Dynamo LED Displays installed four LED video walls at the entrance to Lift 109, the chimney lift attraction at Battersea Power Station, London. Three use DVX panels at 3.9mm pixel pitch, including a 3.5 m by 6 m portrait billboard; the fourth is a 35mm LED mesh on an opening door that counts down to the next lift.
Updated October 2026. Case study first published January 2023.
Project facts
| Venue | Battersea Power Station, London SW11, a Grade II* listed former power station reopened as a shopping, leisure and workplace destination |
| Attraction | Lift 109, the glass lift that carries visitors to the top of one of the four chimneys |
| Screens | Four LED video walls at the attraction entrance |
| Screen 1 | 5 m x 1 m wall-mounted LED display showing lift times and ticket prices |
| Screen 2 | 3.5 m x 6 m portrait LED billboard |
| Screen 3 | 2.5 m x 3.5 m LED display housed in a custom metal fabrication |
| Screen 4 | 3.5 m x 2.24 m LED mesh fixed to two sections of an opening door behind glass, counting down to the next lift |
| Pixel pitch | 3.9mm (DVX series) for screens 1 to 3; 35mm LED mesh for the countdown door |
| Scope | Supply and installation of all four screens by Dynamo LED Displays |
Battersea Power Station and Lift 109
Battersea Power Station is a Grade II* listed building on the south bank of the Thames. It was decommissioned in 1983, bought by a consortium of Malaysian investors in 2012 and reopened to the public in October 2022 with shops, restaurants, offices and homes inside and around the old turbine halls.
Lift 109 is the visitor attraction inside the power station. Guests pass through an exhibition on the history of the building, then ride a glass lift up the inside of one of the chimneys to a viewing platform above the roofline. Dynamo LED Displays was asked to supply and install the LED video walls at the entrance, where visitors buy tickets, queue and wait for their lift slot.
The four LED video walls at the Lift 109 entrance
Ticketing and lift times on a 5 m x 1 m LED strip
Under the illuminated Lift 109 sign sits a 5 m wide, 1 m high LED display fixed flat to the wall. It carries ticket prices, the current time and the next departures, with the remaining width used for animated graphics drawn from the power station’s control-room dials. A wide, shallow LED strip does the job of a printed price board and a departure board in one surface, and the content changes from the control system rather than by reprinting.
A 3.5 m x 6 m portrait LED billboard
The largest of the four screens is a portrait LED billboard, 3.5 m wide and 6 m tall, set into a brick-faced recess beside the entrance. It runs full-height campaign content for the attraction and the wider estate, from archive footage of the chimneys to event promotion. At 3.9mm pitch the picture holds up both from the far side of the hall and from a few metres away in the queue.
A 2.5 m x 3.5 m screen in a custom metal fabrication
The third screen is a 2.5 m x 3.5 m LED display mounted in a free-standing metal housing made for the project. The housing stands on the exhibition floor next to the interactive control desk, so the screen is part of the exhibit rather than a panel on a wall. Free-standing housings like this are a practical way to add a large screen inside a listed interior, and they are typical of our custom LED display work.
The LED mesh countdown door
The fourth screen is the one visitors remember. A 3.5 m x 2.24 m LED mesh is fixed to two sections of an opening door and covered with glass. The mesh shows a circular countdown to the next lift departure; when the count reaches zero, the door opens and the next group walks through to the lift. Because the mesh is split across the two leaves, the picture parts with the door and closes up again behind the group.
Why 3.9mm DVX panels for the three main screens
Three of the four screens were built from our DVX series panels at 3.9mm pixel pitch. DVX is a cabinet system offered in indoor and outdoor versions, with front access for maintenance, which matters when a screen is set into a recess or housed in a fabrication and cannot be reached from behind.
The pitch was chosen for the viewing distances at the entrance. The billboard is read from across the hall, the ticketing strip from a few metres, and the free-standing screen from the exhibition floor. A 3.9mm pitch gives a clean picture at those distances without paying for finer modules that nobody would stand close enough to notice. Our LED video walls page explains how pitch, viewing distance and brightness are matched for permanent installs, and the indoor LED displays page covers the indoor options.
Why LED mesh for the door
A rigid LED cabinet cannot be hung on a moving door leaf. The countdown screen uses our L-V-W FlexCurtain LED mesh instead: a flexible, lightweight LED net that bends, drapes and fixes to surfaces a cabinet cannot. At 35mm pitch the pixels are coarse by indoor standards, but a large circular countdown read from several metres away only needs a few hundred pixels across, and the gaps in the mesh keep the weight on the door hinges low.
The mesh sits behind a glass covering on each leaf, so the LEDs are protected from the thousands of visitors who pass through the door every week and the glass gives the opening a single flat surface when the count is not running.
Related Dynamo visitor attraction and custom LED projects
- Four recessed LED arches at 40 Leadenhall, set into the foyer walls of a City of London tower
- Immersive LED room for Mount Anvil at the London New Home Show
- LED tunnel experience at Dublin Airport
- LED cube with a screen on every face for a Lewis Hamilton charity event
- Custom LED snowflake built from triangular modules
- LED advertising screens: where the Lift 109 billboard fits
LED video walls at Battersea Power Station: frequently asked questions
What LED screens are at Lift 109 in Battersea Power Station?
There are four LED video walls at the Lift 109 entrance, all installed by Dynamo LED Displays: a 5 m x 1 m ticketing and lift-times display, a 3.5 m x 6 m portrait billboard, a 2.5 m x 3.5 m screen in a custom metal housing and a 3.5 m x 2.24 m LED mesh countdown fitted to the opening door.
What is Lift 109 at Battersea Power Station?
Lift 109 is the visitor attraction inside Battersea Power Station. After an exhibition about the history of the building, visitors ride a glass lift up the inside of one of the chimneys to a viewing platform with views across London. The LED screens at the entrance handle ticketing, lift times, promotion and the countdown to each departure.
What pixel pitch was used for the Lift 109 LED video walls?
The three main screens use DVX series panels at 3.9mm pixel pitch, which suits viewing distances from a few metres to the far side of the entrance hall. The countdown door uses a 35mm LED mesh, a much coarser pitch that is still sharp enough for a large circular countdown read from across the exhibition floor.
How was an LED screen fitted to an opening door?
A flexible LED mesh was fixed to each of the two door sections and covered with glass, so the screen splits and rejoins as the door opens and closes. Mesh weighs far less than rigid cabinets, which keeps the load on the door mechanism low, and the glass protects the LEDs from visitors passing through.
Can LED video walls be installed in a listed building?
Yes. Battersea Power Station is Grade II* listed and the Lift 109 screens show two approaches that work in a historic interior: a free-standing custom metal housing that needs no wall fixings, and a wall-mounted display and billboard set into existing openings. Consent sits with the building owner; Dynamo designs the mounting and structure around what the fabric allows.
Get a quote for an LED video wall at a visitor attraction
Tell us the sizes, where each screen sits and what it needs to show, and we will come back with a pixel pitch, a panel layout and a written quote, including custom housings and mesh where a rigid screen will not fit. Get a quote or call 020 3489 9878.
