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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:36
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^ All these years i have been under a misapprehension! How could get it so wrong?
 
 
You're not the only one Snow Dog - it seems to be a pretty common misconception. Given that most people know that the Tate Modern is built in an old power station in South London, and Battersea Power Station is a famous South London landmark, it's a logical enough assumption. Some Japanese tourists I met a few months back were actually quite disappointed that the Tate Modern looked nothing like the cover of Animals.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:19
^ All these years i have been under a misapprehension! How could get it so wrong?
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:05
Battersea Power station also crops up on some of The Orb's album covers, including their excellent debut Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and Live 93. This is partly because Orb mainman Alex Patterson is a lifelong resident of South London and is also a kind of hommage to Pink Floyd.
 
The Tate Modern is housed in and old power station, but not Battersea power station, which is a couple of miles away and is still disused.
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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 21:31

here is the Tate Modern:

 
and now is the battersea:
 
man! you are lucky to have tons of captivating & symbolic buildings like that!
 
in Quebec city, we have a mere replica, much less impressive: the Reed Paper building:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 18:52
Surely Battersea Power Station is the Tate Modern?
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 18:16
Another ex south bank power station is much  more in the news nowadays, i.e. as The Tate Modern. There have been so many suggestions for the redundant Battersea Power Station in the last 20 years; I think the last was as an amusement park....
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Points: 20032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 15:50
I can't see any of those pictures Andrew.
Yes, it is an iconic building and a major part of the South London landscape, although it's not a power station now.
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Points: 3064 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 15:20
This power plant is really famous...
 
This is the cover of the album "Our World" of  BLUE MINK, published in 1971, where we can glimpse the Battersea Power Station. 
 
Our World -- album cover
 
this is the same location (Battersea Power Station, London) of famous Pink Floyd's Animals album
 
PINK FLOYD: "Animals" (1977)
 
 
Animals -- album cover
 
 
 
And the hard-prog band JUNIOR'S EYES entitled their first and only album (released in 1969) "Battersea Power Station", dedicated to the most famous power plant of London, which fed the Trident Studios, where that album was recorded.
 

Junior's Eyes:

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station -- album cover

Battersea Power Station %28Expanded%29 -- album cover(expanded version)
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