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> Battersea Power Station has today unveiled the first images of its newly restored Control Room A. Where are the images? All I can see (on mobile) is the one at the top of the article. Am I missing something? Have I forgotten how to use the Internet?
> Battersea Power Station has today unveiled the first images of its newly restored Control Room A. Where are the images? All I can see (on mobile) is the one at the top of the article. Am I missing something? Have I forgotten how to use the Internet?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what happens when real estate developers and commercial landlord equity firms capture the interest and begin directing the activity of your local politicians. The almost inevitable result is bougie commercialization of something into a bland market palatable shopping district. Look at the parts of NYC that are being gentrified for similar examples.
East New York is the new LES!
> Battersea Power Station has today unveiled the first images of its newly restored Control Room A. Where are the images? All I can see (on mobile) is the one at the top of the article. Am I missing something? Have I forgotten how to use the Internet?
For non UK readers, Battersea Power Station is the building on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEFgX-uFZc
The floating pig makes a couple of appearances.
"Art Deco style was of the moment with Control Room A boasting teak parquet flooring laid in a herringbone pattern and walls tiled in grey Italian marble offset by black Belgian marble detailing through the room, matched by a gold painted coffered glass ceiling." this was a power station what happened
There is a (IMO quite funny) conspiracy theory that there was a massive disaster at a leading architecture and design conference some time in the 1930s, such that almost everyone who knew how to make beautiful things died, and nowadays we actually can't design and build beautiful buildings anymore, it's all ugly modernist stuff.
Imagine a modern power plant control room with a look somewhere between an Apple store and the Parks' home in Parasite. This is what they took from you!
For non UK readers, Battersea Power Station is the building on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals
Do they use some notation I'm unfamiliar with, or are they some 'artists impression' by a non-technical artist?
If the latter, I'm really disappointed. 80 year old steam systems and generators are understandable by anyone doing high school physics, and we really shouldn't be making museum pieces that have made-up nonsense to try and make things impossible to understand.
For non UK readers, Battersea Power Station is the building on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals
The circuit diagrams above the control panels appear to be nonsensical... Do they use some notation I'm unfamiliar with, or are they some 'artists impression' by a non-technical artist? If the latter, I'm really disappointed. 80 year old steam systems and generators are understandable by anyone doing high school physics, and we really shouldn't be making museum pieces that have made-up nonsense to try and make things…
Would love to get a technical tour, though.