MAGAZINE ISSUE 06 / AUTUMN 2017

FEATURING POWER STATION UPDATE, CIRCUS WEST VILLAGE, THE POWER CLUB, EXHIBITION, DID YOU KNOW? POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 CONTENTS POWERHOUSEPOWERHOUSE ISSUEISSUE 0606 INTRODUCTIONOFFICE SPACE INTRO- DUCING he excitement continues to build here at Battersea Underground Station at Battersea Power Station another STORY SO FAR A DAY IN THE LIFE Power Station, with important events coming thick big step closer. Phase 3 is now also well under way. 02 24 T and fast. We’ve had residents living here for almost We’ve also had the pleasure of opening The Riverhouse, six months, our first retailers are open for business at Circus our luxurious Residents’ Club at Circus West. This pace POWER STATION UPDATE BATTERSEA ROOF GARDENS West Village and visitor numbers are well past 250,000. of activity will continue to intensify. 04 26 We are all personally involved as we have also moved our offices into Circus West. The Power of Summer Festival has surpassed everything we’ve done yet in terms of events and many more retailers CIRCUS WEST VILLAGE NOW OPEN A BOOST FOR BATTERSEA Many other important milestones have been passed in recent will soon be opening at Circus West Village. 10 28 months. Perhaps the most visible of these is the completion of the new Power Station chimneys. They are exact replicas We are very grateful to our customers for making all this of their iconic predecessors: the only differences are that possible, and would love to welcome you to the site for a visit. CIRCUS WEST VILLAGE DINING PINK FLOYD EXHIBITION they have modern internal structures and their concrete 14 30 was not mixed using Thames salt water, so we can expect I look forward to sharing more exciting news in the future. them to be even more durable. We’re very proud to have CIRCUS WEST NOW HOME DID YOU KNOW? preserved this unique piece of ’s skyline for the future 16 32 - an achievement which would have been impossible without your support. Work on the Power Station itself is going forward at a tremendous pace.

THE POWER CLUB PICTURING BATTERSEA Rob Tincknell 2012 north-east”, looking of a chimney, base the from “View 18 34 Elsewhere on the site the tunnelling machines for the CEO Extension have set off on their journey Battersea Power Station OFFICE SPACE HERITAGE TRAIL to , bringing the reality of a Zone 1 London Development Company 20 36 MEET THE ARCHITECT 22

All illustrations: Michael Warren BATTERSEA POWER STATION 01 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 THE STORY SO FAR POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 AWARDS AND DESIGN The Award STORY SO FAR WINNING Battersea Power Station DESIGN STORE

attersea Power Station is a design icon. Its architect, Sir , B was not only an architect but the Sir Jonathan Ive of his day, responsible for the famous as well as his many great buildings. For generations the Power Station has inspired artists in every medium: film, television, music and art. “View of Power Station (with French cranes)”, 1989 he Power Station is widely acknowledged as an exceptional project. Here are a few “ Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was T of our recent awards which reflect that. not only an architect but the Jonathan Ive of his day.” 1933 1980 2012 EG Awards Deal of the Year Won Battersea A, featuring the first two Battersea Power Station is declared Site purchased by Malaysian consortium * chimneys, begins generating electricity a National Heritage site, Grade II listed comprising of Sime Darby, S P Setia and Constructing Excellence Awards Preservation and Rejuvenation Award Won The Power Station Design Store at Battersea Power The Employees Provident Fund Station celebrates this heritage with carefully Saving Lives Awards Best Organisation Won curated products chosen to inspire and delight. It has fashion, homewares, stationery, ceramics, Evening Standard Business Awards Property Company of the Year Won textiles, jewellery, artworks, gifts and souvenirs. 1953-55 1983 2013 Many of the items that will be available are from * Property EU Deal of the Decade Won Battersea B comes into operation Battersea B ceases operation Restoration of the iconic Grade II local designers and makers, and all of them will listed Power Station begins bring to mind one of London’s iconic landmarks. Variety PROPS Awards Deal of the Year Won

Property Week Awards Deal of the Year Won Location: The Pavilion, 21-22 Circus Road West 1975 2011 2017 Planning Awards Award for Regeneration Won Circus West Village, SW11 8EZ Battersea A closes Outline planning consent granted First residents move in to Circus West Village, for the Rafael Viñoly masterplan and it’s open to the public

02 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 03 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 POWER ON POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 POWER ON 51m The iconic 51m tall chimneys have been re-built from scratch using original building methods

375 litres of paint were used per chimney - 1,500 litres in all

onstruction work on the Power Station, Phase 2, continues at a rapid pace, and is Con programme. With the new chimneys POWER ONcomplete, the Power Station looks whole again and work is progressing rapidly in the boiler house and turbine halls.

Given the important role of the chimneys in the regeneration of the masterplan site and the Power Station, we have been working very closely with the London Borough of ’s Planning and Conservation officers and throughout the chimney rebuilding process.

Over 6,000 wheelbarrow-loads of concrete were used in the reconstruction of each chimney, using a system that replicated the original construction method while incorporating more modern steel reinforcement. This will ensure that the new chimneys remain landmarks on the London skyline for generations to come. 46 tonnes of reinforcement The new chimneys have been painted from top to were used per chimney bottom, with each paint band approximately three metres wide and each line taking exactly one day to complete. The painting of all four chimneys is now complete, earlier than expected. The chimneys received a base coat and final coat of paint in the exact 21 colour the originals were painted in to ensure they are The hoist has travelled a total of 21 miles virtually identical. lifting concrete to eight workers waiting to pour it into the chimneys

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Each chimney top has n early September a new road bridge an overall diameter of was installed at the eastern end of the I Power Station to enhance access to Phase 1. October will see the opening of the River Bus jetty, providing easy access to 6.94m Battersea Power Station.

The new residents’ stair cores will begin Each chimney base has to rise up within the Power Station in the an overall diameter of autumn, when we will also commence refurbishment of the original truss girders that provide support for the roof glazing over the western Turbine Hall. 9.05m

The next big event on our calendar will be the installation of the structural steelwork inside the building, which is expected to Each chimney uses start later this year. 282m³ To the north of the Power Station the excavation for the main Energy Centre of concrete, weighing over (which will heat and cool this whole site) has been completed and steel erection is 680 tonnes under way. The plan is to finish the ground floor slab by April 2018. Meanwhile to the south of the Power Station the structural work for Malaysia Square is complete and the focus here has moved to delivery of the spectacular stone design. This will be the 1,000,000 new town square. bricks have been re-created to restore the Power Station

3,000 workers on site daily

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n the river itself we’re working with dRMM architects on the plan for refurbishment of the Power Station jetty, which like the building Northern Line O itself is a listed heritage landmark. We want the facilities on the jetty Extension Progress to work well with the Power Station Park on the bank and we’re exploring various options: we’ll be updating you as this exciting element of the Power Station’s design takes shape. The two giant tunnel boring machines, named Helen and Amy are on their 3.2km journey, 20m below ground. More than 30,000 tonnes of earth is expected to be excavated and the With Phase 2 construction making good progress across the board and the majority of this is being taken away by barge on the Thames, which is a far more sustainable main office space already taken up by Apple, we intend to develop the details method. Once complete in 2020, Battersea Power Station will be connected to the West End of our retail and leisure leasing plan during 2018. or the City in less than 15 minutes.

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MORE THAN 300,000 VISITORS JUNE’S STREET FOOD FESTIVAL A HIT MULTI-MILLION POUND CULTURAL AS CIRCUS WEST VILLAGE One of the most popular events so far at Circus West PROGRAMME GETS UNDER WAY Village was June’s fabulous Street Food Festival, tied in OPENS FOR BUSINESS with the London Evening Standard’s ‘Food Month’. Battersea Power Station has announced a first year investment of £6.8m in a local programme designed to ensure an exceptional Visitors have flocked to Circus West new arts and cultural quarter. Village in recent months, enjoying a host of Food offerings included Hank’s Po’ Boys - South events in the open air and the new Village London meets New Orleans - deep fried bird from the cheeky chaps at Mother Clucker, gorgeous gelato The programme includes delivery of the new Village Hall, a Hall. Residents and locals have enjoyed a public sculpture competition, an educational Heritage Trail spectacular Father’s Day show, ice-creams from Nonna’s and Spanish churros from La Churreria among many others. augmented reality app and the new ‘Power’ public art installation and coffee, food trucks, a bubbleologist and at Grosvenor Arch from acclaimed designer Morag Myerscough. pop-ups including Dodd’s Gin. Fortunately spinning sensation Boom Cycle is now open at Circus West Village to help us shed the The cultural programme is masterminded by Jude Kelly, artistic extra pounds. director of the Southbank Centre.

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VISIT OF HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL

On 10 May 2017 HRH the Princess Royal visited Battersea Power Station as part of a Commonwealth Leaders event. She attended in her capacity as President of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences. She was welcomed and shown around the new Village Hall by Dato’ Jauhari, Chairman of the Battersea Power Station Development Company.

THE ‘POWER OF SUMMER’ THE BATTERSEA POWER

This year, London had a new attraction: STATION CHOIR HITS A HIGH Battersea Power Station’s awesome Power NOTE AT THE LAUNCH OF of Summer Festival. A dazzling array of theatre, fitness, music and poetry enthralled ‘THE NED’ local residents and visitors from across the city - and beyond. Members of the Battersea Power Station Community Choir are on a high after From 22 July to 1 September, there was successfully performing with famous something excellent to experience every choirmaster Gareth Malone, well-known from single day at Circus West Village, including: BBC Two’s ‘The Choir’. The Battersea singers buskers, rappers, DJs, spinning, comedy, performed for an audience of hundreds at the poetry, trampolines, theatre, nail bars, gin grand opening of ‘the Ned’, the historic former bars, scooters, roller disco, Yoga, Zumba, BATTERSEA POWER STATION SUPPORTS MENTAL HEALTH Midland Bank building now transformed by pop-ups, drop-ins and chillouts. CAMPAIGN ‘HEADS TOGETHER’ Soho House. The Choir has an enthusiastic membership The north-east chimney was sporting a blue command attention like no other! I’m of local residents and workers, and continues headband in support of the Heads Together delighted this world famous landmark is to attract more singers. The music director is campaign. The team at Battersea Power broadcasting support for such a vitally Sam Evans, who also directs the well-known Station was proud to get behind the charity, important cause and I want to thank everyone Battersea Choral Society. which is led by Prince Harry and the Duke and who has helped make it possible. The Duchess of Cambridge and was the Charity of Battersea Power Station team is doing some The Choir has also performed at the Village the Year for the London Marathon. incredibly valuable work with local charities Hall, and will be returning during the ‘Power Ravi Govindia, Leader of Wandsworth and communities and this latest initiative of Summer’ festival. Council, said: “Whether it’s flying pigs raises the bar even higher.” or giant headbands, stunts involving this magnificent building have the power to

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This summer has seen the opening of the first MOTHER restaurants and shops at Circus West Village, Straight from Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, Italian pizza which is fast becoming a vibrant new riverside powerhouse Mother has also opened its doors and is proving popular already. Thousands of Londoners flocked to the new destination in the capital. restaurant’s grand opening to enjoy complimentary wine and beer as well as taste Mother’s signature seawater sourdough pizzas which are served straight from the wood fired oven.

As if that isn’t enough, Mother also offers a generous buffet style Circus West Village brunch every Sunday where you will find counters filled with a glorious selection of homemade pasta dishes, cold meats, cheeses and other breakfast classics such as pastries, muffins, granola and fresh bread.

On the opening of Mother’s first restaurant outside of Denmark, David Biffani, co-owner said: “We wanted to create a warm and inviting place and since opening we have had an overwhelming response by our guests about how nice it is to see such a diverse group of people in the restaurant. It’s also something that depended a lot on the actual space so we worked hard to transform the railway arch into a very homely, relaxed space for people to enjoy. It’s a place where residents and locals can come in and relax, we DININGTHE BATTERSEA GENERAL STORE want to make them feel like they are at home.” The Battersea General Store was first to open its doors and it did not disappoint. The store offers all the daily essentials from fresh bread, groceries and milk to a wider selection of mouth-watering delicacies and confectionery from around the world. The store celebrates the best of local craft produce and will deliver to residents in Battersea via an online delivery service.

The store also offers a range of goods not available anywhere else in the capital, including cookies from Nantucket, delicacies from Korea and one of the widest ranges of teas from around the world. NO. 29 POWER STATION WEST Owner and local Battersea resident, Raj Bathia, says: “Whether you want a freshly made sandwich from our continental deli, a Circus West Village is excited to be home to its very own bottle of wine to add to your picnic or are doing your weekly shop, village pub. No. 29 Power Station West, from neighbourhood we have everything you need. We are your global local store. You bar group Darwin & Wallace, opened this summer providing can come in, relax and enjoy the beautiful surrounding, sample all day dining in a beautifully stylish setting with art-deco our delicacies while you shop or have it delivered straight to your interiors inspired by the Power Station. Over 100 pieces of door. Should you be able to name something we haven’t got, we hand-picked and crafted furniture, tiles and artwork have will do everything we can to get it for you.” been carefully selected to give the bar its unique aesthetic, with soft furnishings such as leathers, velvets and linens referencing the glamour of the 1920s.

14 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 15 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 CIRCUS WEST POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 CIRCUS WEST Circus West Circus West key facts 2 NOW buildings 865 apartments HOME The length of SimpsonHaugh and Partners glass building at Circus West 2 architects: Beautifully dressed riverfront three bedroom apartment SimpsonHaugh & Partners + he two buildings of Circus West are very nearly complete, dRMM mid-October will mark another important milestone for T us that we are very proud of. We have over 300 residents Home to now living here and enjoying the spaces we have created; not only their apartments but the public realm, the garden, The Village Hall The Riverhouse and exclusive Residents’ Club, The Riverhouse. Residents’ Club

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Even the escape stairwell has been beautifully designed

PHASE 4a Circus West sits west of the Power Station Residential lobby

16 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 17 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 THE POWER CLUB POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 THE POWER CLUB The The Riverhouse Resort

The first Power Club facility to open is The Riverhouse, the Residents’ Club in Circus West. Spread over three floors and 5,300 square feet overlooking the river, The Riverhouse, sumptuously designed throughout LIVING by design firm LINLEY, has its own unique look and feel. Amenities include the Circus bar and dining area, the terrace with magnificent views across the Thames, the residents’ pantry, the games room and the quietly POWER Life at Battersea Power Station starts elegant drawing room. There are also private dining rooms, bookable with a stunning apartment set among meeting rooms and a screening room which residents can book for parties, architectural masterpieces in an enviable meetings or other functions as desired. location. But it also offers a great deal more: as a Battersea Power Station resident, you’ll have access to all the CLUB amazing residents’ amenities across the hen you take ownership of your apartment, you will get site – a concept we call Resort Living. membership to The Power Club. The Power Club is many W things. It’s a private members’ club exclusively for residents Fancy a change from your apartment’s of Battersea Power Station, with a whole range of luxurious, exclusive view? Drop in to the luxurious clubhouses and facilities distributed across the development. It’s the Riverhouse at Circus West and enjoy a Concierge Plus team, which eases your path at Battersea Power Station – vista across the Thames from the Circus walking your dog, putting your groceries in the fridge, collecting and hanging Bar or a private dining room. Picnic on a up your drycleaning – and also around the world. Twenty-four hours a day, grassy lawn in the sky at Battersea Roof Concierge Plus is ready and waiting to organise tables at famous restaurants, Gardens, or enjoy the leisure and spa seats at booked-out performances or sporting events, travel to anywhere you facilities of The Spring in Circus West. want to go or miracles on demand wherever you may be. Never say that something’s impossible until you’ve tried Concierge Plus. If you need to host a dinner, a screening or a meeting, you’ll be spoiled for choice. The Power Club is also an app, accessible via your iOS or Android device or Treat your guests to the luxurious your desktop browser. The Power Club portal gives you access to residential Riverhouse ambience, or the Gehry- services, Concierge Plus, clubhouse facilities such as dining, meeting and GOODWOOD designed chef’s table, library and work screening rooms, relevant news and information and a social network just spaces at The Flower, or high-spec Foster for the Battersea Power Station community. It’ll be one of the most powerful Power Club members also enjoy privileged access to the prestigious Goodwood Estate in the + Partners facilities on the other side of apps on your phone. West Sussex countryside, seat of the Dukes of Richmond since 1697 and managed today by Electric Boulevard. You’ll be able to put the present Duke’s son. Goodwood has long been a centre of British elite sports: cricket was up your guests overnight in rooms set first played seriously in the grounds and the estate remains a centre for shooting and also aside for residents’ use. flying – Goodwood’s busy aerodrome was an RAF fighter base during the Battle of Britain and you can still take a flight in a Spitfire or a P-51 there. The estate is probably most famous Residents won’t be limited to one nowadays, however, for golf, horse racing and motorsport. choice of private gym and spa, either. 24 40,000 There will be pools, meeting rooms, As part of your membership you’ll be part of the racing calendar’s greatest sporting fitness centres, studios and treatment hour Concierge Plus team sq ft of residents’ amenities rooms distributed between Circus West, across the estate experiences and will enjoy unique access to fast horses, classic cars and supercars at such events as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Goodwood Revival Meeting and the Qatar the Power Station, The Flower and Festival of Racing, also known as Glorious Goodwood. You’ll also have the opportunity to Battersea Roof Gardens. play at the famous golf course, and enjoy the estate’s luxurious hospitality.

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In PROGRESS Alongside the 500,000 sq ft of the office space in the Grade II* listed Power Station which was pre-let to Apple last September, the team at Battersea Power Station is excited to announce that an additional 40,000 sq ft of office space has been made available in the centre of the iconic building. Before Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, this space was the engine room and consequently played a key part in the running of the Power Station.

Designed by WilkinsonEyre, the space will be set over two floors overlooking the light filled central atrium and will accommodate an extra 500 or so workers. Workers will be sharing the space in the building with a wide variety of retailers, restaurants as well as residents.

Across the wider Battersea Power Station development there is at least a further 750,000 sq ft of office space to come.

pple is an exceptional company. It is the most valuable Welcome firm in the world by market capitalisation and its iPhone A has been justly dubbed “the most profitable product in OFFICEhistory”. We believe that the offices we’re creating in the Power Station building, like the rest of the residential and commercial spaces at Battersea Power Station, will be truly worthy of such an APPLE outstanding occupant.

We also believe that Apple and its employees will find themselves in excellent company among the other people and occupiers who will live, work and play at the Power Station.

Apple is expected to move into the Power Station in 2021, and will bring 1,400 staff to work and collaborate in one location. This commitment from Apple will undoubtedly help us create a thriving new community on your doorstep. 20 BATTERSEA POWER STATION SPACE BATTERSEA POWER STATION 21 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 SEBASTIEN RICARD POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 SEBASTIEN RICARD SEBASTIEN RICARD Meet the lead architect taking on the Power Station's remarkable rebirth

ebastien Ricard is the lead architect project in Bath (refurbishment of the listed train deck is now complete on the south side of the from WilkinsonEyre, the architects station by Brunel, creation of a new piazza site and the north side deck is well advanced.” of Battersea Power Station, Phase 2. and bus station). Another project, the Magna S “When we start working more above the Completion of Phase 2 will see the Grade Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham, II* listed Power Station building restored, which won the prestigious Stirling Prize. ground the work will go more quickly, and this preserving its unique appearance and character is soon to begin. Steel work will start later this while transforming it into a combination of “Here you have huge size and massive year, and the core packages – things such as stunning offices, astonishing residences and infrastructure, but also listed fabric and a lifts, for instance – have already been procured. exciting retail space. very limited site – you can see the size and The first new roof, for Turbine Hall A, will be the restrictions from the number of cranes starting soon.” at work, which is totally unprecedented at “It’s almost a city in its own right, all under one Ricard expects that the pace of works above roof,” says Ricard. “Nowadays of course it’s times. And this is only one phase of the larger project. I was not surprised to hear that the ground will be such that residents will be asked very trendy to say that a development is mixed- to select the finish palette for their new homes use. Everyone wants to say it, and of course planning permission was the largest ever granted in London.” early in 2018. The choice is between the “33” mixing uses is the way forward, it’s much better finish, drawing on the original, luxurious 1933 than zoning as we saw back in the 1960s. The Power Station building will be the Turbine Hall A, or the sparer “47” aesthetic centrepiece of the wider development, reflecting the look of the post-war side of the “Very often a ‘mixed-use’ development is all but Ricard points out that it will also be the Power Station. offices or homes with one or two shops, let’s say. heart of the site in terms of infrastructure. But just in Phase 2 at Battersea Power Station Ricard adds that he has recently been to we have more office space than the Gherkin, “The whole Phase 2 site has a very deep inspect detailed mockups of the cladding for nearly as much retail as and basement,” he explains. “This provides all the sky villas at the top of the Power Station the same again of residential and leisure – all the services, plant and energy for the entire building. The internal faces of these will feature in one building. It’s very exciting and different, development. It is a very complex part stone portals to emphasise the feeling of an and this mix of uses will be very much to the of the building, and there is a service ring individual house. “Everything is unique on this benefit of those living here. following the road around it to feed all the job,” he says. other phases. There is no part of Phase 2 which “This kind of project, on this scale, is very is not affected by this – even the park has a “These homes will be really, really special,” says rare in Europe.”Ricard has worked on many basement under it.” Ricard. “It’s your own house with your own high-profile projects in the past, including the garden, terrace and balcony – and a park, just The Crystal for Siemens, a museum about “All this has necessitated a great deal of for residents – but it’s all 50 metres up in the air sustainability in cities which was completed in underground work, and this infrastructure has overlooking the city. There’s nothing else like 2012, and Southgate Transport Interchange taken a long time to build. But the concrete it in the world.

22 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 23 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 A DAY IN THE LIFE POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 A DAY IN THE LIFE A Day in the Life “ We came here and turned a derelict, deserted industrial area into an incredibly busy construction site which is continually changing.” October will see the The Northern Line Thames is MIKE GRICE launch of a new River Bus Extension will bring the the project delivering a service from Battersea new “super sewer” for Chief Construction Officer, Battersea Power Station and painted. The chimneys themselves are Power Station. Operated rail network to Battersea London, intended to ease not complicated, but carrying out major by MBNA Thames Power Station. Two new the strain on the city’s ot many days are the same for me, demolition and construction work between 50 Clippers, the new service tunnels are currently being largely Victorian sewer as the whole point of the job at and 100m heights with 1,500 people working will put Battersea Power bored from the Power networks and deliver a Battersea Power Station is to create N flat out in the building and basement below, Station within 15 minutes Station site to Kennington, cleaner . and manage change. We came here and yes, that’s complicated. Phase 2, which is of Embankment Pier where the extension will Part of the tunnelling turned a derelict, deserted industrial area into the Power Station building itself, has people for the West End and join the existing Northern works for the Tideway will an incredibly busy construction site which is working on all levels: keeping; it all going under 20 minutes to Line. As well as the new be conducted from a site continually changing: cranes and tunnel boring safely is like a four-dimensional Rubik’s cube Blackfriars. Boats will station at Battersea Power on Kirtling Street to the machines and other heavy equipment appearing which you have to keep solving over and over run every 20 minutes Station, there will also be east of the Power Station. and disappearing, structures going up, roads again. It’s not just people we have to worry during commuting hours an intermediate station at Works are expected to be and access shifting about and so on. And now, about, either: there was a pair of peregrine and every 30 minutes . Trains will run complete in 2022, after part of that construction site has changed again falcons living in the building when we arrived, during the day and at from 2020. The Northern which the Tideway site into completed buildings and public space: and during breeding season they have more weekends. This will be a Line Extension is funded by will become part of the and those continue to change as people and rights than anybody. Fortunately we’ve been great benefit right on the developers working in the later phases of the Power businesses move in. able to persuade them to move into a special doorstep for residents and Nine Elms Regeneration Station development. tower which we’ve put up nearby. visitors and represents Area, including Battersea So every day really is different. Having said another major milestone Power Station and the that, there are regular events. On a typical day There’s always something new which needs for us. US Embassy. for me, the first thing is to check that everything to be anticipated: for instance at the moment, is going to run smoothly: that everyone has the the earth that’s being dug out of the Northern access they need, that there aren’t going to be Line Extension tunnels comes up and is carried problems with logistics or vehicles. all the way across the site on a large elevated conveyor to the river where barges take it a lot more positive here at Battersea. The local Mike Grice is Chief Construction Officer of the I’ll also often have a session with the major away. It won’t be all that long before tunnelling neighbourhood has quite limited facilities at the Battersea Power Station Development Company. contractors and coordinate across the different is finished, however. By that point we need moment, so the conversation tends to focus on Before coming to Battersea he worked on many projects and phases of construction which are to have a plan in place for dismantling that our shops, The Village Hall community space one-off, specialist construction projects. He was active. We have the first three phases of the conveyor system and getting it off site without and restaurants, which is a pleasant change. Project Director for the London 2012 Olympics Power Station development underway at the Most days I also like to get out on site and see Then we shut the road, lift the bridge sections, bringing everything else to a halt: so we’re Athletes’ Village, and has also worked on the Scottish moment, plus the Northern Line Extension what’s happening, especially with activities check that all is well and open the road up already working on that. At the end of the day it’s all about keeping Government offices at Victoria Quay in Leith, the and the Thames Tideway. There are also that may involve different projects and areas again. Timing is very important here and this everything moving and making sure that Media Centre at Lord’s cricket ground and the power networks and water mains going in. All – for instance bringing in a new crane. One will have to be done again three times. After office hours, sometimes I’ll go to a 3,500 people and all their vehicles can get Grandstand at Newbury racecourse. these are major undertakings, and most people challenge we have at the moment is the access meeting with neighbouring residents. On a on to the site every day, do their work and go involved in them don’t think outside their own road for our new residents. We’ve just moved Another recent challenge was rebuilding normal project this often focuses on complaints home safely. I feel that if I’ve achieved that, project, so I have to be the ringmaster. it, which involves a 500 ton crane coming in. the chimneys, which we’ve just completed about noise, dust and vehicles, but it tends to be then I’m doing my job.

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1.2 250m 22m ROOF GARDENS acre area long wide attersea Roof Gardens is the next exciting new phase of the Battersea Power Station One of the largest redevelopment. Designed by esteemed British B 65m Skyparks architecture practice Foster + Partners, it’s undulating in the air in Europe façade is designed to mirror the waves of the River Thames. Undoubtedly the crown jewel of the building is the 1.2-acre rooftop garden that sits on top of it (it's Views over roughly the same size as Kensington Roof Gardens). Battersea Rooftop

Created by James Corner Field Operations, the team Park Pool behind New York City’s ‘High Line’, the garden will be one of the largest skyparks in Europe reaching an impressive 250m in length, the equivalent of 25 double art’otel Conversation Lounge Lookout Game Room Lookout Lookout Room Lookout decker London buses and longer than . battersea Pool

This beautifully landscaped garden will provide the most impressive views over the London skyline and will offer a variety of spaces in which residents can relax, unwind and entertain friends. Thoughtful landscaping incorporates quiet pockets of space to read a book, a sun lawn and seating, BBQ and picnic areas to meet neighbours and a multi-purpose deck – all with the most incredible views.

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Sunset Bar Cabana Sun Summer Sun Lawn Hammock Woodland Glade Fitness and Play Look out Lounge Kitchen Room Battersea Roof Garden (250m), design and development by LDA Design

PHASE 4a

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26 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 27 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 A BOOST FOR BATTERSEA POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 A BOOST FOR BATTERSEA

London’s first major new Tube extension with two new stations Over 150 +2 paid for through the redevelopment 50 £6.8m and additional Business Rates Bringing together existing and new apprentices Battersea Power Station is famous as a cultural icon communities in the form of the Battersea have worked at Battersea Power and we are investing to keep it that way with a £6.8m Over Power Station Choir which now has Station so far cultural strategy in Phase 1 alone 250,000+ almost 50 members people have visited Circus West Village £2.5m Riverside of funds awarded to more than 66 60 good causes so far from the Battersea 18 acres Community Forums directly involved in Walk Power Station Foundation, supporting £20bn development management comprising local charities and community will be injected into the UK economy as a result of the of public space being created including opened successful regeneration of Battersea Power Station a new six-acre riverside park residents’ association, business and initiatives, with a commitment for community interest groups Never before been accessible to public another £3.5m A BOOST FOR BATTERSEA Battersea Power Station is committed New Over to benefiting the local community The BASE Launched Battersea Academy of Skills and River Bus Village Excellence (BASE), providing training for 17,000 local people and job opportunities service NHS hours Operational in Autumn 2017 Hall saved by treatment administered by £13m New 5,000 sq ft multi-use arts venue the award-winning nursing team new NHS medical facility due to start 1,000 at Battersea Power Station’s on-site opened in Circus West Village school children engaged directly and over construction later this year medical centre (Partnership with Battersea Arts Centre) 150 work experience placements so far 40 days 20,000 people will be employed long term as a of formal consultation and over 386 23 result of the successful regeneration affordable homes which equates to local restaurants, cafés and retailers opening, 100,000 15% of the current detailed planning including: The Battersea General Store, Vagabond, consent for local people to move into in Duckroad, Dodd’s Gin, Mother, Ben’s Canteen, people engaged with on the development 2020. A further 250 affordable homes The CoffeeWorks Project, Wright Brothers, No. 29 of Battersea Power Station are planned for Phase 5 Power Station West, Paul Edmonds and Fiume

28 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 29 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 PINK FLOYD POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 PINK FLOYD

The shoot eventually lasted three lasted three The shoot eventually the first day with the sky from days, being combined with the images of using a the third the pig from notes that, Powell dye-transfer. firstwonderful, sky had this “that quality to it, Turner-esque broody suited the mood ofwhich the picture and the music”. to is proud Station Power Battersea of part been have immaculately this included which V&A exhibit, curated the original dials on loan from several Station. Power The Exhibition Their Pink Floyd Mortal Remains © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2017 FLOYD with pink pig, and the album art has and the album with pink pig, distinctive the building’s that ensured silhouette is familiar to millions never have who the world around visited London. the produced The which photoshoot in down has also gone cover album studio design the by Organised history. the for idea the Hipgnosis (though frontman Floyd Pink from pig came no fewer saw shoot the Waters) Roger 14 photographersthan dispatched the capture to Station Power the to angles. different from Algie inflatable ended shoot famously The first day’s broke once airborne, as Algie, in chaos his moorings and floated from free out ofaway control. a phone box “I had to call 999 from Aubrey and tell the police”, recalls ofPowell stopped “They Hipgnosis. all flights in and out of Heathrow”. ink Floyd: Theirink Floyd: Mortal was a powerful Remains Victoria London’s at exhibit & Albert Museum, featuring artwork, artwork, & Albert Museum, featuring holograms and artefacts visuals, told the story ofwhich the hugely rock band. It was influential prog the first internationalretrospective of one of most iconic the world’s ensembles. musical took a Station Power Battersea place among the imagery prominent This resulted, included in the exhibit. of the seminal cover from course, art of album the 1977 Pink Floyd the band’s shows which Animals, ‘Algie’, pink pig, famous inflatable ofchimneys the between floating This image has Station. the Power consciousness the public entered the introductory so completely that film to the 2012 London Olympics complete Station the Power showed P PINK

30 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 31 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 DID YOU KNOW? POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 DID YOU KNOW? A+B DID YOU KNOW? The Power Station was actually built in two stages: Battersea A (left) was completed in 1935 and Battersea B, despite the war, came into service in 101m 1944 with the fourth chimney completed in 1955 The top of the chimneys are 101m from the ground. The chimneys themselves are 50m each, while the wash towers they sit on are 51m in height

The north-west chimney will be turned into a 360° chimney lift viewing experience 1940 The chimneys had a tile lining instead of brick lining, In 1940 RAF pilots used the plumes of the white vapour an uncommon feature for a power station. This is due from the chimneys to guide them home in the mist. to the belief that the harmful contaminants and heat The Luftwaffe also used the plumes for navigation, which were largely removed during the gas washing process explains why the Power Station avoided extensive bombing

million bricks were used to construct the original Power Station

6 The Power Station’s designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott The space within the main Boiler House of the (above) had originally proposed that the chimneys Power Station is so vast that it would be possible be square instead of circular to fit in the whole of St Paul's Cathedral within the space Battersea Power Station provided electricity to some of the most recognizable locations in London such as With the prospect of invasion, during WWII , Wimbledon, Houses of Parliament it is said that the burnt large and consignments of bank notes in the Power Station furnaces

32 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 33 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 PICTURING BATTERSEA POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 PICTURING BATTERSEA Michael Warren PICTURING BATTERSEA The artist who has captured the life of Battersea Power Station for the last 30 years

ichael Warren is a London based artist who has been drawing and painting contemporary London life for the M past 30 years. He has had a number of one man shows and has contributed to many mixed exhibitions including the Bankside, The Royal cademy Summer Exhibition, The Jubilee collection (1977), The Business Art Gallery, The Mall Galleries, the Laing collection, The Singer and Freidlander (The Sunday Times Exhibition), The Bartley Drey Gallery, The Piers Feetham Gallery and The Royal Watercolour Society and The Royal Institute of Painters in watercolours exhibitions.

Michael studied initially on a graphic design course at Sidcup School “The Power Station from Chelsea Bridge”, 1988 of Art, where he was taught life drawing by Frank Auerbach. My interest in the Power This for me, was very much the ‘open He worked as a graphic designer at Crawford’s and Charles Barkers “View from Nine Elms Lane, looking North”, 1986 Station started in 1985 when I door’ to the site during the earlier in the city and the West End. He gradually became more interested used to visit an artist friend in Battersea. stages of the demolition of the interior in fine art and returned to Art College to study life drawing and Every time I crossed Chelsea Bridge - cumulating in the inauguration of the painting at Goldsmiths, and St Martins. there it was, dark and derelict. site by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with the promise of He spent over three years drawing and painting the Household I started drawing from the bridge, completion in 1990. Cavalry, the Blues and Royals, and The Lifeguards at Knightsbridge but soon wanted to get closer, which Barracks, and exhibited at The Montpelier Studio in 1983 and 1986 a was tricky as it was ‘out of bounds’. There was also a great flurry of activity series of watercolours of the soldiers and horses at their daily activities Eventually I was seen drawing near the when the helicopter pad was used and ceremonial duties. rail yards by a security man and his dog. for the arrival of John Broome for He suggested I contact head office to gain important meetings. Now, back on site I From 1987 to 1990, during the early stages of its demolition and access. By now John Broom had bought continue to draw the old dereliction as it regeneration, Michael as the official artist in residence, employed by the site, and after a short meeting, he saw gradually is replaced by the new. Once Battersea Leisure, at Battersea Power Station, London’s world-famous my drawings and offered me the position a week I am there to follow landmark. From that commission he generated a comprehensive and of Artist in residence. the changes. historically valuable collection of paintings and drawings. “Crane with grabber”, 1987 “The Gantry”, 1988 Photo: Rita Antonioli - aerreimage.com

34 BATTERSEA POWER STATION BATTERSEA POWER STATION 35 POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 HERITAGE TRAIL POWERHOUSE ISSUE 06 THEN AND NOW The Battersea Birdwatch Update HERITAGE THEN

TRAIL AND NOW May - These are exciting times for fans of the Power Station o celebrate the unique heritage of Battersea Memories of Working at peregrines, as the resident pair are in the final stages of rearing this year’s chicks. Power Station – from the backdrop of Pink The Power Station T Floyd’s ‘Animals’ cover to appearances in many The adult falcons, in their special nesting tower, have managed fi lms – we wanted to establish a dedicated Heritage Trail “ I worked at the Power Station, a brood of four this year. One chick is quite small and might not for visitors. servicing the cranes many have survived, but this littlest falcon is full of tenacity. The small times, but they stopped us chick is always first in line when the parents are providing food, The interactive tour will feature information on the driving them because we used cunningly gets the warmest spot behind the other chicks at night, architects, a view into Control Room A, the history of to play bumper cars with and so far is doing well. I seem to recollect that we had a similar the local area, an introduction to our famous chimneys them!” scenario last year with a small chick which survived so hopefully and a preview of the future masterplan for the entire site. this little chap can also. The Power Station is undergoing a huge transformation John Simmons – there are 1,500 people working there to have it ready Electrician June - The chicks are now big enough to defend themselves for 2020 – but in the meantime, you can get up close to against crows, allowing both adults to hunt. I am pleased to the action via the viewing platform, signposted along the “ My grandfather worked here report that by mid June three of the baby falcons have now left Heritage Trail. during the Second World the nest. War. As Battersea was As exciting as this physical transformation is, we also supplying power to the war July - Having now been on the wing for a month, all three want to ensure we preserve as much of the unique rooms he had to stay here, juveniles had now become accomplished flyers, when an adult character of the area by collecting the old stories to share even sleeping there, while caught a pigeon it was then first come first serve. Each juvenile is with new audiences. Alongside the Heritage Trail is the rest of the family was as big as an adult and demands a pigeon for itself, as you could an historic telephone booth, the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott evacuated to Somerset.” imagine it is a very busy time for the adults, they have to feed designed K2, which has been transformed into a ‘Story themselves also.

Box’. Step inside today to go back in time and watch Sandra Sugden 1. Grosvenor Arch August - The three juveniles roaming further afield, on a people’s memories and stories of the Power Station… Granddaughter number of visits I would not see them at all, their Latin name is and if you’re feeling inspired, share your own story of 2. The River Thames Falco Peregrines - basically it means to wander, they are aptly Battersea Power Station too. 3. View of the Power Station 1 “ My father was a bricklayer, BACK TRANSCRIPT working on Battersea B. When named as they do roam a long way, even as a juvenile. 4. Hoarding Wall To take the tour, download our free app, available we were children, going into September - This month has shown infrequent visits by the View of the Power Station 2 from Autumn 2017, that will guide you around 5. London on the train he always male juvenile, it could be that his two female siblings (who have Circus West Village, telling the story of the wider 6. Southern End used to point out to us which stuck together) may have already departed and are self-sufficient Battersea Power Station: under construction, 1939 Provided by Collage chimney was his. He was very site via audio and images. London Picture Archive and have taken prey. 7. The Chimneys proud of that.”

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