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POWERH OU S E BATTERSEA POWER STATION MAGAZINE ISSUE 05 – WINTER 2015/16 Wild at Heart BEAR BUYS AT BATTERSEA POWER STATION • INTRODUCTION BY QUENTIN WILLSON ICON OF INSPIRATION • I WANT TO WORK THERE • BATTERSEA ON INSTAGRAM POWERHOUSE 01 ISSUE º. 5 WINTER 2 015/16 THERE S STILL TIME Tº 06_ INTRODUCTION 36_ BEST OF BRITISH Motoring journalist and TV personality Quentin Willson on why How Battersea Power Station architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Battersea Power Station is an enduring design classic has been honoured in the new British passport COME ABOARD 08_ I WANT TO WORK THERE 38_ ICON OF INSPIRATION Wilkinson Eyre architect Sebastian Ricard’s dream office 3 days, 450 artworks and a lot of LEGO bricks—what went down at Battersea Art Station 12_ 10 THINGS TO DO NEAR DON’T BATTERSEA POWER STATION 44_ SETTING THE SCENE What to do, and where to go Our interview with the new Director of BPS Estates Mark Hutton 14_ BATTERSEA V CHELSEA Property experts debate on the North-South divide and the effect 46_ LONDON CALLING regeneration will have on the Battersea area and beyond London in numbers—how the capital is growing 20_ CREATING A CONNECTED COMMUNITY 48_ FUELLING AMBITION AND CAREER ASPIRATION How the man who brought us Lara Croft and Tomb Raider Stepping up the career ladder is shaping a social network for the Battersea Power Station DO Development 50_ #LIVINGBATTERSEA Celebrating Battersea 22_ COMING HOME TV Adventurer Bear Grylls on life, adventure and his new home 52_ POWERING AHEAD at Battersea Power Station A snapshot of building progress on site 26_ BATTERSEA POWER STATION IN PICTURES 54_ THE YEAR IN REVIEW Snapshots of a scheme in progress A look back at 2015 30_ AT HOME WITH Lighting designer and buyer Patrick Woodroffe invites us into 56_ AND THE WINNER IS ORDINARY his home on the river Thames Why Battersea Power Station is an award winning development 32_ MAKING A SPLASH 58_ MY BATTERSEA art’otel checks in The site nurses keeping the workers working An iconic place to call home in Zone 1 Stunning apartments designed by Foster + Partners and Gehry Partners are available to buy now in the heart of a new neighbourhood for London. DON’T DO ORDINARY Call 020 7501 0678 or visit batterseapowerstation.co.uk 02 POWERING AHEAD POWERHOUSE 01 BOODLES.COM/RAINDANCE THE CONTRIBUTORS Editorial Team Su Yuen Ho Simon Cawte Sarah Lovick Lauren Grant Contributors David Taylor Quentin Willson Design wordsearch.co.uk Illustrations Peter Reynolds Zoe More O’Ferrall Photography Anthony Coleman Anthony Webb Charlie Round-Turner Dennis Gilbert Kilian O’Sullivan Cover Image Bear Grylls in front of Battersea Power Station okadirect.com BATTERSEAPOWERSTATION.CO.UK This brochure and plans and any marketing material and the information contained in them does not form part of any contract, and while reasonable effort has been made to ensure their accuracy, this cannot be guaranteed and no representation or warranty is made in that regard and all such representations and warranties (whether express, implied or otherwise) are excluded to the extent permitted by law. 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No person other than the Landlord has any authority to make or give any representation warranty or guarantee (whether written or oral) in respect of or in relation to the development (or any parts thereof) and accordingly any such representation warranty or guarantee is given entirely without responsibility of the Landlord. “Battersea Power Station” and the silhouette image of Battersea Power Station are registered trademarks of Battersea Project Land Company Limited. January 2016. 04 A DESIGN CLASSIC Introduction by Quentin Willson Industrial architecture doesn’t normally excite us. Cathedrals, abbeys and stately homes tickle our hearts with delicate fingers, but rarely does the broad-shouldered utilitarianism of mills, warehouses and factories excite us. There is, though, one rather famous exception—Battersea Power Station. e instinctively know millions of people towards those celebrated Doric chimneys. And Even decommissioned, in disrepair redevelopment. Aspiring owners also likely to attract up to 40 million entire history is that our famous this is one of Britain’s four soldierly chimneys. Industrial it’s always led a charmed and very and down-at-heel, scores of of a chunk of Britain’s industrial visitors every year. Beneath and liberalism and good taste meant that most unique buildings buildings really aren’t supposed distinctive life. During WWII, it developers still fielded twinkly plans history bought every single flat around those four chimneys will demolition of this truly remarkable butW it’s always had a strange and to do this. escaped German bombers largely to variously turn it into a theme available within weeks and it became be a dramatic living city styled by piece of architecture was never, ever weird energy that we can’t quite unscathed despite generating so park, football stadium, urban park, the fastest selling London property a roll call of star architects, Lord an option. Our much-loved redbrick get our heads round. Its power And, no, it’s not just because of that much steam that Londoners dubbed eco dome, hotel and retail site. development ever. That original Foster and Frank Gehry, making metaphor of hope, vision and (you’ll have to forgive the pun) is album cover. Sure, Pink Floyd’s 1977 it ‘the cloud factory’. By 1953 it was Through the ’90s and 2000s an grand vision of the ’20s is becoming the local Nine Elms community determination is hugely precious to genuinely monumental and that Animals sleeve with its flying pig powering a fifth of London’s homes, enormous mountain of money was grander still, and there’s every one of London’s most charismatic us and we couldn’t imagine London helped burnish the urban mythology, familiar silhouette still radiates a and by ’55 the fourth and final speculatively blown in attempts to chance that Battersea Power Station neighbourhoods. The socially without it. That it still exists at all but this unique energy is much ton of complex messages that we chimney went up, completing a guarantee its future. Then in 2013 will become a 42-acre district of improving energy that’s always been should be cause for celebration, deeper and more multi-faceted than struggle to pin down. We’re not 24-year build process. The post-war that strange magic amazed us yet London in its own right. A Northern central to this building’s history has but the fact that its future looks so that. Forgive me if I sound a little sure exactly why we love it, but public sighed in admiration at its again when the site was opened Line underground extension, six powered up all over again. amazingly bright and shiny is the we’re absolutely sure we do. jingoistic here, but I believe we love futuristic control rooms, stainless to public viewing for a single day. acres of public parks, hotels, several thing that should really make us Battersea Power Station because it’s steel fittings and Italian marble walls. 40,000 people waited for five hours cultural venues, 3,900 homes plus I love the perfect Britishness of this burst out cheering. Battersea Power Back in September the development a redbrick metaphor for everything The Royal Family visited, filmmakers in two queues that stretched to millions of square feet of offices story. Innovation, ambition, tenacity, Station stands as a monumental team hosted an art exhibition at that was, is and continues to be great used it as a backdrop, The Daily Record the Albert Bridge in one direction and shops add up to £8 billion style and endurance may define reminder of the brilliance of our the neighbouring Battersea Arts about Britain. Our affection starts called it a ‘Flaming Temple of Power’ and Vauxhall in the other. You’d be quid’s worth of regeneration. Tens our national psyche, but they’re past, present and future. I adore this Centre—aptly coined ‘Battersea with the ambitious vision in the and it settled into being a familiar forgiven for thinking that redundant, of thousands of local jobs will be also the defining characteristics of glorious building and, like millions Art Station’—to celebrate the local late ’20s to democratise electricity and optimistic symbol of Britain’s roofless and rusty, our affection for created by this wave of economic Battersea Power Station.