Went round Battersea Power Station last weekend with friends. It was truly amazing and I want to write more about it when I have more time. Topline thoughts: today's buildings are perfectly designed for their purpose but have nothing extraneous which actually adds to the design. The Power Station had lots of little elements which made the design all the more powerful because they were not necessary to the function of the building. The way one of the inside walls was tiled. The ceilings. Brick work which was truly beautiful and unncessary from a purely utiliterian point of view.
Maybe it's just easiest if I put up some pictures. 
