please empty your brain below
The idea of something inanimate having "DNA" never fails to annoy me. It's just happened again, of course.
Happy memories of annual wine-tasting sessions at Vinopolis that would all too quickly descend from the formal into the Bacchanalian. That's my kind of "infectious spirit."

Waterhouse | 18.01.21 - 7:17 a.m. | #

Never mind the investors - they'll be the sort who can write off losses against tax, or invested via another business which they'll leave as an asset free shell when things go wrong, the important thing is have all the sub-contractors been paid.

Still Anon | 18.01.21 - 7:28 a.m. | #

Another prime collection of what you rightly call Bolx Well spotted DG and thanks for sharing it with us

Bob S | 18.01.21 - 7:30 a.m. | #

It’s on my inverted bucket list -
places not to bother to visit.

Herbof | 18.01.21 - 7:36 a.m. | #

I feel like the kid in The Emperors New Clothes. It's railway arches, with trains from one of the country's busiest stations clattering noisily overhead every couple of minutes.

Scrumpy | 18.01.21 - 7:44 a.m. | #

On completion this place will likely bring more people to visit the Anchor Bankside pub where, in my experience, hugely inflated prices seldom ever collide with identifiable customer service and hygiene standards are usually an authentic tribute to the once-nearby Dirty Lane.

Frank F | 18.01.21 - 7:52 a.m. | #

So you have been south of the river? :-0

Jimmy | 18.01.21 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Anyone interested in participating in a Kickstarter campaign to comission DG to run a £50,000 marketing campaign for London's unrivalled flagship public transport boarding experience, Bow's bus stop M?

Jonathan | 18.01.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Trying to be hip, trying to be different, but its 'same same but different' as they say in Thailand. Where do you go after everything has gone hipster?

I like the Paul Smith store that was the cabbie office in Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels. I think Borough Market was derelict then, or a 'proper market'.

Bruce Wayne | 18.01.21 - 8:21 a.m. | #

To misquote David Cameron ‘ Vinopolis you were the future once’.

The south bank of the river around London Bridge has always catered for bawdy pleasure-seeking, not acceptable over the water. The branding and PR types have a tough task to obliterate the reputation acquired over centuries. But they are nothing if not optimists and their language and advertising sells positivity. For now at least

Kenneth Morton | 18.01.21 - 8:25 a.m. | #

I loathe this branding bullshit. What saddens me most is that presumably it continues because sufficient of us are taken it by it.

J. | 18.01.21 - 8:33 a.m. | #

How can a railway arch be described as "cathedral like?"

I wonder if any of the writers of this bolx read these blogs and feel hurt by DG's take on it. I hope so.

Tim | 18.01.21 - 8:44 a.m. | #

How exactly do you take a mezzanine level?

Andrew S | 18.01.21 - 9:50 a.m. | #

How can "double-height retail spaces" possibly "embody.. intimacy"?

Joho | Homepage | 18.01.21 - 9:51 a.m. | #

Scrumpy 'It's railway arches, with trains from one of the country's busiest stations clattering noisily overhead every couple of minutes' makes it sound much more attractive than the marketers do.

Tim - 'How can a railway arch be described as "cathedral like?"' - because it's tall and may have been built on some of the same engineering principles? To be fair, I can think of less cathedral-like things (including a few cathedrals). But on the other hand, what's wrong with being 'railway arch-like'?

Sarah | Homepage | 18.01.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #

HOUSE!

(I did a bit of sick)

R2 | 18.01.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #

"Sometimes you just want to find the marketing team responsible and lock them away until they calm down a bit."

Delete all on and from 'until'.

Joel | 18.01.21 - 11:09 a.m. | #

Before I retired I worked for a company who loved to have meetings usually facilitated by a trendy young twit who communicated almost entirely in buzzwords. One of our colleagues devised a grid, rather like DG’s, of these words & phrases and distributed it as ‘Bullshit Bingo’. It made the meetings almost worth attending, and it was hilarious when the call of ‘House’ finally came.

RayB | 18.01.21 - 11:23 a.m. | #

Despite all the pretentious perfidious piffle which I loathe as much as the next person, I hope the project attracts discerning purveyors and succeeds in creating a worthy complement to the area. Once commerce is up and running again.

Strabismus | 18.01.21 - 12:06 p.m. | #

I printed out a bingo card. Does that make it bespoke (the only buzzword I couldn't find) so I can claim my prize?

Bob L-S | 18.01.21 - 12:28 p.m. | #

Alas no.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.01.21 - 12:35 p.m. | #

I predict one day a developer will not bother paying up for this nonsense, the development will be successful (as I imagine this one may well be given the location), the rest of them will take note and that'll be that.

Kevin | 18.01.21 - 1:50 p.m. | #

"Woven from historic urban fabric". OK, it's urban and been around a while, but I think they need to research the connection between weaving and fabric.

Peter | 18.01.21 - 9:07 p.m. | #

Much as the marketing spiel is irritating, right now I'd like little more than a day off perusing borough market, wandering through tourist throngs on Clink Street, having a beer or two in The Wheatsheaf, and seeing for myself whether this new development overcomes the tackiness of its marketing team or is just another bunch of overpriced boutiques in railway arches.

Paul | 19.01.21 - 10:05 a.m. | #











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