Colossal structure at Elephant - Strata Tower

[teuchter]

This one?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was just looking for that!

Didn't find it.

I just found it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This one?

Yep, that's the one. Maybe the one you posted is Billy's as well

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was just looking for that!

Didn't find it.

you should have searched for tyre and fire

 

[quimcunx]

So you could see the gherkin, even with the trees. Like I said.

So what were you on about, tweakster? hm?

 

[quimcunx]

you should have searched for tyre and fire

tire and fire.


I didn't get to bed til after 3am last night....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

tire and fire.


I didn't get to bed til after 3am last night....

 

[teuchter]

So you could see the gherkin, even with the trees. Like I said.

So what were you on about, tweakster? hm?

I thought I had remembered that you could see it directly at the end of the road. Where you can now see the elephant one.

It turns out you can see it from the top of the hill but off to the right, not directly in line.

I think that what I was thinking of was the road from Stockwell towards Kennington. I think it appears directly at the end of that road, if you are crossing the road by Stockwell tube.

 

[teuchter]

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The first UK skyscraper to employ fully-integrated wind turbines could see them switched off at night because they are too noisy.

The 43-storey Strata building in London’s Elephant & Castle, designed by BFLS — formerly known as Hamiltons — will be the UK’s tallest residential tower when completed this summer.

But three huge turbines incorporated into the fabric of the building and currently being installed at its pinnacle are set to be switched off between 11pm and 7am because of noise issues, the architect claimed this week.



Read more: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3160653&channel=783&c=1#ixzz0jIrvxRwL

 

[Wolveryeti]

That building is like South London's version of the BT Tower - i.e. dead handy as a navigational tool to see if you're headed in the right direction.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That building is like South London's version of the BT Tower - i.e. dead handy as a navigational tool to see if you're headed in the right direction.

Doesn't the Gherkin do the same job?

 

[zenie]

I thought it was gonna be 51 stories, interesting

The mini one next to it looks really, really shit. Both look like they were made out of clip on panels.

 

[teuchter]

The mini one next to it looks really, really shit. Both look like they were made out of clip on panels.

The new one literally has been, near enough.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I thought it was gonna be 51 stories, interesting

The mini one next to it looks really, really shit. Both look like they were made out of clip on panels.

Isn't the other one a block of council flats?

I almost cry everytime I pass that block...it is thick in dirt, windows and all...I am sure it is really horrible to live there...

 

[Paulie]

It seems so daft that as one colossal estate is destroyed on one side of the road, another is built on the other.

Not quite...the Heygate has nearly been emptied but the shiny new building will contain no public rented flats at all. Only some part buys on the lower floors - the rest being private sales. (A part buy of a £250000 flat still isn't what I'd call 'affordable'.

 

[Paulie]

Isn't the mini one a block of council flats?

I almost cry everytime I pass that block...it is thick in dirt, windows and all...I am sure it is really horrible to live there...

With this vast block going up next to your windows, I imagine that isn't so great. I believe the exterior will be re-clad at Strata's expense. Nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that it vanished from all the artists' impression of the new block - the people who shelled out for the strata bldg thought it was due for demolition. But it ain't.

 

[Treacle Toes]

With this vast block going up next to your windows, I imagine that isn't so great. I believe the exterior will be re-clad at Strata's expense. Nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that it vanished from all the artists' impression of the new block - the people who shelled out for the strata bldg thought it was due for demolition. But it ain't.

It was grim before with the location, traffic noise and pollution.... Now those people that at least had light on that side of the building will be plunged into more gloom...

 

[Brainaddict]

I thought it was gonna be 51 stories, interesting

The mini one next to it looks really, really shit. Both look like they were made out of clip on panels.

I think this is the thing that amazes me most about this building. They spend millions on building it and then make it look like cheapo crap by cladding it with what looks like something they found in a plastics factory junk yard.

 

[cybertect]

With this vast block going up next to your windows, I imagine that isn't so great. I believe the exterior will be re-clad at Strata's expense. Nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that it vanished from all the artists' impression of the new block - the people who shelled out for the strata bldg thought it was due for demolition. But it ain't.

You mean Draper House?

IIRC, there's some money for a major refurbishment, starting next year, once the works for Strata are out of the way. No plans for demolition and I don't believe there have been. Apparently, it's pretty popular with its residents.

IMO, it's a very good example of a 1960s residential tower (it was completed in 1965). A world away from much of the systems built crap that appeared later in the decade and into the 70s.

As for Strata: the southern side, taken in November

and a couple of views from Guy's Hospital last Friday

 

[Treacle Toes]

Flipping 'eck. I approve of the use of the word colossal in the thread title/OP.

 

[teuchter]

You mean Draper House?

IIRC, there's some money for a major refurbishment, starting next year, once the works for Strata are out of the way. No plans for demolition and I don't believe there have been. Apparently, it's pretty popular with its residents.

IMO, it's a very good example of a 1960s residential tower (it was completed in 1965). A world away from much of the systems built crap that appeared later in the decade and into the 70s.

I reckon it could look pretty good with a bit of a clean-up and refurb. Possibly better than the giant electric shaver next door.

 

[jefflightfoot]

for some reason i thought this (strata tower) was the shard, maybe because it looks like a shard

 

[cybertect]

This is what the turbines look like real close-up

 

[IMR]

'Strata' sounds like a men's aftershave.

The flats have no balconies and it doesn't look like the windows can be opened.

What's the appeal of living in a hermetically sealed cylinder?

 

[cybertect]

it doesn't look like the windows can be opened.

As I found out today, they can. Well, not strictly the windows, but some full height (of the room) ventilation panels either side of the windows.

I'll pop a photo up tomorrow to explain better.

 

[IMR]

Sort of like baffles that swing open?

It's an odd-looking building, like a small gadget-type object that's been scaled up.

 

[Cowley]

'Strata' sounds like a men's aftershave.

The flats have no balconies and it doesn't look like the windows can be opened.

What's the appeal of living in a hermetically sealed cylinder?

Only 2.2 million for a 3 bed Penthouse. Good old Foxtons, don't you just love em, they've listed the area as Kennington!!!

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=125&property_id=710314&search_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

 

[Maggot]

Has this building got a nickname yet?

I think it should be The Owl.

 

[kyser_soze]

What's the appeal of living in a hermetically sealed cylinder?

It's above one of the busiest traffic junctions in London. I would guess traffic noise and not having your appartment covered in diesel soot would be among the reasons for not having swing windows.

 

[Crispy]

Only 2.2 million for a 3 bed Penthouse. Good old Foxtons, don't you just love em, they've listed the area as Kennington!!!

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=125&property_id=710314&search_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

They don't really understand the how the tube and trains work either!