Croydon: one of London’s more surreal urban experiences

By 2011-05-20T08:05:00

No 1 Croydon (formerly the 50p Building or NLA Tower) was built by R Seifert & Partners in 1970.

Source: Laura Oldfield Ford

Grand ambitions and patchy execution are a recipe for urban misery in the London Borough of Croydon, the Mini-Manhattan of the South-east

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