πβ¨ From Hiding to Civic Presence: How Wastewater Plants Entered the City
π Why this is awesome: When London's main drainage was completed north of the Thames in 1868, the Metropolitan Board of Works marked the occasion with a banquet held inside a sewage pumping station.
Abbey Mills had been built over the previous three years by the engineer Joseph Bazalgette, working with the architect Charles Driver, laid out on a cruciform plan with eight beam engines, two on each arm. ππ±
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Source: ArchDaily Green Architecture