Conran switched-on to Battersea site

Coming soon to that abandoned petrol station, run-down street corner or obsolete industrial building near you – a new Terence Conran restaurant! Only joking. We think. It seems that every building which falls into disuse is linked in the pages of the national press with the ubiquitous “design guru and restaurateur”. The latest one is the Art Deco control room at Battersea Power Station, which, The Daily Telegraph informs its readers, “isn’t Mezzo-sized but has beautiful panels and dials”. Good for clocking up the bills, no doubt.