A new double-tower skyscraper in Croydon, which has structures of 44 and 38 storeys and will contain 546 flats as well as ground-floor shops.
A huge 44-storey block of more than 540 flats is going to be built opposite East Croydon Station, on the site of the vacant former Essex House. The new double-tower skyscraper, which has structures of 44 and 38 storeys, will contain 546 flats as well as ground-floor shops and offices. Two rooftop gardens for residents on the 27th and 43rd floor, as well as an enclosed winter garden on the mezzanine floor, are additionally included in the proposal. The tower is set to be the world’s largest prefabricated building and will overtake 43-storey Saffron Square as the tallest building in Croydon, though there are plans for an even taller 68-storey tower in Lansdowne Road. The current tallest prefabricated building in the world is a 32-storey block called 461 Dean, which is in New York. Rather than being built on-site like a traditional skyscraper, it will be made up of 546 prefabricated concrete cubes which would be shipped to the site and stacked to form the flats around the tower’s core structure Essex House, which was built in 1961 and used to house the headquarters of British Rail, was demolished in 1998 and the plot has remained vacant ever since.
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