Battersea Power Station, history at the service of renewal

After a decade of work carried out by the Malaysian consortium formed by Sime Darby Property, S P Setia, PNB and The Employees' Provident Fund, Battersea Power Station reopened its doors last October. "The opportunity to build a new 42-acre waterfront community in London's Zone 1 is extremely rare due to the lack of undeveloped land," explains Simon Murphy, CEO of Battersea Power Station Development Company. Add to this the restoration and transformation of the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station, set along a 450 m stretch of the River Thames and now linked by a new subway station, and it's extremely difficult to find another site in London with the same potential." Divided into eight phases, the program began with Circus West Village, designed by SimpsonHaugh and de Rijke Marsh Morgan. Delivered in 2017, this first phase saw the creation of 865 apartments as well as numerous bars, restaurants and leisure facilities. Power Station, the second phase, saw the refurbishment of the power station itself, designed by WilkinsonEyre as a mixed-use real estate complex. Its Turbine Halls now house over 100 stores, bars and restaurants, while the main building, the Boiler House, offers 46,000^m2 of office space occupied by Apple's London headquarters, 254 apartments, as well as a range of events and leisure facilities. Opposite the power station, Foster + Partners and Gehry Partners were selected following an international competition to collaborate on the third phase. Electric Boulevard, a pedestrian street, is set to become "our dynamic new town center", according to Simon Murphy.