Battersea Power Station: The Architectural Rebirth of a Romantic Ruin is the definitive process account of WilkinsonEyre's work to transform one of the world's largest brick structures — decommissioned in 1983 and left derelict for nearly four decades — into the sustainable heart of a new London district.
About This Book
Few adaptive reuse projects carry the cultural weight of Battersea Power Station. Originally designed in the 1930s and decommissioned in 1983, the Grade II Listed building stood in critical disrepair for almost forty years before reopening in 2022. This publication documents WilkinsonEyre's architectural and engineering processes in full — from the formidable structural challenges of repairing a building of this scale to the design decisions that shaped its transformation into a mixed-use urban district. For practitioners working in heritage conservation and urban regeneration, it is an unusually candid record of how a project of this complexity is actually resolved.
Key Features
- 184 pages of project documentation, process drawings, and photography
- Contributions from WilkinsonEyre, architects of the regeneration project
- Case study: repair and adaptive reuse of Battersea Power Station, London
- Published by Oro Editions, 2022
What You'll Discover
- How nearly forty years of neglect shaped the architectural brief and the constraints WilkinsonEyre inherited
- The engineering and conservation challenges specific to repairing a Grade II Listed structure of this mass and complexity
- The design thinking behind converting a decommissioned industrial landmark into a sustainable mixed-use district
- WilkinsonEyre's documented methodology — process drawings and decisions made visible across 184 pages
About the Author
WilkinsonEyre is a London-based architectural practice with an international reputation for technically complex and design-led projects. The firm has received numerous RIBA awards and is recognised for its expertise in both new-build and heritage transformation projects.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 184
- Dimensions: 25 x 25 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781961856851
- Publisher: Oro Editions
- Publication Date: 2022
Perfect For: Architects and engineers engaged with adaptive reuse, heritage conservation practitioners, urban regeneration researchers, and those drawn to the long afterlife of industrial landmarks.