The Battersea Power Station in central London opens its doors to the public after ten years
London – With fireworks and confetti, the renovated former Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the Thames in London was ceremoniously opened on Friday. The ten-year project costing nine billion pounds (about 254 billion crowns) has revived one of the largest brick buildings in Europe, British media report.
"When we first came to London, plans were being made to restore this power station, but that was thirty years ago and nothing came of it. I always walked around this amazing building. (Today) I really wanted to come," said Emma Liberman, one of the first visitors to the renovated power station, to The Guardian.
The building, immortalized for example on the cover of Pink Floyd's tenth studio album Animals (1977) or in the film The King's Speech (2010), today opened with 254 apartments, restaurants, bars, office spaces, and an elevator that takes visitors to the top of the north-west chimney.
Battersea Power Station was closed in 1975. Before that, it had produced electricity from coal for nearly half a century for up to one-fifth of London, including Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament.
The power station building is the centerpiece of an area covering nearly 170,000 m², which was purchased in 2012 by a Malaysian consortium led by SP Setia and Sime Darby Property for 400 million pounds (about 11.3 billion crowns).
Once the renovation of the entire area is fully completed, it will feature up to 4,000 apartments designed by American architect Frank Gehry. The renovation of the entire area has eight phases, with 1,600 completed apartments so far, reports The Guardian.
> https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
"When we first came to London, plans were being made to restore this power station, but that was thirty years ago and nothing came of it. I always walked around this amazing building. (Today) I really wanted to come," said Emma Liberman, one of the first visitors to the renovated power station, to The Guardian.
The building, immortalized for example on the cover of Pink Floyd's tenth studio album Animals (1977) or in the film The King's Speech (2010), today opened with 254 apartments, restaurants, bars, office spaces, and an elevator that takes visitors to the top of the north-west chimney.
Battersea Power Station was closed in 1975. Before that, it had produced electricity from coal for nearly half a century for up to one-fifth of London, including Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament.
The power station building is the centerpiece of an area covering nearly 170,000 m², which was purchased in 2012 by a Malaysian consortium led by SP Setia and Sime Darby Property for 400 million pounds (about 11.3 billion crowns).
Once the renovation of the entire area is fully completed, it will feature up to 4,000 apartments designed by American architect Frank Gehry. The renovation of the entire area has eight phases, with 1,600 completed apartments so far, reports The Guardian.
> https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
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