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I've always been fond of the Battersea electric power station in England.

>The station's design proved popular straightaway, and was described as a "temple of power", which ranked equal with St Paul's Cathedral as a London landmark. In a 1939 survey by The Architectural Review a panel of celebrities ranked it as their second favourite modern building.

The A Station's control room was given many Art Deco fittings by architect Halliday. Italian marble was used in the turbine hall, and polished parquet floors and wrought-iron staircases were used throughout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station

It's amazing that they went so far out of their way to make an industrial plant beautiful, inside and out.



This one looks very similar to the C&C red alert power plant [1]. I wonder if this not a coincidence.

[1] https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Power_plant_(Red_Alert_1)




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