Battersea Power Station: Interactive image provides chimney preview
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An interactive "bubble image" allowing people to see what London looks like from the top of Battersea Power Station, has been released.
The immersive experience, external gives users a preview of the building's chimney lift.
The glass lift is situated inside the structure's north west chimney and will take people up 358 ft (109m) when it opens as a viewing platform next year.
The Battersea Power Station Development Company said it will "be an experience like no other".
Having remained empty for decades, Battersea Power Station has been undergoing a £9bn regeneration project.
The Grade II* listed building, on the south bank of the River Thames, will contain apartments, shops, restaurants and other leisure facilities.
Technology giant Apple is also basing its new London campus across six floors of the structure.
The chimney lift will be run by events firm IMG and is part of a visitor experience looking at the iconic power station's history.
The first apartment residents will move into the building this year but it will not fully open to the public until 2022.
Sam Cotton, head of leasing at Battersea Power Station Development Company, said they were "creating a new destination in London".
The history of an iconic structure
Work began on the site in 1929. Initially it was proposed that the chimneys would be square not circular
The first stage of the station was completed in 1935. At the time the building only had two chimneys
The second phase was completed in 1955. When it was finished, the space inside the main boiler house was so vast it would have been possible to fit St Paul's Cathedral inside
An electrical failure at the station on 20 April 1964 caused power cuts across London including at BBC Television Centre, delaying the launch of BBC Two which had been due to go to air that night
In 1977 the structure featured on the front cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals. A giant inflatable pig was tethered between two of the chimneys, but it broke free closing the airspace to Heathrow Airport and leading to RAF jets being dispatched
Battersea Power Station was decommissioned and finally stopped generating electricity in 1983
The building was purchased by different developers in subsequent decades but lay empty until being taken over by current shareholders SP Setia, Sime Darby Property and the Employers Provident Fund
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