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1. dofm · 1790058214 · focus · HN ↗

   Oh dear.

   The redeveloped Battersea Power Station is one of the most soulless, dead-eyed, wealth-obsessed places in all of London. This is a terrible place to put something like a music venue, unless your target market is the adult children of emigres with unexplained wealth, and I think it speaks to Apple’s sanitised, emotionally-distant, luxury-focussed worldview that they would consider it.

   Incredible building. Awful development. They could have donated ten million quid to the Music Venue Trust instead.

   The free U2 album looks like the work of a tastemaker by comparison.

   1. hbcdbff · 1790061549 · focus · HN ↗

      I suppose you’d prefer the power station to have remained a derelict wreck.

      Honestly, people like you are what holds this country back.

      1. dofm · 1790061912 · focus · HN ↗

         Ahh yes because the only destiny of large buildings in London is high-end retail and luxury flats for the wealthy. That's what holds us back as a country, isn't it? Not enough places for the very very very rich.

         I didn't at all say or suggest I would have preferred it to stay derelict. It's an absurd straw man.

         There are many things that project could have been, for London, that it is not.

         But if that's the only way you see progress — the creation of places for foreign wealth to be spent — then yeah, I am holding the UK back from that miserable dystopia.

         1. pjc50 · 1790063827 · focus · HN ↗

            It's central London. Of course it's a place for foreign wealth; as long as we get to keep enough on the way. We need to stop being snobby about the very real need of the country for foreigners to spend money on stuff we sell.

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