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Battersea Power Station is the biggest brick building in Europe and was pumping out power until 1983. It's power now is in our memories if we ever had the Pink Floyd Animals LP, and the familiar site of the landmark on the Thames.

The station is heritage-listed and ideas for redeveloping it have come and gone -- all eventually deemed too expensive. An Irish property group owns the building and a large amount of surrounding land and is now trying to spin the building off and develop the rest as housing.

 


 

No-one has been able to make Battersea earn its keep in a clean-energy era and demolishing it would be unthinkable, so . . . would YOU like to buy it? No real-estate spin here: I will just tell you it consists of two seamlessly adjoining stations each with two chimneys.
Battersea A, built in the 1930s, is the more elegant, with a turbine hall of Italian marble, polished parquet floors and wrought iron staircases (revamp as exclusive hotel???) Battersea B -- to the east -- was built in the 50s with less money around, and its fittings are made of stainless steel. (Restaurant precinct???)
Photo tour of Battersea as it is here . . . and below one of the development plans. There is no roof across the centre; that was removed in the 80s and the ground is exposed to the elements (outdoor cafes? concert space?)
I hope it does find a new life.

 

 

 

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