LIGHT + TECH 119
BATTERSEA FACTS
Battersea Power Station was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, engineer in chief to the LPC, and CS Allott and Son Engineers. It is one of the world’s largest brick buildings. The architects were J Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott, the latter also renowned for the red telephone box and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
The Battersea Power Station site is owned by a consortium of Malaysian investors – PNB, Sime Darby Property, SP Setia and the Employees’ Provident Fund. The management of the project is undertaken by British-based Battersea Power Station Development Company.
The overall project was divided into eight phases, with each designed by a range of specialist architects. These include SimpsonHaugh and Partners and De Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM) in Circus West Village (Phase 1), WilkinsonEyre in Battersea Power Station (Phase 2), and Foster + Partners and Gehry Partners in The Electric Boulevard, Battersea Roof Gardens and Prospect Place (Phase 3).
The first chapter of the development, Circus West Village, was completed in 2017 and is now home to more than 1,800 residents, as well as an eclectic mix of bars, restaurants and leisure facilities, including a cinema and theatre.
The Power Station is the second phase to open to the public. Apple’s London Campus is based there, hundreds of new shops are housed in the historic turbine halls, as well as a 2,000-capacity event venue, a 1,720 sq m food hall, a glass chimney lift and hundreds of new homes.
25,000 people will be living and working there when the development is complete, creating one of London’s largest ofice, retail, leisure and cultural quarters. Across the site there will be more than 250 shops, cafes and restaurants, theatre, hotel, medical centre and public space, plus a new 280,000 sq m ofice district alongside residential developments.
While the lighting for Phase 1 of the public realm had already been designed by GIA Equation when Speirs Major won the project through a limited design competition, this scheme was updated to align with the wider masterplan so that it seamlessly integrated with the vision for Phase 2, including the Power Station itself and its immediate context.
Speirs Major was also later commissioned to design Phase 3 including the exterior lighting to a residential building by Frank O Gehry, a mixed-use development by Foster + Partners, Malaysia Square by BIG and WilkinsonEyre Architects. The remit also included areas of connecting public realm including the Electric Boulevard which leads from the Power Station to the Power Station underground station.
SPEIRS MAJOR / JAMES NEWTON
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