{"id":5559,"date":"2011-12-08T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:26:27","slug":"the-rarely-spinning-turbines-of-the-strata-tower-south-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-rarely-spinning-turbines-of-the-strata-tower-south-london\/","title":{"rendered":"The rarely spinning turbines of the Strata Tower, south London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-strata-tower-turbines-01.jpg\" alt=\"The rarely spinning turbines of the Strata Tower, south London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voted &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2010\/aug\/12\/strata-tower-britains-ugliest-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain&#8217;s ugliest new building<\/a>&#8216; by readers of \u00a0Building Design magazine (and thus the holder of the\u00a0\u00a02010\u00a0<a title=\"Carbuncle Cup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbuncle_Cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carbuncle Cup<\/a>),\u00a0the\u00a043-storey\u00a0Strata tower in south London presents a distinctive outline with its three turbines fitted to the roofline.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-strata-tower-turbines-02.jpg\" alt=\"The rarely spinning turbines of the Strata Tower, south London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-skyline-1.jpg\" alt=\"The changing London skyline: Brixton views\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-strata-tower-turbines-03.jpg\" alt=\"The rarely spinning turbines of the Strata Tower, south London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view of the Strata tower in\u00a0December\u00a02011. The\u00a0turbines\u00a0weren&#8217;t moving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/razor-strata-turbine-skyscraper-1.jpg\" alt=\"London Razor - high tech skyscraper with built in turbines\" \/><\/p>\n<p>March 2010 view of the tower under construction seen from Brixton. More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-razor-skyscraper-packs-wind-turbines-bladerunner-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Razor skyscraper packs wind turbines, Bladerunner-style<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> this article has now been updated and posted here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/2021\/02\/the-totally-pointless-non-spinning-turbines-of-the-strata-tower-in-south-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The totally pointless, rarely-spinning turbines of the Strata Tower in south London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voted &#8216;Britain&#8217;s ugliest new building&#8216; by readers of \u00a0Building Design magazine (and thus the holder of the\u00a0\u00a02010\u00a0Carbuncle Cup),\u00a0the\u00a043-storey\u00a0Strata tower in south London presents a distinctive outline with its three turbines &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-skyscraper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/london-strata-tower-turbines-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1rF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19929,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/19929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}