LDA Design has completed a children’s playground in the shadow of the grade II*-listed Battersea Power Station, described by practice director Benjamin Walker as another piece of the area’s regeneration “jigsaw”.

Prospect Park was officially opened by Mayor of Wandsworth Richard Field earlier this month. The park, which is overlooked by Gehry Partners’ five-building Prospect Place development and Giles Gilbert Scott’s repurposed cathedral of industry, was designed by LDA to be deliberately playful and colourful.

Walker said LDA had been working as part of the transformation team regenerating the area for a decade.

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