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