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Sketches Battersea power station IV Battersea Power station IV This is a sketch in pencil of the Battersea Power station in London. www.raboo.info /pages/battersea-4.htm   (28 words)

Battersea Power Station Battersea is, in fact, two separate power stations joined together: the original 'A' station was a single long structure with a chimney at each end, and the 'B' station constructed in 1953 gave London its famous four-chimney, skyline silhouette. Power generation ceased completely at Battersea in 1983 leaving the electricity board with the problem of what to do with a power station that could not be demolished. The beautiful Art Deco control room in station 'A' with its Italian marble turbine hall, polished parquet flooring and wrought iron staircases, finally convinced the Secretary of State to award the building a listed Grade II status, ensuring that it could not be demolished or changed without Government consent. www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /industrial/battersea.htm   (447 words)

Battersea Power Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Their first power station was planned for the Battersea area on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The power station was the site of a fire on April 20, 1964, which caused power failures throughout London including at the BBC Television Centre, which was slated to launch BBC Two that night. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battersea_Power_Station   (1243 words)

Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth 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. Battersea "B" station began operating in 1953 and had the highest thermal efficiency of all power stations and provided one fifth of Londons total electricity supplies, (28 other stations generated the rest). 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. www.mywandsworth.co.uk /wandsworth/community-batterseapowerstation.htm   (1008 words)

Battersea Park railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is by Battersea Park itself, and is not far from Battersea Power Station. Battersea Park is a suburban railway station in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Queenstown Road (Battersea) station is within walking distance and provides access to South West Trains services. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station   (262 words)

Battersea Power Station In the war-time London blitz, Battersea power station was luckier than some of its neighbours; but it didn't escape damage, and at times operations were only kept going by ingenuity and determination. For fifty years, Battersea Power Station has been a landmark known to Londoners, commuters and visitors from all over the world. The station was to be built in two halves, with the first generating sets coming into operation in the early 1930s. www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /BatterseaPowerStation.html   (1397 words)

Londonist: Inside Battersea Power Station Certainly, Battersea Power station was just rotting away as it was, and terrible damage was being done to its structure. Battersea should not be treated like Bluewater Shopping Centre; it should be treated like Fountains and Rievaulx, and glorious relic of a bygone age. The pictures include the station's Art Deco entrance hall, its futuristic (for the 1950s) control rooms, its towering spaces, and the eerie Marie Celeste feel of some of its undisturbed rooms. www.londonist.com /archives/2005/07/inside_batterse.php   (417 words)

Battersea Power Station - Hotel Designs Industry News Waste heat from the power station was used by architect Powell and Moya to provide one of the earliest district heating systems for the housing on the opposite bank, built as part of the continuing London regeneration in the 1950’s. Battersea Park Station is a key component of the transport plans as it offers a link to Victoria terminus (a five minute journey) and a frequency that rivals the tube. During WW2 the power station was a clear landmark for the bombers of the Luftwaffe during their raids on London. www.hoteldesigns.co.uk /industrynews/news_40.html   (670 words)

Risky Buildings Battersea Power Station is, however, a concern for The Twentieth Century Society, because a pattern of delayed maintenance work has developed, which, if it continues, could cause permanent damage to the building fabric. Battersea Power Station is owned by Parkview International; a development company that recognises that the significant amount of elapsed time since maintenance work has been done, has compromised the building. Firm proposals exist for the disused power station’s future that involve substantial investment in both maintaining the existing building fabric, as well as investing in converting the building into an inhabitable centrepiece of an ambitious redevelopment of the whole of the former power station’s thirty-eight hectare site. www.riskybuildings.org.uk /docs/13battersea   (365 words)

Battersea Battersea Power Station Community Group was formed in November 1983 to provide a forum for the local community to air its views during the competition to find a future use for the Power Station and it's site. Battersea Power Station was designed in 1930 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and J. Theo Halliday. By 1955 the third and fourth chimneys (Battersea B) were completed making the Power Station the largest brick building in Europe. support.uni-oldenburg.de /~floyd/english/appendix/batters.html   (267 words)

Guardian Battersea power station Battersea power station, with its four distinctive towers (added in 1953), Art Deco control room, Italian marble turbine hall, polished parquet floors and wrought iron staircases, is the largest brick building in Europe. Ironically, Battersea power station was the first choice of venue for the new Tate Modern. 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. www.politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4058200-103700,00.html   (450 words)

Sketches Battersea power station V This is a sketch in pencil of the Battersea Power station in London. www.raboo.info /pages/battersea-5.htm   (24 words)

Battersea Power Station P Battersea Power Station ceased all production of electricity in 1983, with the closure of the "B" Station, but the structure has been classified as a grade II listed building and cannot be demolished. Battersea Power Station was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who was also the architect of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Bankside Power Station and the famous GPO "K6" Telephone Box) and opened in 1937. The Power Station is built around a steel girder frame and Sir Giles designed the exterior brick cladding and the tower-like bases of the four chimneys. www.southchelsea.freeserve.co.uk /page5.html   (592 words)

London - Battersea Power Station (Dec. 10, 1997) Battersea is quite a rough area of London, so pre-gig drinks were contemplated with slight caution. And as I left Battersea, I looked down at my watch and realized just how short of a set it was but also realized, it didn't matter, it was amazing. I had planned to walk there from my place in Westbourne Park (Notting Hill area), but because I first had to go to Euston Station to get a ticket to Chester for tomorrow's show, I ended up taking the tube to Sloane Square and walking from there. www.morrissey-solo.com /tour/1997/battersea.html   (2043 words)

The Thames Path - The London Eye to Putney Battersea park is a large and attractive park, which includes a lake, sports facilities and even a children's zoo. From this station there are frequent trains (operated by South West Trains) to Wandsworth Town, Clapham Junction (for South Central Trains), Queenstown Road, Vauxhall (for the Victoria Line) and London Waterloo (for Eurostar and the Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo and City Lines.). The nearest station to the London Eye is Waterloo, which is served by South West Trains services from South and South West London, Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorset and Devon. www.thames-path.org.uk /thames_eye_putney.html   (2180 words)

Battersea Power Station I was an organiser of the Battersea Power Station Forum, a Saturday conference which BPSCG held in February 1995 as a way of stimulating new discussion about the future of the building. On completion of the dissertation in 1993, I became a member of Battersea Power Station Community Group, established in 1983, which campaigns to see that the building is preserved. I wrote a dissertation about the recent history of Battersea Power Station 1993 as part of my MA at the University of York. www.keithgarner.com /projects/battersea.html   (165 words)

BBC NEWS UK Battersea leisure plans steam ahead The smokeless power station was also used in 1999 to encourage smokers to follow its lead by the Nicorette anti-smoking campaign. When the third and fourth chimneys were completed in 1955 the power station was the largest brick building in Europe. The building was co-designed in 1930 by architect Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Bankside Power Station which re-opened as the Tate Modern in May. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/905738.stm   (437 words)

BBC NEWS UK Battersea's powerful story Battersea Power Station has suffered at the hands of vandals and the weather as development plans have come and gone since it ceased generating electricity in 1983. The power station was actually two generating units - Battersea A and Battersea B - side-by-side. Millionaire John Broome of Battersea Leisure, with Alton Towers Ltd, soon took over the project and building work started four years later with the demolition of the roof and west wall to remove the giant turbines. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk/906135.stm   (450 words)

BBC NEWS England London Fears over power station chimneys Battersea Power Station's chimneys may have to be completely rebuilt after a report revealed steel reinforcements used to build them are corroding. Chair of the Battersea Power Station Community Group Brian Barnes said: "Battersea Power Station is nothing without those chimneys, that's what makes it a landmark, there will be nothing to it after that. Battersea revived by the circus (12 Dec 00 212.58.226.55 /1/low/england/london/4689219.stm   (403 words)

Towards Battersea Power Station from Battersea Bridge In January 2006 a 18 foot northern bottle nosed whale swam up the Thames as far as Battersea and sparked a rescue effort on the 21 st of January by volunteer teams of marine life rescue divers , fire brigade and police, under blanket TV coverage. www.fellwalk.co.uk /thame345cx.htm   (148 words)

Battersea Power Station refurbishment begins Jan. 2005 - @forums Battersea Power Station refurbishment begins Jan. 2005 - @forums Fifteen years after the last attempt folded, and twenty-five years after the power station ceased operation, someone is finally going to do something with the site of one of Britain's finest bits of industrial architecture, which has previously been criminally left to rot. Was the Tori video shot in Battersea or Tate Modern (before it was Tate Modern, obviously). www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=223880   (362 words)

World Monuments Watch 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. The building& 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). www.wmf.org /html/programs/unkbat.html   (245 words)

euboia Battersea Power Station, as seen from the north bank of the River Thames Battersea Power Station, as seen from the north bank of the River Thames www.euboia.org /images/Battersea_Power_Station.html   (26 words)

The Powerstation Battersea Power Station's historic chimneys are to be knocked down and rebuilt, at a cost of about £10m, after a report found they were corroding. Battersea power station will be floodlit tonight with the 2012 Olympic bid logo to signify south London's support. A steel tower rising 164ft off the ground has been erected by Battersea Power Station as a des res for a pair of rare peregrine falcons. www.thepowerstation.co.uk   (607 words)

Cities of Science - London - A temple of power The power station supplied London with electricity from 1937 to 1980 but is now derelict. There are ambitious plans to redevelop the whole power station site but it is taking a long time to make them a realitly Station B with its second turbine hall and two chimneys was added in 1953. www.citiesofscience.co.uk /go/London/ContentPlace_3130.html   (306 words)

Guardian Unlimited Arts news The plan to bring Battersea power station back to life Battersea, however, although shabbily treated over the past 20 years, is well connected by railway, bus, river and even by air - for the bespoke-heeled, it has its own heliport - although the power station will need to be connected to these more gracefully than it is today. Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, architect of the Eden Centre in Cornwall, is in charge of remodelling the power station as an arts and exhibition venue, with a stunning, sci-fi hotel on the rooftop by Ron Arad, a highly inventive designer. The site remains as glum today as it has been for decades; and the power station, looking like a great upturned table on the Thames skyline, has been closed for pretty much as long as it was open. www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1525611,00.html?gusrc=rss   (964 words)

Battersea Power Station DVD The Battersea Power Station DVD is their first foray into a present day construction - other titles on their site include ancients cities and civilisations. Eclipse Films have put together "Battersea: Its past, Its Future" looking at the history of the landmark, with a focus on what might be happening to the edifice with the ownership of the development going to the Parkview Company. With the use of vintage stills, alongside present day footage shot inside and outside the building, it is an interesting portrait of a very much utilitarian construction that has fascinated people over the decades. www.brain-damage.co.uk /news/0509042.html   (315 words)

Battersea Power Station The Battersea power station is a steel skeleton construction with a brick layer. Since 1983 the unused Battersea Power Station is protected as landmark and architectural monument. The binding of the area at the Southwalk as well as a new station for the customers and visitors bind the public into the activities of the enterprise. www.albrecht-meyer.de /english/projects/bps/bps.htm   (224 words)

3D max battersea power station KEYWORDS: architecture london landmark city building monument battersea power station art deco giles gilbert scott fortress castle industrial turbine hall facto The Power Station was eventually decommissioned in 1983, and has laid a derelict shell since, during which it has gained much public affection, and a grade 2 listing. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for Bankside Power Station (now Tate Modern), the Houses of Commons, and the Albert Memorial (All available from the London Landmarks Collection, a set of 33 of London’s most famous buildings and monuments, available as a set, or separately from Turbo Squid.). www.gamasutraexchange.com /FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/190354   (303 words)

sassyfrass took the millenium ferry over to the tate modern, which is a fantastic building: also an old power station, designed by the same person who did the battersea power station and the classic british red telephone booth! highlights: lloyd's of london building at night and the battersea power station. www.sassyass.net /beta   (1981 words)

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