The view from the large front windows is north east towards the centre of the city with its magnificent skyline; stretching from the Post Office Tower, Centre Point, Barbican in the far distance, Big Ben framed by the sparkling arc of the London Eye, Houses of Parliament with the City beyond; the Nat West Tower and the ‘Gerkin’, then further round to Battersea Power station with Canary Wharf in the distance between its chimneys.
In the middle distance are the trees of Battersea Park and the curved back of Norman Foster’s Albion building and then at the foot of the tower block the mix of old Victorian houses and gardens and low-rise estates that are variously Council or Private. There are a lot of trees!
Selworthy house, the twin sister block is also part of the view. Neighbours in the sky – though you don’t get the feeling of being overlooked particularly.
From the three side windows the view is north west out across Richard Roger’s dynamic Montevetro building and Christopher Wren’s beautiful St. Mary’s Church on the banks of the Thames, and over to the brooding Lots Road Power Station.
To the north you get a glimpse of the Trellick Tower, the new Wembley Stadium and then round to the blue distance of West London.
If you love the city but need distance from it at the same time, this flat may work for you. From here the city becomes landscape – it’s a joy.
The view is ever changing with light and night and clouds and sun. Extraordinary effects of weather occur at times; you can watch heavy downpours lash parts of the city, dark and menacing, whilst the sun shoots rainbows and bathes adjacent areas in warm light.
I’ve seen the city disappear behind blizzards and once or twice woken to an eerie white-out, a river fog so dense I couldn’t see the ground until the sun burnt it off… Living here is like living on the side of a mountain. At night the lights form another galaxy…
