Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Any other business – New Year ideas: put directors in the stocks and knock down Battersea power station

issue 31 December 2011

About ten years ago, over a good lunch, I had a debate with the late Giles Worsley about Battersea power station. The distinguished architectural writer said Battersea was an industrial icon that should certainly be conserved but — like its sister station turned gallery at Bankside — found a new purpose.

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Martin Vander Weyer
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Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He writes the weekly Any Other Business column.

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