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Bankside Power Station
Bankside Power Station is a former oil-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames, in the Bankside district of London. It generated electricity from 1952 to 1981. Since 2000 the station's building has been used to house the Tate Modern art museum.
==History==
There had been a coal-fired power station on the site since 1891.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The rise, fall and transformation of Bankside power station, 1890-2010 )〕 It was extended several times, but eventually was considered old and polluting.
The new power station was commissioned following a power shortage in 1947. The building was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the designer of Liverpool Cathedral, many of the K-series Red telephone boxes, and an important consultant credited with designing the Art-deco exterior of the more well-known Battersea power station. Bankside is a long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney which stands at . The chimney's height was limited to less than that of St Paul's Cathedral, which stands directly opposite inward from the north bank of the Thames. Despite strong local opposition, Scott's design was completed and accepted within a year.
Construction work was conducted in two phases, and was not entirely complete until 1963. The western portion of the building was completed first and started generating power in 1952. The final structure roughly divided the building into three - the huge main turbine hall in the centre, with the smaller boiler room to one side and the switching room to the other. Rising oil prices made the station uneconomic, resulting in its closure in 1981.
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