Battersea PowerStation is recognizable to most people from the UK, and it's part of the London skyline. Over the years there have been several plans to redevelop the site, but nothing has ever come of them and the building has decayed more and more, until now it's pretty much just a shell.
It was open to the public for an "exhibition of Chinese contemporary art, architecture and sound" - http://www.serpentinegallery.org/20...rt_i_8_o_1.html and I went there on November the 5th which was the last day. There were quite a lot of people there unfortunately so I didn't get to wander round on my own, but I did get to queue outside and watch the sunset. Here's my photos -
Approaching from the south side
It was getting dark by the time we arrived so it was looking like a good sunset
South side close up
Looking up the south east tower
Going down pretty fast
It's going to be dark by the time we get inside
NO URINATING There seemed to be quite a lot of rich people there, nobody else took a photo of the sign...
Looking through to the North east tower
Almost down
DANGER Almost at the front of the queue
It was pretty dark inside by now
The inside of the East wing was covered in these blue ceramic tiles, all the way to the ceiling (which is around as high as Sydney opera house) It was quite an impressive space but hard to take photos of.
There was a tank just inside, it had a limp barrel. I'm not sure what that meant.
We went upstairs inside the east wing, through some cool stairwells.
RUST
There wasn't much machinery left, this was pretty much all I saw. The TV's were part of the installation, there were some sofas watching the machinery too. There were also goats.
Up another floor
The whole wall was filled with apples, a lot of them were moldy. It smelt a lot of moldy apples in here.
These TV's had scary statue faces on, maybe they had something to do with it, they were watching the apple wall. I'm not very good at the art part of this exhibition.
Looking further North, it just keeps going
DANGER
Back down again through more cool stairwells.
This stairwell leads to -
This fire door
Which has nice steps.
Looking North again from the floor below
Looking across to the West side we could see this, not sure what that's all about...
