Cllr Pickard at Crystal Palace park
Plans are moving ahead to rebuild a replica of the Crystal Palace in Crystal Palace Park. Jane Pickard was at the consultation event on Saturday 1st March in the park. Jane said “If these ambitious plans are realised they will have a major impact on residents of West Norwood. The extra traffic will have to be carefully managed.”
There is a short online survey at: http://www.thelondoncrystalpalace.com/survey.html
Six renowned architects have already been shortlisted to work up more detailed plans.
The architects are:
David Chipperfield Architects http://www.davidchipperfield.co.uk/
Grimshaw http://grimshaw-architects.com/
Haworth Tomkins Architects http://www.haworthtompkins.com/
Marks Barfield Architects http://www.marksbarfield.com/#/projects/
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners http://www.rsh-p.com/rshp_home
Zaha Hadid Architects with Anish Kapoor http://www.zaha-hadid.com/ and http://anishkapoor.com/
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Looking at the list of Architects, it definitely won’t be a pastiche ‘replica’. Thank goodness. The beautiful form of the original Crystal Palace reflected the engineering and aesthetic standards of the day. However, anyone who thinks we should slavishly ‘replicate’ it imagines they’re ascribing to an irrefutable objective standard of beauty. But they’re mistaken. What they’re actually contemplating is living in the past.
I don’t want the new Crystal Palace to look like a phoney Victorian theme park, new one ought to reflect the engineering and aesthetic technologies of our time – which is the 21st Century, not the 19th.