London Thames at Chelsea (#0178)

The Thames, on a cold, grey, November day, from the Battersea Bridge – Cheyne Wharf is to my right, out of the picture. The bridge in the distance is the Battersea Railway Bridge. While I very much like how this picture came out, and the designs of the buildings are very appealing, what those buildings represent remains confounding for me. I simply do not understand where all the money comes from for the volume of upper-end housing being built in urban centers around the globe.

The tall, distinctive, building on the left side of the picture is the Montevetro, “luxury living in London”. At the time of this writing (January, 2019), a 3-story penthouse unit was on the market but had been marked down to £8,500,000 ($11 million). Montevetro: montevetro.org.uk/home

Much more affordable is Commodore House, the four sloped buildings more or less in the center of the picture, in the distance (in the picture, above the patrol boats). At the time of this writing there was a 2 bedroom for sale (1200 sq ft) for only £1,150,000 ($1.5M).

(Part of a documentation of 2018 exploration/reflection on Brexit and populist movements in Europe, keyword Europe2018)