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National coverage for Croydon's planners
Published: 2010-03-01 10:14:57
Last Sunday (February 28th) the Observer newspaper ran a feature on Croydon's planning team.
Entitled "Suburban regeneration", the piece began: "Croydon gave the world Kate Moss, but can it ever be sexy? An exciting team of young planners are set to revive the south London suburb and blaze a trail for all British towns."
Describing Croydon's planning team, and how it is shaping the borough, author and critic Rowan Moore wrote: "They embody the attitude of many young architects, which is to take things as you find them rather than impose a grand plan, and to find the spirit of the place, even if that place is not particularly charming.
"In the 18th century, Capability Brown talked of genius loci in the design of landscapes. These contemporary architects apply the same attitude to office blocks, rather than hills and woods. They also think there's something good about suburbs, in contrast with older architects such as Lord Rogers, for whom dense, Barcelona-like cities are everything."