BATTERSEA POWER STATION

I visited the Battersea Power Station in London in December 2022, guided by Marco Corazza who was actually my first business partner almost 15 years ago. Marco worked on Battersea for the entire nine-year project period, focussing mainly on the heritage façade. As the biggest brick building in Europe, Battersea is an epic achievement and incredibly elegantly resolved.

The British architectural media have been critical of the shopping centre programme, which was entirely out of the architects’ control. The project is inevitably compared with the ‘other’ power station down the river, Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern and, in my opinion, stacks up very well. Apart from the adaptive reuse component, I was struck by the 19 acres of new pedestrian public space and 500 metres of new river frontage that formed part of the masterplan. Battersea is a must-visit in London!