic improvement almost always follows these sorts of\u00a0proclamations.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Spot the difference\u2019 the banner tells us. But is it \u2018spotting\u2019 \u00a0the difference that we should be concerned about? Or should we be more concerned whether we will feel<\/em> the difference? Will Self recently posed a similar question to the head of English Heritage at the opening the the new Stonehenge visitor centre.\u00a0As usual, this is a question of context. And zooming out, the context of this \u2018redevelopment\u2019 is pretty clear \u2013 BPS is flanked by lifeless waterfront apartments owned by foreign investors and yuppies too exhausted from being whipped at work to enjoy them on one side, and a herd of cranes tearing up the block on the other. We all know how this story ends it\u2019s\u00a0a fucking flaccid\u00a0narrative arc.<\/p>\n

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I moved across the river and hopped a small fence to get another angle on the action. From there you can see, after some aggressive\u00a0cropping, how Battersea will die by a thousand cuts \u2013 see the green netting? Behind that the chimney is being\u00a0picked to pieces. The cynic in me feels that killing building in this way prevents a single spectacular moment of destruction that can be protested. Not that apathic Londoners ever\u00a0put up much of a fight anyway.<\/p>\n

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First published at Bradley Garrett<\/a>, researcher, explorer, photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Death of Battersea Power Station in London seen by Bradley Garrett I stopped by Battersea Power Station this afternoon after the developers had finally begun to\u00a0chip at the chimneys. On the side\u00a0of the building, there was some new signage promising, as property owners are prone to do, that the future architectural\u00a0simulation and simulacra\u00a0envisioned on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[838,839,719,177,379],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-heels-lyrics","tag-battersea-power-station","tag-bradley-garrett","tag-london","tag-urban-exploration","tag-urban-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senseoftime.inenart.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}