Battersea Power Station Development Company today unveiled Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners-designed plans for the 1,300-home third phase of the South London scheme.
The project is the first permanent development in London by Gehry Partners.
Phase three is a key part of the regeneration of the Battersea Power Station site, SW8, and will feature a new high street for London, to be known as Electric Boulevard.
This will be the main gateway to the Battersea development, connecting the Northern Line extension station with the power station itself, and is at the heart of the new community being created on the 42-acre site.
The third phase will comprise more than 1,300 homes in a range of sizes and styles in two zones on either side of the boulevard.
The plans also include a 160-bedroom hotel and 350,000 sq ft of shops and restaurant space plus additional leisure space.
Gehry Partners’ previous projects include the Guggenheim in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the practice’s home city of Los Angeles.
Foster + Partners’ projects include 30 St Mary Axe, EC3 , the British Museum, WC1, and the Reichstag, the new German parliament in Berlin.
Rob Tincknell, chief executive of the Battersea Power Station Development Company, said: “Phase three is an important part of our plans for the power station site, creating a new thoroughfare which will be at the heart of the new vibrant community. We are determined to create a genuine sense of place, and developing landmark buildings in which people are proud to make their home and work in is vital to us achieving that aim.”
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said: “Battersea Power Station is an iconic site and the unveiling of this exciting new design by Frank Gehry and Foster + Partners will ensure the development of this former industrial site will put Battersea on the world stage once again.
“The plans for a new high street for the capital show that London continues to attract the best in terms of architecture, design and innovation.”
The Battersea Power Station masterplan, designed by Rafael Vinoly, comprises more than 3,400 homes as well as offices, shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, community and leisure facilities and 18 acres of open space.
Work began on phase one of the development, known as Circus West, in July 2013, while work on the restoration of the Grade II* listed power station itself is gathering pace, with the reconstruction of the first of the iconic chimneys to the original specifications set to start shortly.
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