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Philip Lancashire created Tideway Yard, Mortlake, from a redundant
power station and Council Depot in Barnes, South West London,
following Richmond Borough Council’s competition to find an
architect. The brief was to keep the best of the existing buildings,
to include some new housing and to provide space where small new
businesses could set up and flourish.
To create more useable space inside the old depot buildings, an iron
walkway was created. In keeping with Philip Lancashire’s ethos of
using reclaimed materials, the cast iron columns supporting this
structure were salvaged from the County Stand at Aintree racecourse
in Liverpool.
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The original turbine hall of the old Power Station now houses the
local youth club and also contains some imposing reminders of its
heavy industrial past.
This example
of sympathetic urban regeneration has won numerous awards:
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First
Prize in The Best Refurbished Waterside Development in the
UK
since 1985, Jackson-Stops and Staff and Estate Gazette
Commercial Property Awards.
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The
Times/RIBA Community Architecture Award, presented by HRH The
Prince of Wales
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The
Business in the Community Conservation Award presented by the
Director General of the CBI
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Times
/RICS Conservation Award
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