Arriving at the site late one night, things were looking promising… Fast-forward half an hour and my face is pressed up to the glass of the turbine hall windows. A large smile is creeping across my face as I make out the silhouette of a massive turbine…
Walking into the turbine hall your confronted with the first of three 1930′s vintage gas turbines, sitting the way they were 30 years ago when the station was closed. The turbine hall is over 100m long, whoever designed this place had some class.
Most of the station is striped bare – the boiler hall is nothing but 6 stories of open space with gaping holes in the floor. But someone had the vision to see the beauty of the turbine hall and saved it from fate of the rest of the plant.
With a fantastic view over Paris, the rooftop (complete with garden) is a great place to chill out. I had the opportunity to explore this station quite a few times over a two month period after the first visit, it felt a bit like home. But an unwelcome visit by a group of copper strippers late one night was the beginning of the end for this fantastic location.
Within a month the place was trashed, somehow the word had got out and the had graffers moved in. Windows were smashed and the turbines, which has stood untouched for almost 30 years were covered in graff.
R.I.P.
Marshall.
Tags: Abandoned, Paris, Power Station
this is good am sure despite the turbines big big and consuming a lot of space am sure one day someone out there wl design something small if nt portable am a student on atachment at a power station in zimbabwe doing a B Tech honours degree in fuels and energy engineering and am sure one day wl be part of yo team guys
You need to come to San Francisco. So much fun to be had.
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