Battersea Power Station's Malaysia SquareFor better or worse, London's Battersea Power Station is one of the most recognizable buildings in the city. The former coal-fired power plant sits on the bank of the River Thames and its fame is mostly due to its four iconic white chimney stacks, which once featured a pig floating between two of them on Pink Floyd's Animals album cover. Now, Danish architecture firm, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), have proposed turning these 100 meter tall Art Deco pillars into the world's tallest Tesla coils.
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After remaining derelict for years, the entire power station is being redeveloped and turned into luxury flats and a shopping precinct, and BIG are involved in designing a large public square, known as Malaysia Square, at the foot of the building. The Tesla coil chimney artwork would be used to generate energy from people walking through this square using a piezoelectric sidewalk.
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