Vibrant Gateway Development
Gets Green Light in Croydon
13 June 2008
Berkeley Homes’ £140million residential development, designed
by Rolfe Judd architects, has received planning permission.
The scheme will be an important component in the regeneration of the town
and borough. It will provide 739 apartments in a 44 storey residential
tower and courtyard development, many of them affordable, and a new public
square.
The Romans introduced the crocus to Britain, and the name of Croydon may
have been derived from the Latin for crocus and valley. The tower’s
pixelated colour scheme reflects the hues of the purple-petal saffron
crocus with its vivid orange stigmas. The historic references are appropriate
for a tower that sits centrally at the gateway to the town, the modulating
colour suggestive of this element of Croydon’s long history.
As such, the outer surface is designed to assume quite an uncompromising
idiom folding and wrapping to form the inner enclosure which, by contrast,
is moulded in a soft, curvilinear way.
The design dictates a dialogue between two realms, outer and inner, and
creates a dramatic backdrop for the resulting landscaped courtyard.
Croydon Gateway Development information / images from Stratton &
Reekie 130608
Gateway Development London - Professional Team:
Client: Berkeley Homes
Architect: Rolfe Judd
Quantity Surveyor: Jones Lang LaSalle
Structural Engineers: Waterman Group
M&E Engineers: RYB Konsult
Interiors: Rolfe Judd Interiors
Gateway Development Architect:
Rolfe Judd
is a successful team of highly skilled architects, planners and interior
designers. Founded in 1968, Rolfe Judd is now a second-generation practice,
which is design led and has a deserved reputation for innovation and quality
of delivery.
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