Cathedral's Deptford plans presented
We're grateful to the Deptford Dame for letting us know about architect Lord Rogers' visit to Deptford to promote Cathedral's masterplan for the area behind the Deptford Project. They have released new images that give a much clearer idea of the proposals than previous sketches (click to enlarge).
(H/T to Luc in the BC Facebook group, who spotted how incredibly white the CGI crowd is).
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Looks great - wish that was Brockley!
It's looks pleasant enough it jars with market though, the materials look cheap, compared to the work done around the Laban centre.
oh come on its dreadful. legoland. and why not have proper paving on the carriage ramp?
It'd be great if they could make the walkway a smaller version of the highline http://www.thehighline.org/
Yes, it would!
The highline is wonderful, but the corporate structure of this is much different, this a commercially driven beastie.
Can't wait to get my mini-moto going round there.
Corporate structure, eh.. Where's that then?
This project is a public -private partnership, between Lewisham & Cathedral (based in SE1). It's a handy corporate/business structuring that enables the profits from a infrastruture project to be private but the risks public, see TFL & Metronet & Tubelines for a great example.
The High line project is more like a massive BXAG project.
£10 says the person looking for demographic issues in the crowd works in the public sector. They're first in the line for the cuts.
I know him and he doesn't.
I bet you £100 that anonymous pays that £10 you just won.
Oh and the building is a bit pink.
Everyone falls over themselves to praise Rogers' use of colour in Madrid's Airport, but they try the same trick in Deptford and it's called too pink!
http://bit.ly/uRL23R
That might be because it's a lot more sophisticated ... and a lot less pink.
I say that as a Rogers S,H fan - my favourite architects. I am lucky enought to be sitting in one of his buildings right now, and it is impeccably detailed, even if outwardly very restrained by that practice's standards.
The trademark internal colour accents here are his old school De Stijl alike primary blue/yellow/red. Rigorous modernist tradition, there.
Madrid was a brilliant riff on that.
A largely pink thing, well, it's not for me. Still, it is only a render on a masterplan.
Agreed - I had been biting my tongue (metaphorically - perhaps it's sitting on my hands) - but now others have said the same I'm with the anon who said it's a bit legoland and with Danja that it is rather too pink.
The link for the Madrid Airport just took you to the Rogers site - but I found this image online. Nice curves and a subtle rainbow effect.
The form will be impeccable (if RSH do the building.
Lego is bricks, it's more of a victorian thing. This is legoland, apparently:
http://travel.rentholidayapartmentlondon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/legolandwindsor.jpg
Seems singularly inapt to me.
Besides which Spain has a bit of a tradition of pink.
@Danja - yes, the lego / toytown style is really PoMo. Like One Poultry, etc
@ Danja "apparently" - have you never been there? Worth one visit.
And you're right it is not "legoland" - which I had picked up from someone else and had doubts even as I was typing it - but building blocks. Presumably a cost and space constraint. And they're trying too hard to compensate with colour. To my mind, just doesn't work with northern skies.
Agreed Nick - and One Poultry is very pink too.
Which is a shame, as otherwise it is about as good as PoMo gets (Minster Court and maybe the odd Piers Gough excepted).
Such a vast improvement to what already exists! please hurry and make this happen!
Are the clothes lines on the other side?
Yuh. Ghastly. Horrid. Wholly out of keeping with the area. It would wreck Deptford. Not much more to be said really, except that I do wish architects like this would stop designing buildings. What did we do to deserve them?
Yes its execrable. I wonder if some of our architectural conneiseurs would venture to live in these coloured boxes or whether sll the fun is to be had on the outside. North Peckham estate all over.
I would have have been delighted to live in something as nice as that (if it wasn't so pink) in my flat-dwelling days.
The North Peckham jibe is just nonsense. It's no bigger than many uber-posh mansion blocks.
@Danja - I'd have been delighted to live there too. Also, I quite like pink (the bright variety, rather than One Poultry's dirty pink) and the colour reminds me of the neck tie mural in the middle of Deptford. I like the trend for colourful buildings, like Piano's building by Covent Garden. Still, I can appreciate why many wouldn't.
As long as the sound proofing is in order and it's quiet for residents once the shut their doors these flats should be ok to live in.
Regarding the colour, the architects have to go for vibrant hues, can you imagine how bleak the scheme would look without them, especially given the cheap materials? It's a technique i've seen from those instant home makeover shows.
I'm astonished you can tell what materials are going to be used, and at what cost from the image.
Likening a development of this scale to DIY SOS is equally as astonishing but hey ho...
you're easily astonished...
give me strength, its the usual rubbishy nonsense plonked down in the middle of an area as apposite to this design as anyone could imagine. I suppose they'll call it a 'destination'. and what about the listed carriage ramp? and the fact that Deptford Stn is the oldest (1836) in London on the first line in London. RR would like to be remembered for his legacy of design I expect. why doesn't anyone respect the legacy of Deptford?
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