Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the upscale shopping, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655
#photography
Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the upscale shopping, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655
#photography
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.
@mattblaze@federate.social it’s very cool that you can have coffee or drinks in the control room area, with lots of the original equipment
@georgelund@urbanists.social Oh neat. I’ve missed that.
@mattblaze@federate.social Great shot and great album! (There’s a joke about asking for more hashtags, but I’ll leave that for someone else.😁)
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai Thanks (but to clarify, I didn’t record the album, that was some other folks).
@mattblaze@federate.social If you didn’t care what happened to me
And I didn’t care for you
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing