Battersea Power Station, London, 2024.
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London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.
The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.
@[email protected] Almost looks like an IR image.
@[email protected] after that last flying pig was killed off, ironically, bacon prices didn't fall.
@[email protected] Our nearby power station - Moss Landing - has been torn down over the last few months leaving only the two prodigious smoke stacks. Those stacks can be seen from all around the Monterey Bay and from out at sea. The power station itself was mostly open to the outside, hence not particularly good for redevelopment except as one of the world's largest (if not the largest) grid battery systems (actually two systems.)
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We werre just at Battersea last month.
"been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices" is an understatment... it's a very upscale upgrade of the place, a real surprise to my British wife who lived in London in late 1970s.
https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
We then took a boat ride down the Thames to the Canary Wharf complex. The building lighting on South side of river made it seem more like Hong Kong or Tokyo.
https://canarywharf.com/