Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
- Veterinary Hospital & Centre of Excellence

London, SW8

This new-build hospital and office building replaced an outdated four storey kennel building and was a key part of the redevelopment of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home site adjacent to Battersea Power Station. The 4,000m2 building comprises of a new state of the art veterinary clinic on the ground and first floor levels plus six levels of training facilities and office floors with a lecture theatre and boardrooms at top floor level.

Vibrant and colourful glazed terracotta cladding is used to give the building a stand out shimmering quality on this very important site. Different shades of blue originating from the charity’s corporate colours are arranged in a pixelated fashion rising from dark blues to lighter shades of blue through to a very pale shade of blue/grey at the top to create the effect of the building disappearing into the sky.

This was a particularly complex project to build as a result of very restricted access to the site, which is surrounded, on all sides by two mainline railway tracks (into Victoria) and the existing re-homing kennels building plus the Northern Line extension tunnels immediately below. Extensive negotiations were required with TfL in respect of the tunnels and Network Rail due to the nearest rail track being only 3.6 metres away from the new building itself.

This building was officially opened by the Duchess of Cornwall.