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Vinoly unveils Battersea masterplan
Uruguay Architecture News - Jun 23, 2008 - 11:53 3985 views
The scheme for Real Estate Opportunities {REO}, which is managed byIrish-based developer Treasury Holdings, includes a huge Eco domecovering 250,000m2 of offices with its own 300m-high `chimney`.
Giles Gilbert Scott`s Grade II-listed power station overlooking theRiver Thames will be turned into apartments, a hotel and `leisuredestination` – a scheme which is itself worth an estimated £100 million.
There are also plans to build a swathe of flats across the rest of the13ha site and a new Tube station linking the site – which has had atroubled history since the power station closed 35 years ago – to theNorthern line.
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