London Buildings: they look like spaceships

It's true! Check out the Executor-class multiuse tower they just threw up at London Bridge. But I doubt that Robin Farquhar and Hannah Dipper's forthcoming London Buildings: An Architectural Tour has much discussion of how much the restored form of Battersea Power Station resembles a mid-1980s CG spaceship. Wouldn't a 3D computer game using that book cover's clean, dehumanized look be incredible?

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Very reminiscent of the cover to Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Greco/517214182 Mike Greco
  
  Yeah, the cover certainly seems like work from the same artist. Or a fan of the artist.
  And, the Battersea Power Station (pictured on this book cover, the cover of the Animals album by Pink Floyd and featured prominently for a scene in Children of Men) is one of my favourite buildings anywhere. The architecture is so magnificent for something like a power generating station which, these days, would be the most inexpensive concrete rectangle they could safely throw up.
  - dnebdal
    
    Bankside (what’s now Tate modern) is also great. I absolutely love how industrial buildings were monumental, stylish affairs once, as opposed to the drab boxes they tend to be now.
shedside

It’s Elite!

The O2 (Millennium Dome) is a Thargoid.
Keisar Betancourt

if you want that look(ish) in a videogame, check out http://firstpersonshooters.net/Games/GRUNTS/
Stooge

Can we have a follow-up post on how spaceships all look like anal leisure appliances?
http://www.tropicalpenpals.com/blog Tropicalpenpals

Lots of interesting buildings around London but I think in most cities if you look hard enough due to the size and scale of a city your bound to be able to find most styles of building to suit a niche.
matt H

My first impression was of a double bird. Then I saw it was a building. Then I read it was a spaceship. But then I was pretty sure it was still flipping me off.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

It looks like a factory. No, it looks like two packs of cigarettes with a cigarette protruding from each.
- Donald Petersen
  
  Whenever you see the ol’ Powerhouse, don’t you hear this in your mind?
  
  I do.
Marco McClean

The spaceship HMS Camden Lock in the teevee show /Hyperdrive/ is the London BT tower on its side, with rocket tubes on the end. That’s likely to be in the book.