Battersea Power Station
After 40 years of electricity generation, Battersea Power Station was shut down between 1975 and 1978. A competition for its redevelopment was held in 1983. It led to nothing, as did many subsequent schemes from subsequent owners. In 2012 the site was bought by SP Setia and Sime Darby and master planned by architects Rafael Viñoly with landscape architects LDA Design leading the design of the external spaces.
The redevelopment of Battersea will give London over 9 ha of open space, including a 2.4 ha public park and 400 metres of river frontage. The new waterfront will connect Battersea Park to Nine Elms and Vauxhall.
The historic waterfront will have new squares at its south-facing and river-facing entrances. The south square will connect to two new streets: a High Street with a new underground station and a Prospect Street. The Power Station itself will be surrounded by a reflecting pool (The Halo) to create a setting for the Grade I listed building designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The outer margin of The Halo will be a circular street with café terraces. There will be a roof garden on the Power Station, green roofs on the residential blocks and new podium level landscapes for residential development.
Tom Turner
The developments along the river at Battersea are a social obscenity and a total waste of resources. Only 16% of the flats are for affordable housing. 566 units out of the 3,444 in total. Most of the flats are being sold as investments for overseas buyers who do not live there. One bedroom flats are being sold for a million pounds plus.
Estate agents Henry Wiltshire has opened up at Nine Elms, its only other office in London is at Canary Wharf. Other offices are in Abu Dhabi, Hong King and Singapore. Ref http://www.henrywiltshire.co.uk/about-us/
The sky line of London is being made into a simulacrum of Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong, for why, so foreign investors can store their money. Not for Londoners, not for people.
The high rise blocks are organised north south ensuring the spaces inbetween will be in shade, look at google earth photos of London, the LDA sunlit image will be a lie for most of the year.
Thanks for changing to SI measurements.