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On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:04:39 +0000
Jim Chisholm wrote:
Smoke and mirrors in Osbourne's statement?

see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...ation-redevelo
ment-collapses?

"Battersea Power Station calls in administrators

How many times has this happened now since the place closed?

Why they couldn't have turned it into come sort of engineering museam
leaving part of the workings intact god alone knows. It would
certainly have been better than gutting it and allowing the weather
in to destroy the structure. I imagine part of it will simply
collapse one day and the whole thing will have to be demolished.

Even the possibly now aborted scheme required the chimneys to be
dismantled and rebuilt, as they're no longer structurally sound. And at
least one wall has long gone, so there won't be much that's authentic
if/when it ever gets re-used as a shell housing something entirely
unlike a power station. Given the lack of authenticity, I wonder why a
pastiche of the old power station needs to be part of any new
development? After all, we already have one old coal power station
preserved as an art gallery in the form of Tate Modern -- just how many
does London need?