Much like the iconic Battersea, The Powerhouse also finds it identity in its previous life as a power station that kept London’s underground running.
Europe had never before seen a power station like the one in London’s Lots Road. Dubbed the Chelsea Monster, it was a giant of a steel-frame building, made with almost 6,000 tons of steel, its four chimneys towering 275ft above the Thames and the tidal Chelsea Creek. A brilliant expanse of red brick, broken up by vast…
