BATTERSEA POWER STATION

BATTERSEA POWER STATION
UPDATE
1995.9-1996.2-1998.3

A ruin of huge building by the Themes river.

Please know me(this web page) any informations of this old power station or anythingelse.

Informations of Battersea Power Station
There are a lot of informations from kindly people by e-mail.
These informations were abbreviated and itemized for easy reading on web page but every message by e-mail to me are inclued more informations in detail and some humor.
Thanks to who gives me good informations.

Now this power station is not operated.

--1995.9--　T.Suganuma

At the gallary of RIBA. There was the exibit of renewal plan for this old power staion.

--1995.9--　T.Suganuma

Exibit in the Gallary of RIBA.

This building called "Battersea Power Station".

--1995.11--　Mr.Malcom Dunn

Constructed between 1929 to 1955.

--1995.11--　Mr.Malcom Dunn

ago,it was being restoredas some kind of theme park or recreation centre, but the developer ran out of money.

--1995.11--　Mr.Malcom Dunn

There are several other power stations in Londonwhich are similar to this one.

--1995.11--　Mr.Malcom Dunn

There are some books for reference.

"A Guide to the Architecture of London"by Edward Jones & Christopher Woodward,1983.
"The London Encyclopaedia"

--1995.11--　Mr.Malcom Dunn

There are some webpages for reference.

--1996.5--　Mr.Lee Dedmon

The power station was used on the cover of the British rock band Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

http://webcom.net/~graham/floyd/floydpix.html

--1996.5--　Mr.Lee Dedmon

The Book"Techno Scape - Technology and Design of Infrastructure"(Atsushi Kataki,1995)introduce the Battersea power station.

--1996.5--　Mr.DT

The power station was used on the cover of the British rock band Pink Floyd's album "Animals."(1977)

--1996.7--　Mr.Naomi Ando

Appeared in some album jackets.

"Animals" Pink Floyd
"Quadrophenia" The Who
Chage and Asuka
the Oab

--1996.8--　Mr.Makise

The power station was used on the cover of the British rock band Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

--1996.8--　Mr.Mikkel Andersson

There is an article in magazine called "Sekou"(Japanese)1995.2 issue.

--1996.12--　Mr.Nobuaki Nakazima

The power station was used on the cover of the British rock band Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

--1996.12--　Mr.Keiichiro Tokuda

There is an article in book named "London Couchu-Sampo""(Japanese) Published by Asahi News Paper.

--1997.3--　Mr.Touru Ishii

The power station appears as a symbol in several pictures on several british rock group.

PinkFloyd's "Animal" LP (there's a pig flying around the chimneys)
the internal booklet of The Who's "Quadrophenia" (the original one, not thesoundtrack)
Jam's video "News Of The World" that was recorded on its roof on a windy day.

--1997.4--　Mr.MAURIZIO PACI

The Web Page Created by Mr. Joakim Nordlander.

http://www.itv.se/~jonord

--1997.5--　Mr.Joakim Nordlander

Appears on CD jacket of "the ORB"

--1997.5--　Mr. Takayuki Hirata

There is a Building similler to This in Manila, Phillipin.

--1997.5--　Mr. Takayuki Hirata

They are turning it into a 35 million pound cinema (and that's just tickets... no not realy that's how much it costs to build it) With 32 screens etc. etc.

--1997.6--　Mr.Matthew Woodget

There is now a new proposal to develop the old power station as a huge leisure and retail complex, including a 32 screen cinema from Warner Bros. If work actually starts on the site this summer, maybe this time all will go well. Expect to wait two or three years before it's ready though.

--1997.6--　Mr.Humphrey Waterhouse

There is an article in the 10.1992 issue of "Taiyou"(Japanese Magazine)

--1997.7--　Mr.nobuhiko baba

Some informations in the book written by Mr. Atsushi Kataki, pubulished by Kashima Pablishing.

--1997.7--　Mr.nobuhiko baba

The power station was used on the cover of the British rock band Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

--1997.7--　Mr.ilgaz kuruyazici

The movie film called "Richard 3" at the cinema. The final scene was in the Battersea Power Station.

--1997.7--　Mr.ilgaz kuruyazici

A book called "London Minimum". There was a photo of this building inside the book.

--1997.7--　Mr.ilgaz kuruyazici

The power station was used on the cover of Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

--1997.7--　Mr.iEishi Yukita

The power station was used on the cover of Pink Floyd's album "Animals."

--1997.8--　Mr.John Costa

There are some brutal power stations in London. One is Called "Chersie Monster" another one in the oppsite bank of Saint-James. and more, in Greenwich that is in opreateing.

--1997.12--　Mr.Masaaki OKADA

appears on the music video of SMAP(Japanese group).

　T.Suganuma

Some information in the book. "The Built, The Unbuilt and The Unbuildable"by Mr.Robert Harbison.
　T.Suganuma

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