VAUXHALL POSTER

Vauxhall is South London's most architecturally surprising junction — the point where the River Thames bends, where MI6's fortress-like ziggurat headquarters announces itself in green and cream, and where the Victorian pleasure garden tradition is recalled in the neighbourhood's name. Vauxhall Bridge's bronze figurative sculptures, New Covent Garden Market's wholesale flower and vegetable trade, and the elevated railway creating a canyon of arches beneath give the area an unexpectedly dramatic industrial and institutional character. Vauxhall's combination of espionage mystique, working-market pragmatism, and riverside energy creates natural Bollywood poster material.