Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an unrealized urban masterplan by Le Corbusier, first presented in 1924 and published in a book of the same name in 1933. Designed to contain effective means of transportation, as well as an abundance of green space and sunlight, Le Corbusier’s city of the future would not only provide residents with a better lifestyle, but would contribute to creating a better society. Though radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order, symmetry and standardization, Le Corbusier’s proposed principles had an extensive influence on modern urban planning and led to the development of new high-density housing typologies.
巴特西发电站(Battersea Power Station)曾是一座燃煤发电厂,位于伦敦泰晤士河南岸,最初由建筑师 J. Theo Halliday 和 Giles Gilbert Scott 设计。该发电站因作为平克·弗洛伊德(Pink Floyd)1977年录音室专辑《Animals》的封面以及出现在阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克(Alfred Hitchcock)1936年的电影《破坏》(Sabotage)中而闻名,是世界上最大的砖体建筑之一,并以其装饰艺术风格(Art Deco)的内部装置和装饰而著称。如今,这里已被视为现代工业遗产的一部分。该地块向商业开发项目的转型始于2012年,其自适应再利用方案由 拉斐尔·维诺里(Rafael Viñoly)设计的总体规划所引导。2月16日,巴特西发电站宣布启用战略性城市设计事务所 Studio Egret West,以对伦敦西南部这一占地42英亩的滨河社区中剩余的16英亩土地进行原有总体规划的深化设计。