Under the blue sky of the dreaming pigs

[sbisson]

With work about to begin on the refurbishment of the slowly decaying iconic edifice of the Battersea Power Station, with its four white chimneys, the BBC has taken its cameras inside the crumbling brick power station.



Surprisingly many of the original fixtures and fittings are still in place, with rooms that look as if the engineers had just walked out to get a nice hot cup of tea...



Click here for a gallery of pictures, and here for a set of panoramas and pictures of the building as it was, as it is, and as it may well be in the future...

Comments

[neilf.livejournal.com]

Great set of pictures. Thanks for posting the link.

Shame there are no credits though as I'd like to know who took the panoramas. I have a suspicion I know who it was.

- Neil.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

With work about to begin on the refurbishment

I rather doubt this, myself. The same property company has made a number of different proposals for the redevelopment of the site over the past ten-fifteen years, but none of them got any further than the proverbial drawing board. I may be excessively cynical but, given that record, I wouldn't be surprised to see this new plan evaporate into the ether.

And if you look closely at the new plan, parts of it appear distinctly unworkable. All that new housing and shops -- but no transport links save for a proposed pedestrian bridge to Pimlico. Not reality-based, as a neocon policy wonk might say....

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I had a briefing session a few months back with the company. Parkview have only owned the site since 1997, and have been tied up with all sorts of planning hassles, problems securing the whole site, planning enquiries, legal challenges and all sorts. If they haven't pulled out yet, I doubt they will now. And there's lots of materials now being delivered to the site.

Re: transport. They're meant to be spending £10m on beefing up the BR station. And also intend to do some sort of river taxi thing. Given that it's supposed to be completed in 1012, they can probably piggyback on olympics stuff.

[doja35.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful building and I really hope that something is done with it. I liked the proposed ideas... My friend Liz worked at Battersea Dogs home so I know the area and think it would be great.

Thanks for the link.