{"id":9363,"date":"2013-05-28T04:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2013-05-28T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T04:30:41","slug":"chelsea-fringe-pop-up-park-at-battersea-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/chelsea-fringe-pop-up-park-at-battersea-power-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Fringe Pop Up Park at Battersea Power Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVq_VzzOPxw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAmong the great days in the life of a building project are the client&#8217;s commitment to the design, breaking the turf, topping out and handing over the completed project to the client. Between these high-days there can be longueurs &#8211; and vacant land. We have been waiting 30+ years for Battersea Power Station to be re-developed and it was an enlightened move by the developers to make a temporary park on the waterfront as a Chelsea Fringe Project. It benefits the public and attracts attention to the development: win-win. Self-appointedly, on behalf of the people of London, I also thank the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pop-up-foundation.org\/web\/\">Pop Up Foundation<\/a> for publicising a set of good causes. As you can see from the video, the cause with most appeal for me was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findafountain.org\/\">Find-a-Fountain<\/a>. The aim is to rid the world of those evil plastic bottles in which water is sinfully sold for a higher price\/litre than diesel fuel! It&#8217;s amazing that we let it continue. Just think how much good would result from banning the sale of bottled water:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>less litter on beaches<\/li>\n<li>less landfill<\/li>\n<li>fewer litter collection vehicles<\/li>\n<li>less oil used in making disposable bottles<\/li>\n<li>less fuel in transporting bottles smaller shops, because they need no shelves for water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Pop Up Event is very English: we love what their misguided detractors call Lost Causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the great days in the life of a building project are the client&#8217;s commitment to the design, breaking the turf, topping out and handing over the completed project to the client. Between these high-days there can be longueurs &#8211; and vacant land. We have been waiting 30+ years for Battersea Power Station to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}