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The iconic power station, built in two phases between 1947 and 1963, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It consisted of a stunning turbine hall, 35 metres high and 152 metres long, with the boiler house alongside it and a single central chimney.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM (* 9. November 1880 in Hampstead; † 8. Februar 1960 in London) war ein britischer Architekt. Er ist bekannt für Gebäude wie die Liverpool Cathedral, die Kraftwerke Bankside Power Station und Battersea Power Station oder die Bibliothek der Universität Cambridge. Außerdem hat er als Sieger eines Design ...
7 de jul. de 2013 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was the third generation of his family to enter the architectural profession: his grandfather, Sir George Gilbert Scott, designed the controversial, High Gothic Albert Memorial, while his father George Gilbert Scott Jr. was famous for a series of churches in London and Yorkshire that bridged Victorian gothic and the arts and crafts movement. Despite his early promising ...
5 de abr. de 2018 · George Gilbert Scott junior (middle Scott), 1839 - 97. George junior’s output was small and a number of his major works were destroyed in the war but his son Giles consider him. ‘a genius – a far better architect than my grandfather…..’. A scholar at Eton, George worked for seven years in his father’s office before going, at the ...
23 de jun. de 2020 · Sir Giles Gilbert Scott OM RA FRIBA (1880-1960) was the grandson of the famous Victorian architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott, who was responsible for the Albert Memorial and St Pancras station. Giles has to his credit such notable landmarks as Liverpool Cathedral (1902-10), Battersea Power Station (1929), and Waterloo Bridge (completed in 1945 ...
9 de nov. de 2020 · Today’s Google Doodle is celebrating the life of British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, on what would have been his 140th birthday.
St Giles, Camberwell was designed by Scott & Moffat in 1842-4. The small medieval parish church of Camberwell had been much “improved” by eighteenth-century windows and appears to have had a small modern apse rather than its medieval chancel. It was the sort of thing that Scott or one of the other Gothic giants would have restored and ...
