Battersea
Apple Music reminded me of the day in April 2025 when we roamed the Battersea complex.
Last week, news broke that Apple is about to open a music hall in the Battersea complex in London. The place is quite iconic among music lovers: it is featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album. The album is from 1977, shortly after it ceased to operate as a thermoelectric power station. Thanks to its central location and Pink Floyd, Battersea is probably the most memorable industrial building in the world.
The complex is still called Battersea Power Station, but it was recently repurposed as a shopping centre and office complex, with housing units in the neighborhood. It reopened almost exactly four years ago, in October 2022. The reimagined interior tastefully preserves the original Art Deco designs (the power station was built between 1929 and 1955), some of the industrial artifacts, but adds new decorative elements as well.
There is a café inside that is called Control Room B... because it used to be Control Room B for the power station. If you walk into the back of the café, you can see the original instrument panels and machinery that belonged to the actual control room. Unfortunately, I haven't taken good enough photos of that part. I took my photos not as a project, we were simply tourists in London.
The egg outside the power station is there because we visited directly before Easter. But the egg itself might be permanent, I haven't checked.
The photos were taken on a Canon EOS 2000D, and that limits what we can capture in low light (I had no flash with me, nor would I have been allowed to use it in there). Enjoy the images below.
