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The humble gasometer, a feature of 20th century urban life in Europe is making a comeback as a housing concept (Chimni Home Typology 8.4.4).

New flats built into 'The Triplets' at Kings Cross, London (with thanks to @GasometerGal for the photo)
The Alliance Building in Dublin, designed by archictects O’Mahony Pike ,is today a nine story apartment block.
Gasklocken in Stockholm, Sweden a residential development and park by Herzog & de Meuron

'Scene of rural Gloucestershire during wartime' by architect and illustrator Sir Hugh Casson showing camouflaged gasometer in the background.
'Gasometer (Hackney)' by artist David Preece
Mile End Park Twilight by artist Doreen Fletcher 1983
'Kings Cross Gasholder' by artist Jo Angell
'Marian Square, Hackney' 1952 by Albert Turpin Of The 'East London Group'
'Gasometers at Clichy' by French Impressionist painter Paul Signac (1863–1935)
'The Gas Works' - by Canadian artist Lawren Harris (1885–1970)

Shooting Fish is a 1997 British comedy film which features Kate Beckinsale and two accomplices living in a disused gasometer.

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 File:TheTripletsKingsCross.JPG| New flats built into 'The Triplets' at Kings Cross, London (with thanks to @GasometerGal for the photo)
 File:AllianceGasometerDublin.jpg| The Alliance Building in Dublin, designed by archictects O’Mahony Pike ,is today a nine story apartment block.
+File:Gasklocken-Stockholm.JPG|Gasklocken in Stockholm, Sweden a residential development and park by Herzog & de Meuron