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The Turbine Hall. After sharing the Millbank site with Tate Britain for many decades, since 2000 Tate Modern has occupied the converted former Bankside Power Station.This was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms, Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce , Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers.
Bankside B was designed to be coal-fired but, following a coal and power shortage in early 1947, was redesigned to be oil-fired (the first such power station in Britain). [1] Bunker 'C' oil was delivered by barge from the Shell Haven refinery on the Thames estuary to three large underground tanks to the south of the building.
STORY: London's iconic Battersea Power Station marked the opening of an ice rink following its $10.2 billion redevelopment and grand re-openingThe ice rink named ‘Glide’ is composed of three ...
Bankside Power Station: London 1947, constructed 1947–63 converted to Tate Modern art gallery by Herzog & de Meuron 1995–2000 Extension to St Anne's College: Oxford 1949–51 Rye House Power Station: Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire c. 1952: demolished early 1990s St Leonard's Church: St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex 1953–61 with his brother Adrian
Bankside Power Station (Tate Modern) Banqueting House at Whitehall; Barbados High Commission in London; Barbican Centre; Barbican Estate; Barking Abbey; Barking Park; Barnes Railway Bridge; Barnet Gate Mill; Battersea Bridge; Battersea Park; Battersea Power Station; Battersea Railway Bridge; Bedford Park; Bedford Square; Belgrave Square ...
Oxo Tower Wharf is in the east of London's South Bank cultural area in the London Borough of Southwark.A continuous riverside walkway passes in front of the building, and links it with other riverside attractions such as the Royal Festival Hall, the National Theatre, the Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe.
The station, partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, [6] serves the redevelopment site and Battersea itself. The station is located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and within walking distance from Queenstown Road railway station , forming an out-of-station interchange with both.