Battersea Power Station, Circus Road North, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD

Illustration by Andrew Cadey

Battersea Power Station stands as a supreme monument of industrial Art Deco architecture. Designed in part by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the late 1920s, the steel-framed building is clad in millions of signature brown bricks laid in traditional English bond. Scott cleverly applied classical symmetry and vertical detailing, using deep brick pilasters and stepped corbelling to break up the sheer mass of the walls. This monumental brickwork terminates in four iconic, white-fluted concrete chimneys that anchor the building's corners, turning a heavy utilitarian factory into a balanced civic landmark on the London skyline.

Following decades of abandonment, the building has been completely transformed into a vibrant mixed-use destination through a masterful adaptive reuse intervention by WilkinsonEyre.

First edition limited print run of 250