Battersea Power Station
This weekend we took advantage of getting close this iconic London building, while it is still open to the public before its major reconstruction.
Who would think that power station could be that beautiful? Built in 1939, it is maaaaassive, reminds me of a huge ship (Titanic? ;), and it’s Art Deco all around (my favorite :).
It’s been out of use for decades and it is such a shame to see its decadence. Well at least it will not demolished, but will become a part of a new to-be-fantastic development. But for now what you see is an abandoned monster. Beautiful monster.
The next picture was taken on a completely different occasion, but I thought I would add it.
Posted on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 at 11:22 pm under General / Creative.
Whoa, I’ve accidentally run into you blog, and suddenly I know the location, where the picture that has been haunting me since my early childhood was shot :). It is used as a cover to Pink Floyd’s “Animals” - a vinyl my dad had and I used to play with. Here it is:
http://www.album-art.net/art/albums/p/pink_floyd/animals.jpg
So, kinda thanks. Good luck and have fun shooting and writing stuff :).
Hey Henenu, thanks for kind words.
And yes, I recently found out with the help of internet (of course ;), that this power station was actually made famous by that Pink Floyd’ vinyl cover :)
And now there are fews scenes of Rocknrolla that were shot in that location, and also there is a footage of … spider pig flying over the station (just google for ’spider pig battersea’ as that movie clip seems to be removed from youtube.