Architecture: Our Building’s Past, Present and Future

Battersea Arts Centre Architecture: past, present and future Battersea Arts Centre, 24 June 2015

Aileen Reid Survey of London Bartlett School of Architecture University College London

Tithe map of Battersea (detail), 1838, Š National Archives

St Mary, Battersea, interior and exterior

Lammas Hall, Westbridge Road (demolished), 1858 Photographed following conversion to branch library c. 1900 (left , Š Wandsworth Heritage Service) and 1912 (below, , Š Aileen Reid)

Thomas Memorial Church of the Nazarene, 68a Battersea Rise – Formerly Battersea Vestry Hall and Wandsworth District Board of Works Building 1 © Aileen Reid 2 © Wandsworth Heritage Service 3 © Survey of London UCL

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Battersea and New Wandsworth public hall (Arding & Hobbs site), 1882-3 (not built)

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Henry Cheere’s 2nd placed design in the competition for the new Battersea Town Hall, 1891 Š Wandsworth Heritage Service

Old Bailey, 1902-7 EW Mountford (1855-1908)

Below: Northampton Institute (now City University), St John Street, EC1, 1894-6 EW Mountford © Historic England Archives

Above: Booth’s Distillery, Clerkenwell, 1901-3 (re-erected in Britton St, EC1, 1977) EW Mountford © Historic England Archives

Battersea Baptist Chapel, Northcote Road EW Mountford, 1888

Battersea Polytechnic, Battersea Park Rd EW Mountford, 1891 all Š Historic England Archives

Sheffield Town Hall, 1890-4 EW Mountford

Mountford’s competition-winning plan for the New Battersea Town Hall (not quite as built)

EW Mountford’s designs for the main staircase of the New Battersea Town Hall and the Town Hall Road elevation

Mosaic pavement by Jesse Rust and Main staircase, Battersea Arts Centre, Photographed in 2009

Battersea Town Hall council chamber c. 1965 Š Historic England Archives

Committee room in Battersea Town Hall c 1965, and Main staircase c. 1900, with light fittings deisgned by EW Mountford

Detail of plasterwork by Gilbert Seale above main staircase and the octagonal hall, the entrance to the main hall, showing the plaster figures Zephyr and Aurora and Dancing Girl Reposing, by William Calder Marshall

‘Authority’ on main front, by Horace and Paul Raphael Mountford c Historic England Archives

Paul Raphael Montford (1868-1930)

Main hall at Battersea Arts Centre, showing the organ and stage, photographed in 2009 before the catastrophic fire of March 2015

Aerial view of Battersea Arts Centre, c. 2008, and, right, The original gallery in the main hall, replaced 1936 Š Wandsworth Heritage Service

Interior of the lower hall at Battersea Arts Centre with Decorations by Henry Hyams From 1926, photographed in 2009 before the catastrophic Fire of March 2015

Battersea Arts Centre Architecture: past, present and future Battersea Arts Centre, 24 June 2015

Imogen Long Haworth Tompkins Battersea Arts Centre’s Architects

Staff hub Photovoltaics to flat roof area Terrace around coutyard at G+2 level

Attic performance spaces

G+2

Insulation and repairs to existing roofs

Bedrooms for artists at G+2 level

Insulation to Grand Hall roof

Double glazing to windows New dressing room and wc facilities Circulation around courtyard opened up with access to courtyard at G+1 level

G+1 G-1 not shown

Continuous first floor performance environment Woodburning stoves to two rooms

Platform lift between G-2 and G-1 level

Large passenger lift linking G-1 to G+2 levels

Foyer reconfigured and refurbished

Workshops to west wing

Start up base at Lower Hall level

Circulation around courtyard opened up

Lower Hall refurbished G-2

Courtyard performance space

Grand Hall dome restored

Bees Knees children’s space G+0

Bedrooms for artists at G-1 and G+0 level

Foyer and bar refurbished and opened up

Fabric repairs to external envelope

New accessible entrance and signage to Lavender Hill

Town Hall Road relandscaped

New accessible entrance and signage to bar

performance

circulation/foyer

tech/storage

office

home

‘ACE works’

HLF works

Renew works

LOWER HALL LEVEL

GRAND HALL LEVEL

GROUND FLOOR LEVEL

FIRST FLOOR LEVEL

SECOND FLOOR LEVEL

ROOF LEVEL