Sunday 14 October 2012

Pink Floyd and Battersea Power Station

The Animals by Pink Floyd album is one of the main reasons for the worldwide fame of Battersea Power Station.

Photographs for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album were taken in early December 1976. For the photo shoot, an inflatable pink pig, made by the Zeppelin company, was tethered to one of the southern chimneys. However the pig broke free of its moorings and rose into the flight path of London Heathrow Airport to the astonishment of pilots in approaching planes. The runaway pig was tracked by police helicopters before coming to ground in Kent. Whether the pig escaped, or was released on purpose to increase publicity, is not known. Animals was officially launched at an event at Battersea Power Station in January 1977.
What ever we do as part of our masterplan, the solution has to maintain the icon status of the power station.
There is a mystique that perhaps has been amplified by the lack of access over the past 25 years... How can this be reflected in the design solution?

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