{"id":24908,"date":"2019-12-26T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=24908"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:14:19","slug":"with-the-first-flat-in-the-iconic-battersea-power-station-complete-you-can-take-a-look-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=24908","title":{"rendered":"With the first flat in the \u2018iconic\u2019 Battersea Power Station complete, you can take a look inside!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Plenty of property developers try to brand their latest apartment block as \u2018iconic,\u2019 which, nice as many of them are, is usually a bit of a stretch, observes CITY A.M., but it reckons the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station into 253 luxury flats and a new headquarters for Apple doesn\u2019t have that problem…<\/h3>\n

image: for illustration Alberto Pascual, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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CITY A.M. writes:<\/p>\n

Other than a three-year hiatus from 2015 while the damaged columns were replaced, its towers have been a stalwart of London\u2019s skyline since the 1930s and have featured in everything from Hitchcock films to The Beatles\u2019 Help! to a Pink Floyd album cover.<\/p>\n

But when you redevelop such an iconic building, there is pressure to create something worthy of the structure it inhabits.<\/p>\n

So what do the new flats look like? City A.M took a tour of the first apartment to be completed within the original grade II*-listed power station with designer Tim Boyd of Michaelis Boyd \u2013 which also designed the interiors for Soho House and the Groucho Club \u2013 and Battersea Power Station\u2019s UK sales director Georgia Siri.<\/p>\n

The apartment is situated on the second floor of the old Turbine Hall A, on the Western side of the power station. Boyd says there were 174 different floor plans for the 253 apartments, because there were so many parts of the building\u2019s structure that could not be altered due to it being listed. \u2018The floor plans had to be tailored to the building \u2013 these are not a cookie cutter apartments,\u2019 he says. Most of the flats have long been sold, but when they came on the market in 2013 one-beds like this one started from \u00a31m, while four-bed family homes started from \u00a34m.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the art deco \u2018glory years\u2019
\n<\/strong>The original 1930s brickwork and steelwork are exposed, and the industrial theme is continued in the floor-to-ceiling crittal windows and cast-iron column radiators, which are painted black. The apartment was dressed by th2designs. There are two colour palettes for buyers to choose from: Heritage 33 and Heritage 47. The power station was designed in two parts, and the palettes reflect those two eras. Heritage 33, on display in this apartment, uses bold materials and textures inspired by the power station\u2019s art deco glory years when it produced more than a fifth of London\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n

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The first flat in Battersea Power Station is now complete \u2013\u00a0we take a look inside<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n