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For over a century the Greenwich Generating Station has been powering our city and adapting to London’s growing energy demand and technological advances. This piece of industrial heritage now deserves a new lease of life.
Cycle for London (a proposed subsidiary of TfL) would take on the modernisation of cycling infrastructure and lead the campaign to get Londoners to ‘cycle for London’ towards a more sustainable future for the city, for its residents, and for London’s chances of becoming net zero.
The Cycle for London Centre is a mixed-use office and retail proposal that will continue to power, and empower the city, now with renewable energy sources. The scheme will transform the existing building into the headquarters for CfL’s operations as well as create a community hub with a cycling bridge across the Thames cutting through the site and forming an internal streetscape with retail and services opportunities.
Moment Perspective of the building’s primary artery. The main ramp and light-weight gangways enable variable flow speeds and access to alternate office & retail zones.
Exploded Isometric of the existing building showing the various structural systems part of the original construction of the Engine Room and Boiler House.
Section fragment through the short axis of the retrofitted building showing internal occupancy of the offices, shops, and the Bike Factory.
Studies of the site’s electricity demand and generation. The reconfigured roof structure is optimised for PV generation whilst hydro energy is produced by the bridge piers.
Moment Perspective of the cable-stayed cycle bridge crossing the Thames into the building. The main spans act as balanced cantilevers, rotating to allow large vessels to pass.