The Building Pictured on Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ Album to Undergo Massive Change

The building that's pictured on Pink Floyd's iconic 'Animals' album will soon be transformed.

As reported by newsweek.com:

Battersea Power Station, the iconic building on the River Thames featured on Pink Floyd’s 1977 Animals album cover, will be reconstructed later this year and transformed into luxury villas with a roof garden.

It was built in the 1930s in South West London, a power station that has been a pop culture fixture for nearly 50 years.

It shut down in 1983 and is no longer functional as a power plant.

The exterior has been featured in many films, including the Beatles’ 1965 film 'Help!', Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Children of Men' and, recently, Christopher Nolan’s first Batman flick, 'The Dark Knight'.

The interesting twist on the transformation is that the building’s smokestack chimneys (now structurally damaged and decayed by decades of coal fumes) will be torn down and “painstakingly reconstructed” down to the original paint hue, and two of the chimneys will be turned into a “modern energy center” that will generate power throughout the building.