When in 1977 the English rock band Pink Floyd flew its famous inflatable pigs amid the chimneys of Battersea, part of the power station – built in two phases under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott, author too of the plant that is now Tate Mo
In 1983, the year Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, the radical architect Cedric Price drew up a provocative proposal for what to do with the gargantuan brick hulk. The London building’s silhouette of four slender white chimneys rising from
Having worked with Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Michael Hopkins before setting up his own practice in 1983, the British architect in 1999 partnered with Jim Eyre in establishing the firm Wilkinson Eyre, a two-time winner of the RIBA's Stirling