The decaying chimneys atop London’s iconic Battersea Power Station, recognizable from the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals (1977) will be “painstakingly” reconstructed to precisely match the originals as the building is turned into shops, offices, and, yep, luxury condos.
“The chimneys are the most powerful part of the icon,” says Jim Eyre, director of Wilkinson Eyre, the architects commissioned to develop the building…”
Eyre’s plans for the chimneys are emblematic of his approach towards developing the site.
“Two of them are still going to be used as flues for the massive, modern energy center that we’re going to construct to power the place,” he says.
“The third will remain hollow with a glass roof, and the fourth will house a cylindrical glass elevator that will pop out at the top at a viewing platform.”
