Abbey Mills Pumping Station
London GB
Allies & Morrison
1997
Type
Urban Infrastructures
Tags
urban infrastructures
Visitability
Allowed
Description
The building forms the enclosure to a new £ 25 million sewage pumping station on a site at Abbey Mills in the Lea Valley. Its site is adjacent to a Grade II listed Victorian pumping station. A single space, 56 metres long and 29 metres high, it provides complete access to all the pumping chambers which lie twenty metres below ground, and houses diesel generators, electrical switch gear and a computer control room. Clad in aluminium louvres and panelling, the building stands temple-like within its open, semi-industrial landscape setting.(Description provided by the architects)