Rafael Vinoly, the architect behind the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, is to draw up plans for Chelsea Football Club’s proposed stadium on the site at Battersea, SW8.
Vinoly is to work alongside fellow architect Kohn Pedersen Fox on proposals for Chelsea FC’s 60,000-seat stadium to the south-east of the power station, along with hotels and shops within the building.
Last month, Chelsea FC appointed Mike Hussey’s Almacantar as development partner as part of its plans to move from Stamford Bridge to Battersea Power Station.
However, Wandsworth council’s planning chairman, Nick Cuff, told Estates Gazette last week that any buyer of the site will have to work around the existing vision for the area.
He said: “It is very difficult to see an occupier like Chelsea delivering around that vision.”
Vinoly’s appointment comes just weeks after Ernst & Young was appointed administrator to four companies that own the iconic power station and surrounding land. The companies are subsidiaries of a holding company, which is 54% owned by Treasury Holdings’ Real Estate Opportunities.
The Uruguayan architect was hired in April 2007 by Treasury Holdings to deliver a masterplan for the revised proposals for the power station and its 38-acre site.
annabel.dixon@estatesgazette.com
