It sometimes seems like Battersea Power Station's long term prospects will never be decided and she'll turn to rubble while a tawdry procession of developers hatch unlikely plans. Under such uncertainty, however, the grand old dilapidated dame seems to be developing a maverick sub-career as venue of choice for smart opportunists in need of a Thames-side landmark with decent public transport connections. For example, this October will see World Cup snowboarding hurtling past the......

When we heard about the Battersea Power Station was to be open to the public (thanks Annie Mole!) over the past weekend, we rushed down with camera ready. And, yes indeed, the iconic landmark was there to be roamed around in all its massive glory. The folks putting on the show made us check out a presentation on the station’s future and sign a waiver before letting us but they were nice enough to......

Since it finally shut up shop in 1983, Battersea Power Station has been reimagined by excitable developers as a theme park, circus, and luxury housing complex, whilst moonlighting as a cover star on iconic albums, surviving a hostile takeover by Cybermen, and finding time to host assorted gigs and contemporary art shows. The latest plan has just been unveiled, and it feels a little like history repeating itself: the site may be pressed back......

Londonist is so not holding its breath….but they be talking about Battersea Power Station again. An arsonist who targeted the Savoy is facing jail. Princes Wills and Harry looked on as injured service men and women were honoured at a special fund-raising ceremony outside St. Pauls last night. Londonist watched it on the telly and got all misty-eyed. Boris is white van man’s new best friend. Princess Beatrice is apparently on work experience as......

Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings.. While Battersea Power Station might well be a hulk of concrete doing no one any good at......

Every now and then, a bit of London-centric news drifts around the Londonist newsroom (which doesn't exist but imagine a bunch of emails flying around in lieu of an actual office) and is not paid that much attention. However, there comes a time when something requires a closer look for what it is really saying, such as this report on a poll for the top ten London film locations. Commissioned by cinema advertising company......

Battersea Power Station blown up for Batman Sax crime: Motown legend Edwin Star's sax is pinched New station platform too narrow. Maybe we're all just getting wider? Teen gang gasses commuters Image courtesy of Maggsinho via the Londonist Flickr group.......

Greenwich wheel makes council squeal "It's looming height will just look shite!". Of three contenders wanting 'Lympic pool treaty, two pull out leaving only Balfour Beatty. Battersea Powerstation: someone needs a fisting. But let's not be hasty cos it's got a grade 2* listing. Whoop whoop and woo-yay! Today is National Poetry Day! Image courtesy of mondoagogo via the Londonist flickr group.......

Over the next few weeks we’ll be trying out new formats for Monday Miscellanea. Let us know what you think… This Week In London’s History Monday – 16th April 1889: Hollywood great Charlie Chaplin is born in Walworth, South London. Tuesday – 17th April 1984: WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot dead at a protest outside the Libyan embassy on St. James’s Square. Also, on this day in 1999, “London nailbomber” David Copeland kicks-off his......

The Guardian has a neat little slide show dedicated to the new Tate Modern extension. The flamboyant, highly theatrical and immensely complex 11-storey glass tower in the form of a spiralling stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, is destined to rise from the south-west corner of the existing gallery, formerly Bankside Power Station. See artists' impressions of what the new gallery will look like in the London skyline and what it will be like inside its......

Battersea Power Station’s future remains in doubt as the fantastic hulk of the art-deco building itself remains in sorry dereliction. Yesterday, the Guardian reported that the new owners of the £400m prime 36+ acre riverside site, Treasury Holdings, had scrapped development plans approved by Wandsworth Council in November last year and speculated whether London might be about to lose the four iconic chimneys altogether to yet another bland, luxury, residential development if the Power......

Handbags at dawn! It's like Jay-Z and Nas all over again. Beef alert - this time with David and Ken. The deeds have been signed - Battersea Power Station has been sold to an Irish company. Is Bloombury going to be getting a makeover! Plans include a Peace Garden in Tavistock Square. Are creepy dolls and broken clowns your thing? Well rejoice! Bethnal Green's Museum of Childhood is reopening next weekend. And finally, this......

Wandsworth Council have given consent to six planning applications and one variation concerning detailed designs for one of our favourite lump of bricks - the Battersea Power Station: These consents, representing a total area of 4.5 million sq ft mean that, for the first time, the project can now move forward towards the construction stage and leasing programme. Victor Hwang, President of Parkview International explains why it's taken so long to get this far:......

Lu¡s Pérez's Battersea Power Station gives equal footing to two very different London icons. It certainly looks like the power station could hold it's own against a telephone box even in it's current dilapidated state, but there are a lot of those guys. If they ever get organised.........

Remember, remember the fifth of November, as that will be your last chance to see the entrails of Battersea Power Station, and the exhibition on contemporary Chinese art. If, like us, you're really poor at organising your life, and missed the opportunity, then you might be interested in a short video tour online. TheLondonPaper seem to be good at filming spaces, even if they're not so hot at using them typographically. They've put together......

nic0's Looking hole gives us yet another way to see London - or at least Battersea Power Station. In the thumbnail drifting along the Londonist Flickr stream it looked like someone was peering through binoculars, but blown up it gives a nice masked vigilante feel... good stuff!......

Site specific art and performances are all the rage at the moment. July last year saw London shaken up by the joyful prospect of irrevocable change because of the Olympics, then was rudely shaken again by the terrible prospect of irrevocable change because of homegrown terrorism. Artists have responded by grabbing hold of what we've got now to make something beautiful and memorable before it all goes away. Site specific art installations such as......

So Tate Modern gets turned into a minimalist, brushed steel, grown-ups adventure playground and meanwhile, in Battersea, another London power station has a makeover... Like the bottle of olive oil in an Italy-shaped novelty glass bottle that has been in the kitchen cupboard since that trip to Florence in 2004, London has always been meaning to do something with Battersea Power Station. It just sits there. It shouldn't be wasted. It's still useful. C'mon, think.........

Those of you who dip into, or even contribute to, our Flickr group may have noticed the presence of comedian Dave Gorman amongst the regular contributors. We've even used a couple of his images in the Extra, Extra from time to time (including this one of the Sinner/Winner preacher just a couple of weeks ago). A couple of days ago Dave uploaded the image above of Battersea Power Station to his account and included......

We get to see a lot of high quality performing arts in London, just by going outside and hanging around. The National Theatre is hosting another Watch This Space Festival with lots of free outdoor performances to stumble across as you wander along the Thameside walk. The plucky performers who risk the unpredictability of British summertime weather range from steel pan musicians, "anarchic silent comedy from Japan", pyrotechnics, and... three women on three enormous......

Have you seen these yet? They're all over the Tube platforms and the carriages themselves and they show some famous London landmarks such as Battersea Power Station and the Tower of London....except they're filled with gallons and gallons of water, complete with sailboats and swimmers. Next to the hastily photoshopped image are the words: Saving this much water over the next two years (or something similar). Because, you see, the adverts are for Thames......

There's no way to break this gently: There's a whale in the Thames. Go take photos now. BBC24 are talking about a rescue boat being launched... Update: It's a pilot whale Northern Bottle Nosed whale normally found in deep water so while it's in no immediate danger it does need to be encouraged to pull a Charles Kennedy and wave a fond goodbye to Parliament sooner rather than later. Some bint on Beeb24 just......

Another week, another big tower. This time, Coin Street Builders (the guys behind the Oxo Tower rejuvenation) have announced plans for a monster of a residential block on the South Bank. Looking something like a cross between Tower42 (NatWest Tower) and the Tate Modern’s brooding chimney further downstream, the 168 m stack would nestle behind the National Theatre, on Doon Street. Along with the proposed Beetham Tower at Blackfriars, these plans signal a potential......

Time for a quick round-up of building news. The BBC are running a report on the fate of Battersea Power Station’s iconic chim-chim-a-neys. Seems that the ‘up-turned pool table’ may have to have its stacks removed because of metal fatigue. But don’t panic, as ‘developers say they would replace them with exact replicas’, as part of the massive and much-delayed regeneration of the site. The temporary vanishing act isn’t popular with everyone, and local......

Get your bids in. The ‘ailing’ Alexandra Palace is now up for grabs, and is looking for someone to take on a 125 year lease. The Grade II-listed complex sits high atop Muswell Hill and is the major landmark of the area. But like Battersea Power Station and the Dome, it’s one of the great buildings of London that misses its full potential. So who’s going to buy it? Well, restrictions stipulate that the......

It's been a long time since we heard anything new about the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, so it was quite a surprise to day to read they they're thinking of knocking the chimneys down. Now before you start panicking, it's not as bad as it seems, the plan is to kock the chimneys down...and then replace them with replicas. Why? Well, because the current stacks are irreparable: Hong Kong-based firm Parkview International ...wants......

Another pile of 1970's 'brutalism' looks set to tumble. Malbray Ltd. are planning to redevelop the groaning heap of concrete that sits atop the Westminster Bridge roundabout, to create a 913-bedroom, 15-floor hotel. The current six-storey monster was built in the early 1970s as an extension to the Greater London Council offices, but has sat unloved and empty for several years. (Except, of course, for the good guys in Ultraviolet, who used it as......

The BBC has some wonderful pictures from inside Battersea Power Station, showing once and for all what a remarkable time capsule it is. The pictures include the station's Art Deco entrance hall, its futuristic (for the 1950s) control rooms, its towering spaces, and the eerie Marie Celeste feel of some of its undisturbed rooms. Battersea has been pictured before, of course - it's long been a favourite film and TV set. (Here are some......

In another blow to London’s industrial heritage, yesterday’s Guardian reports the looming demolition of the Guinness brewery in Park Royal. Brent Council, in collusion with Diageo, the owners of Guinness, plan to clear the site for redevelopment. Whilst this is a valuable tactic to players of Sim City, in real life a full public consultation on the matter would seem in order. Skulking in an unspectacular Brent industrial estate, the buildings might not have......

As of today you can vote for what you think is the country's most "vile building" in order to get it torn down by Channel 4. It's all part of 4's new Demolition programme, which is very much like the BBC's successful Restoration series only with one, very obvious, difference. The idea stems from George Ferguson, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who started talking about giving certain buildings a Grade X......