Battersea Arts Centre
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Our role
Since 2014, Martin Long has been involved in a voluntary capacity offering his construction management services on various phases of the Victorian building’s refurbishment and redevelopment.
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Project details
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is housed in a Grade II* listed former town hall in south west London. It is widely regarded as an important hub for UK performing arts and the building itself has a remarkable political history.
In 2007 BAC embarked upon an ambitious phased £13 million programme to renew and restore the treasured Victorian building. Working with award winning theatre architects Haworth Tompkins to improve public and performance spaces and accessibility. In 2015 a fire devastated the much loved Grand Hall and thanks to a series of public sector grants, this was sensitively restored and reopened to great acclaim in 2018. The final phase of works involved the restoration of Town Hall Road.
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Statistics
- Location: Lavender Hill, London
- Budget: £13 million
- Dates: 2014-2018
- Project Team:
Architect: Haworth Tompkins
Contractor: 8Build, Ashe Construction, Gilbert-Ash
Structural engineer: Price & Myers
Services engineer: Skelly & Couch, XC02
Theatre consultant: Theatreplan, Charcoalblue
QS: Bristow Johnson
Acoustic engineer: Gilleron Scott, Sound Space Design - Awards:
Overall Winner, NLA Awards 2020
Community Prize, NLA Awards 2020
Theatre Building of the Year, The Stage Awards 2019 (Haworth Tompkins)
RIBA London Award 2019 (Haworth Tompkins)
RIBA London Client of the Year Award 2019 (Battersea Arts Centre)
RIBA National Award 2019 (Haworth Tompkins)
Chicago Athenaeum, International Architecture Award 2019 (Haworth Tompkins)
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