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	Bankside Power Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bankside Power Station is located on the south bank of the Thames in the Bankside district of London.
		Battersea Power Station was proposed for the Tate Modern but due to financial constraints and less dilapidation the smaller Bankside building was chosen.
		Scott's other London power station is at Battersea and is widely considered a more iconic design, with its four towers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bankside_Power_Station (342 words)

	Battersea Power Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The power station was the site of a fire on April 20, 1964, which caused power failures all over London and also at the of BBC Television Centre, which was supposed to launch BBC Two that night.
		Their first power station was planned for the Battersea area on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
		Battersea Power Station, completed in 1939, was the first in a series of very large (for the era) coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system then being introduced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battersea_Power_Station (1239 words)

	BBC News UK Thoroughly modern Tate
		Bankside's original architect was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the man behind Battersea Power Station, Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral and the old-fashioned red telephone boxes.
		Tate Modern, as it is to be known (reputedly at the suggestion of London cabbies), occupies the refurbished shell of the Bankside Power Station.
		It took contractors two years to rip out the power station's boilers and turbines, which fell silent in 1981, less than 20 years after the building was first completed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/634436.stm (657 words)

	London (UK) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about London (UK)
		Housed in the former Bankside power station, the Tate Modern houses one of the most important collections of modern art in the world.
		The building is housed in the original Bankside Power Station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, which has been converted by the leading Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
		The City Thameslink station (1991) was the first mainline railway station to be built in London for nearly a century.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /London+(UK) (6463 words)

	History of Battersea Power Station - construction
		In effect Battersea is two power stations and the familiar silhouette of four chimneys did not appear until 1953 and for the first 20 years the building had a long rather than four-square appearance, with a chimney at each end.
		In the UK during the 1920s electricity was supplied by numerous private companies who built small power stations for individual industries with some of the surplus power generated going to the public supply.
		The proposal to site a large power station on the south bank of the River Thames at Battersea in 1927 caused a storm of protest that raged for years.
	www.batterseapowerstation.org.uk /hist1.html (473 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Today's issues Battersea power station
		Both Bankside and Battersea power stations were designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
		A 1927 proposal to site a large power station on the south bank of the Thames sparked controversy, with questions raised in parliament about the harm caused by possible pollution from Battersea to paintings in the nearby Tate gallery on Millbank.
		Ironically, Battersea power station was the first choice of venue for the new Tate Modern.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,362946,00.html (450 words)

	Power Plants on the Way Out?
		Power stations, the behemoths of the industrial age, could be on the way out.
		He says that by 2050 we must cut average emissions to a fifth of those from a modern, efficient coal-burning power station and to less than half those from natural-gas plants.
		The people that spread thousand-megawatt power plants across the planet now see the future in small generators, each little more than a millionth as powerful, in basements and backyards round the world.
	members.cox.net /mppowers1/powerplant.htm (1366 words)

	TIME Europe Architecture: In Art, Size Matters 5/15/2000
		As power stations go, Bankside was a looker, which is to say that it's a hulking lunker of a building with a tapering chimney that doesn't so much echo the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on the opposite side of the river as mock it.
		What makes the occupation especially sweet is that as of this week, one has a supersize, super-hyped gallery of sufficient wattage to house one's work: the former Bankside power station, which for almost 20 years provided electricity for London, and will for the foreseeable future provide heat for its art and tourist scene.
		Just as the power station had three sections — one for the boilers, one for the turbines and one for the transformers — the Tate Modern has three divisions as well.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0515/tate.html (966 words)

	Big green energy machines - The Industrial Physicist
		The Bankside power station in London, for example (Figure 1a), now a modern art gallery of the Tate Museum (Figure 1b), opened in 1953.
		Yet, a power station today differs little in the space it occupies from that of 50 or 100 years ago.
		The zero-emission power plant is a compact, fast, powerful turbine operating at high temperature and pressure, consuming methane and oxygen, and putting out electricity and liquid carbon dioxide that can be sequestered.
	www.tipmagazine.com /tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-5/p20.html (2961 words)

	World Monuments Watch
		The building’s celebrated exterior was the work of prominent architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for his monumental creations such as the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and the Bankside Power Station (now the Tate Modern).
		The Battersea Power Station Community Group is campaigning for stabilization measures and staged rehabilitation work to commence as soon as possible, while the long-term future of the building is reconsidered.
		The four great chimney stacks of Battersea Power Station, built in 1932, have become an indelible part of London& skyline, terminating vistas along the Thames and commanding road and rail approaches to the city.
	www.wmf.org /html/programs/unkbat.html (245 words)

	pp-conversions
		The power station was closed in 1981 and remained unoccupied until 1994, although a London Electricity substation has remained in operation throughout the period.
		The power plant was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, also the architect of the iconic Battersea Power Station, and built in two phases between 1947 and 1963.
		The 60-MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in Telemark, Norway, was the world’s largest power plant when it opened in 1911 after six years of construction.
	www.industcards.com /pp-conversions.htm (1030 words)

	Hudson Valley Ruins: Yonkers Power Station, aka Glenwood Power Station
		The Yonkers Power Station of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, more popularly known as the Glenwood Power Station, was built between 1904 and 1906.
		The Power Station had “capacity sufficient to care for the needs of a considerable part of the county” in 1950.
		The Yonkers Power Station was put on standby in the 1950s, and closed in the 1960s.
	www.hudsonvalleyruins.org /yasinsac/glenwood/glenwood.html (1635 words)

	Tate Modern inside & out: II & by Francis Morrone
		While there were those in the architectural profession who preferred the power station be pulled down and replaced by a “signature” building, that instead the Tate preserved and retrofitted the plant is cause for hosannas.
		Given that this was an enormous power plant, the scale of which was what it was, meant that so modulating its impact was a fairly tall order, and we sometimes insufficiently appreciate the care and skill that go into the design of a building like this.
		If Bankside is not the near-masterpiece that the Battersea plant is, Scott nonetheless succeeded here with a tact and decorum that is scarcely imaginable among many London architects of today.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/19/jun01/morrone.htm (3988 words)

	Tate Modern, London, England - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com
		Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art housed in the former Bankside Power Station.
	www.freefoto.com /pictures/uklondon/tate_modern/index.asp (65 words)

	Tate Modern, The :: 25 Bankside, London, England, United Kingdom :: Glass Steel and Stone
		Even if it is an ugly power station, they realize that sentiments change over the years, and today's discarded hulk of a structure can emerge like a phoenix as tomorrow's ultra-modern too-hip-for-you mega tourist attraction.
		When the abandoned power station on the banks of the Thames was considered, many scoffed.
		They said the building was too old, and the massive space housing the power generators was too big for serious art.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/296.php (486 words)

	Guardian Battersea power station
		The mighty Bankside Power Station, housing the Tate Modern, is just west of the theatre.
		(built during 1939-45) are clad in Portland stone, the bridge was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who was also the architect of Bankside Power Station and the red telephone box, a British icon.
		Southwark Cathedral is the oldest Gothic church in London (c.1220) with interesting memorials connected with the Elizabethan theatres of Bankside, William Shakespeare and John Harvard.
	www.air-rail-oil.com /travel/londonbridges.htm (1043 words)

	The Architectural Review: TATE MODERN: HERZOG & DE MEURON.(Brief Arti... @ HighBeam Research
		The recolonization of Bankside Power Station to house Tate Modern is a singular and visionary project that supplants obsolete heavy industry with contemporary culture.
		One of the main recommendations that emerged from the King's Cross Station fire meant that everything used in the station had to have low smoke and low toxicity.
		The transformed, enormous turbine hall has proved to be as much a visitor attraction as the Tate collection of international modern art from 1900 though to the present day itself.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77150923&refid=holomed_1 (592 words)

	Britannia Travel News Centre
		The original Bankside Power Station - designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and designer of the red telephone box - is being converted by one of the leading architectural practices in Europe, the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, who won an international competition that attracted 148 entries.
		Tate Modern will open to the public in the transformed Bankside Power Station on 12 May 2000.
		The Bankside building (see photo above) will be a remarkable combination of the old and the new.
	www.britannia.com /Travelnews/newtate.html (582 words)

	MIT east campus life cycle assessment
		Bankside Power Station has been transformed into Tate Modern by the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron.
		Tate Modern, London: Tate museum branch dedicated to modern art museum housed in the former Bankside Power Station.
		Restaurants have now opened and nearby buildings have been converted for use as upscale lodging, expanding the economic impact of the original investment.
	www.archinode.com /lcaadapt2.html (825 words)

	Bankside Gallery
		Bankside Power Station, sited on the Thames, directly opposite St Paul's Cathedral, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who also designed Battersea Power Station and the famous red telephone box).
		To cope with its expanding collections the Tate Gallery will shortly open its new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in the revitalised Bankside Power Station to house modern art from Britain and abroad.
		The new scheme maintains the integrity of the original design while emphasising the new function through the extensive use of glass.
	www.dow.com /styrofoam/europe/uk/case/gbabcs03.htm (243 words)

	Architecture and Sir John Soane's Museum
		The gallery, located on the South Bank just opposite of St. Paul's Cathedral, was originally the Bankside Power Station.
		Designed by Sir Giles Bilbert Scott in the early decades of the twentieth century, the power station under went a £130 million redevelopment in order to house the extensive modern and contemporary art collection now permanently on display at the Tate.
		Similarly, the Battersea Power Station, with its famous four chimneys, "has a developer who plans to turn it into a multi-screen cinema, two hotels, two theatres and a shopping complex.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG01/kordis/london/soane.html (404 words)

	Bankside Power Station
		Bankside is a locality, but is also home to Tate Modern's art gallery which is housed in the former Bankside Power Station after which this site is named.
		The Bankside pages are a part of the Fynevue Chronicles
		Welcome to Bankside, London, on the river Thames.
	www.btinternet.com /~fynevue/bankside (110 words)

	Bankside. The Tate Modern. Poems.
		Each time I return another chunk of Brentford or Ealing that formed the backdrop to my childhood has vanished and some new edifice of glass, concrete or brick confronts me. Sometimes however it is the use that has been changed as is the case with the Old Bankside Power Station.
		I was surprised to find that it was next to the Power Station I had visited twenty odd years earlier.
		The legend of Bankside had reached me up there in the wilds of Northumberland, including the Millennium bridge fiasco.
	www.sandmartyn.freeserve.co.uk /bankside/gal.html (1026 words)

	Bankside Power Station
		Opposite CLS, on other side of the river is the disused Bankside Power Station, now being developed as an additional site for the Tate Gallery.
		A key element in the project to turn Bankside into the Tate Gallery of Modern Art is a footbridge over the Thames to the St Paul's stairs.
		The Tate plans to open the Tate Gallery of Modern Art at Bankside to the public in the year 2000.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /citylond/bankside.html (464 words)

	ipedia.com: Cambridge University Library Article
		It was built between 1931 and 1934 under architect Giles Gilbert Scott and bears a marked resemblance to his industrial creations such as the Bankside Power Station.
		As a legal deposit library, it is entitled to claim without charge a copy of all books, journals, printed maps and music published in Britain and Ireland.
	www.ipedia.com /cambridge_university_library.html (241 words)

	About Ernst & Young - Commitment to the Arts - Tate
		The Tate Modern gallery opened in the transformed Bankside Power Station in May 2000, taking its place among the great modern art museums of the world.
		During the £134 million transformation of the 34,000 square metre Bankside Power Station, Ernst & Young sponsored a temporary Visitor Centre at the site.
		The centre enabled the local business and residential communities to see the transformation of what promises to be one of the top three modern art galleries in the world and which is estimated to have direct economic benefits to London of £50-90 million each year and help create 2,400 new jobs.
	www.eygcs.com /global/content.nsf/UK/About_EY_-_Cmt_to_the_Arts_-_Tate (212 words)

	Search: Tate Modern
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		modern art opened on Bankside in May 2000.
	www.dogpile.co.uk /uk.dogpl/search/web/Tate+Modern (339 words)

	Rebecca Horn Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern displays the Tate's collection of inter...
		Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern will display the Tate Co...
		Between Cinema and a Hard Place is a unique survey of art at the end of the twentieth centur...
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