IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Dezeen on the new glass lift viewpoint in Battersea Power Station’s chimney.
… occupies the power station’s north-west chimney…
Dezeen writes:
The Lift 109 viewpoint designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates has opened within the rebuilt chimney of Battersea Power Station in London, which was recently revamped by architecture studio WilkinsonEyre.
Named Lift 109, due to the fact the lift will take visitors 109 metres up in the air to give views across London and the power station, the attraction opened to the public last week.
‘There is nothing like it anywhere,’ said Ralph Appelbaum Associates director Phillip Tefft….
The attraction occupies the power station’s north-west chimney, which was entirely rebuilt as part of the rejuvenation of the Grade II*-listed building…
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