Pink Floyd fans know it best as that dark, hulking presence underneath the floating pig on the cover of the 1977 “Animals” album.
Londoners have come to know it as an eyesore — albeit, an historic one.
But the Battersea Power Station, out of commission since 1983, might be another step closer to a new life as a center for housing, office and retail space.
A whopping $8.2 billion redevelopment plan set forth by architect Rafael Vinoly has received approval by London mayor Boris Johnson, and the U.K.’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The proposal is now being reviewed by the city’s planning department.
If it goes forward, the plan would include 3,700 homes, 1.6 million square feet of office space, 500,000 square feet of retail space, and an environmentally-friendly carbon-free power plant built underground.
Battersea has to be one of the only decommissioned power plants in the world with its own Web site and newsletter.
These architectural renderings come from the Rafael Vinoly Architects PC Web site.
