Battersea Power Station (London, UK) - Art Deco - Art Nouveau on Waymarking.com

The building of the former Battersea Power Station is not only London's landmark and iconic structure of industrial architecture but also beautiful example of the Art-Deco style...

Battersea Power Station and its chimneys are famous thanks to numerous cultural appearances (e.g. scenes in the Beatles' film Help!, cover of the Pink Floyd's album Animals...) but the whole architectural complex belongs among the most valuable and most stunning examples of the industrial architecture. Battersea Power Station, the largest brick building in Europe, is work of renowned architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the man who also designed power station later rebuilt in Tate Modern and also the red telephone boxes, was hired by the London Power Company to create this first of a new generation of "superstations", with the building beginning to produce power for the capital in 1933. With dimensions of 160 × 170 m, the roof of the boiler house 50 m tall, and its four 103 m tall chimneys, it is a truly massive structure. The building in fact comprised two stations – Battersea "A" and Battersea "B", which were conjoined when the identical B section was completed in the 1950s, and it was the world’s most thermally efficient building when it opened. Power station was operational until 1983.

Now, after 30 years of delapidation, this jewel of the Art-Deco & industrial architecture is under process of rebuilding into new residential, cultural and commercial center of the West London.