I'm spoilt for potential candidates not only in London but in some of the other cities I've worked in: Liverpool, Manchester, Belfast and Newcastle. The Chavasse Park development in Liverpool One is magnificent in its conception. The Gherkin is beautiful not only on the outside but on the inside, as a vantage point for seeing London and the South-east laid out like a relief map. However, my all-time favourite piece of architecture is Giles Gilbert Scott's Battersea Power Station. I'm a big fan of everything Scott: Bankside, Liverpool Cathedral and of course the iconic red telephone boxes. But above all else I love the quiet and dignified grandeur of the power station (even as I've watched its heartbreaking decay as my train passes it every day; I'm glad it's being rescued). For some reason it reminds me of the Sphinx. Perhaps when our civilisation is dead and buried it will be found still sticking out of the sand like Ozymandius.
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机译：我不仅在伦敦，而且在我工作过的其他一些城市（利物浦，曼彻斯特，贝尔法斯特和纽卡斯尔）都渴望得到潜在的候选人。利物浦一号Chavasse公园的开发构想宏伟。小黄瓜不仅在外部而且在内部都很漂亮，是观看伦敦和东南部像浮雕图一样布置的有利位置。但是，我最喜欢的建筑是Giles Gilbert Scott的Battersea Power Station。我非常喜欢Scott的所有事物：Bankside，利物浦大教堂，当然还有标志性的红色电话亭。但最重要的是，我喜欢发电站的安静而庄严的宏伟（即使我每天都在观看火车经过时它令人心碎的衰败；我很高兴它被抢救了）。由于某种原因，它让我想起了狮身人面像。也许当我们的文明灭亡并被埋葬时，它仍会像奥兹曼迪乌斯一样仍然从沙子中伸出来。
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