Battersea Arts Centre / Haworth Tompkins

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Text description provided by the architects. Architects Haworth Tompkins have completed a 12-year transformation of the Grade II* listed Battersea Arts Centre. Begun as an extended, improvisatory collaboration with artists, theatre producers and the local community, the entire former town hall building is now in use for creative and community activity, increasing the number of performance spaces from 4 to 35 and incorporating artists’ bedrooms, a new rooftop office and staff garden, a creative business hub, a community allotment and an outdoor theatre.

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Ground Floor Plan

Architect and client worked as equal partners throughout the process, sharing design authorship and inviting creative collaborations. Following a devastating fire three years ago, the famous Grand Hall has been radically re-imagined as a 21st-century performance space, allowing the organization to host bigger productions, community celebrations and revenue generating events.

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A new bar installation by artist Jake Tilson records the evidence of the fire, as do the scarred, unrestored walls of the hall. The timber lattice ceiling borrows the decorative pattern of the original plaster vault but allows far greater technical and acoustic possibilities.

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Grand Hall Detail Section (Descriptions)
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Overall, the £13m project (excluding insurance for the Grand Hall) has enabled Battersea Arts Centre to fulfill its mission as a more resilient, more inclusive and more accessible civic space.  

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© Philip Vile

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Address:Battersea, London SW11 1RU, United Kingdom

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Cite: "Battersea Arts Centre / Haworth Tompkins" 22 Jan 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/910491/battersea-arts-centre-haworth-tompkins> ISSN 0719-8884

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