Londons Battersea Power Station has appeared on the cover of a Pink Floyd album, stood in for a burned-out Gotham City warehouse in The Dark Knight, and at one point was considered as a new home for English Premier League soccer team Chelsea. A decommissioned coal-fired power station, the Battersea plant was built in two stages: construction began on its first substation in 1929, before another substation was added in the 1950s. The architects had to preserve the power station in their designs