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| Named College Road, the building is made up of two adjoining 50 and 35-storey towers wrapped in a pleated ceramic facade. |
New 1,725 mid-century apartments in East Croydon address housing shortages
GUEST BLOG / Repost by Amy Peacock from Dezeen architecture and design online magazine--British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 535-foot apartment building in Croydon, UK, that it claims is "Europe's tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods".
Named College Road, the building is made up of two adjoining 50 and 35-storey towers wrapped in a pleated ceramic facade.
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| Modular construction yielded 1,725 apartments to help ease the region’s housing crunch. |
HTA Design worked with developer Tide to complete the project and it was built from 1,725 volumetric modular units that were placed around a concrete core and above a concrete foundation. HTA Design aimed to create a building that utilised modular construction, but has an appearance that was built on Croydon's architectural heritage.
"The main concept for College Road is to take Croydon’s iconic mid-century modern heritage and reinvent it for 21st-century city living, using world leading volumetric technology and new housing typologies to address London area's housing shortage," HTA Design partner Simon Toplis told Dezeen.
CLICK HERE for the complete Dezeen article.
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| Construction crane in distance sits atop new College Road Apartments in E. Croydon, UK. |
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East Croydon is nine miles south of London via tube from Waterloo Station. |
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