Battersea Power Station hosted the launch of British fashion designer Anya Hindmarch’s public design project, Chubby Hearts, which saw a giant inflatable red heart fly between the iconic chimneys. Starting on Valentine’s Day, and continuing on as a celebration of London Fashion Week, giant Chubby Heart balloons will be suspended over (and sometimes squashed within) […]
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Wandsworth Council has welcomed today’s news that users of the London Underground are to benefit from increased capacity on the Northern Line. The Northern line carries around 225,000 passengers a day between 5pm and 7pm.Customers coming in and out of Wandsworth will now benefit from 30 trains an hour on the Kennington to Morden section […]
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Wandsworth Council has teamed up with the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) to launch a competition to improve an important community gateway. The aim is to improve the appearance and feel of Thessaly Road Railway Bridge in Battersea near New Covent Garden Market. This follows long-standing plans by the council to improve the bridge following […]
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Penguin Random House UK is the latest major creative company to announce it is opening a new London office in Nine Elms. It has confirmed it has signed an agreement to lease 83,400 square feet across five floors from developers Ballymore at One Embassy Gardens. It will also retain its existing office in nearby Vauxhall […]
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Looking to grab some grub? Nine Elms offers a variety of cuisines and types of restaurants: from riverside sit-down places to quick grab-and-go setups. Sit down restaurants: Fiume – Circus West Village Italian chef Francesco Mazzei presents a new modern Italian restaurant at Battersea Power Station, named Fiume (Italian word for ‘river’). Dig into the new menu featuring […]
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Council leader Ravi Govindia was invited today to speak at an event marking the completion of building work at the new American Embassy in Nine Elms The embassy will not be formally opened until the New Year but a special architectural event was hosted today to unveil its striking design. The US Government’s decision to […]
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