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Apr 8, 2019 · 34 BEA, ‘Bankside Gas Washing Plant Cost’, 14 January 1953, MOSI, A1989.338/17/2. Civil works for the flue-gas plant were estimated at £290,000, the associated plant £84,000 and the electrical plant £17,000 a total of £391,000 for the first half of the station, the estimate for the complete station was £430,000 against the original estimate of £550,000 shown in Table 2.
Apr 27, 2000 · Yet the finished product reflects an admirably fine balance between respect for what existed and the need to innovate, transform and adapt it to new use. As Gugger (who has worked on the project with Herzog & de Meuron founding partner Jacques Herzog from the beginning) points out, Bankside Power Station was always something out of the ordinary.
The power station’s intended location, on the south bank of the Thames in Southwark, was directly opposite from St. Paul’s Cathedral. Before Bankside’s construction, it had been the site of another, older, power station that had become too small to meet London’s electricity demands. Due to the great deal of controversy surrounding the ...
The power station, later known as Bankside A, was extended several times as the demand for electricity grew. An engine room, 230 ft (70 m) long and 50 ft (15 m) wide, was built in 1893 with two 200 kW, two 350 kW and two 400 kW alternators driven by Willans engines. The associated boiler house was the same length and had nine Babcock and Wilcox ...
The power station was one of several built in the twentieth century on the banks of the River Thames in London to use coal from north-east England that was delivered by ship. It was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in stages from 1947. After the station closed in 1982, the five-storey turbine hall, 156 m long and 35 m high, was ...
Each building has undergone a unique transformation in the 20th century: Bankside Power Station is now known as the Tate Modern museum and is considered a testament to modern adaptive reuse, while Battersea Power Station has proved to be more difficult to redevelop, now undergoing commercial redevelopment.
Bankside Power Station had strong opposition at the time of its construction. The stack height was limited to 99m to prevent it was higher than St Paul´s Cathedral Tower. Its construction was carried out in two stages, the west side was the first to be built to produce energy beginning in late 1952, but the building was not completed until 1963.
