BBC - Crystal Palace Plans Revealed

Norman Potting · Oct 3, 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24375547

OK so it might not have been what you were expecting but I have always been fascinated by this structure and would love to see it replicated.

nwgull · Oct 3, 2013

I never realised that the original structure burnt down; some things never change.

GreersElbow · Oct 3, 2013

nwgull said:
I never realised that the original structure burnt down; some things never change.

Force of habit by the locals?

portslade seagull · Oct 3, 2013

Wonder if Parish will ask to play there

Triggaaar · Oct 3, 2013

GreersElbow said:
Force of habit by the locals?

And yet Selhurst still stands.

Seagull kimchi · Oct 3, 2013

How does a glass and iron structure completely burn down? Only in Croyden....

KJP · Oct 3, 2013

This is my favourite part

"When the palace was moved there in the 1850s the newly laid out park was near countryside, but today it's an urban park with a lot of space already taken up by the national sports centre, car parks, roads and the caravan site."

seagullsovergrimsby · Oct 3, 2013

KJP said:
This is my favourite part

"When the palace was moved there in the 1850s the newly laid out park was near countryside, but today it's an urban park with a lot of space already taken up by the national sports centre, car parks, roads and the caravan site."

snigger

TWOCHOICEStom · Oct 3, 2013

It runs the risk of looking like a shopping mall unless they do it properly!

Green Cross Code Man · Oct 3, 2013

KJP said:
This is my favourite part

"When the palace was moved there in the 1850s the newly laid out park was near countryside, but today it's an urban park with a lot of space already taken up by the national sports centre, car parks, roads and the caravan site."

When I first read that, I thought someone had doctored it lol!

seagullsovergrimsby · Oct 3, 2013

Seagull kimchi said:
How does a glass and iron structure completely burn down? Only in Croyden....

Enough combustible materials inside along with an accelerant

Lush · Oct 3, 2013

TWOCHOICEStom said:
It runs the risk of looking like a shopping mall unless they do it properly!

That's probably exactly what it's going to be. And by entertainment I'm guessing they mean a cinema/bowling alley etc with a Frankie & Bennys. It's not a Crystal Palace it's another Whitgift Centre.

JamesAndTheGiantHead · Oct 3, 2013

The ZhongRong Group sounds like one of Scooby Doo's less sucessful enterprises.

northernseagull · Oct 3, 2013

On a different note where is the commercial value in rebuilding the site? £500m is a ridiculous sum of money for a heritage site!!

hans kraay fan club · Oct 3, 2013

TWOCHOICEStom said:
It runs the risk of looking like a shopping mall unless they do it properly!

To be honest, it will look like a shopping mall, if they DO replicate the original properly. It looked like the Trafford Centre.

Its a MASSIVE building building, though. If you look at pic 2/4 on the BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24375547 the smaller white building in the foreground is the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, which is itself a huge structure.

Psychobilly freakout · Oct 3, 2013

Lush said:
That's probably exactly what it's going to be. And by entertainment I'm guessing they mean a punch & Judy show, plus coconut shies etc with a cold dog stand. It's not a Crystal Palace it's another welfare centre.

There.... just edited it for you....that's more like it.

Gary Leeds · Oct 4, 2013

Im more interested in how, in the late 19th century, with no real means of transport apart from horse and cart, they managed to move a building that size from Hyde Park to there?

DavidinSouthampton · Oct 4, 2013

Norman Potting said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24375547

OK so it might not have been what you were expecting but I have always been fascinated by this structure and would love to see it replicated.

Totally agree. If it were properly done which, according to an article in the Guardian this morning seems to be the intention, it could be stunning. Apparently the locals in the past have resisted and had thrown out plans to build a shopping mall and other things on the site, so might accept something which did it justice. That sounds dangerously like "good taste" from that particular part of S.E London.

My grandparents and my father could see the flames, glow, smoke or whatever from their doorstep when it burnt down in 1936. Luckily my parents saw the light after they were married and moved eventually to GOSBTS (Worthing) when I was 15 months old, thereby enabling me to escape being a Nigel.

Seagull on the wing · Oct 4, 2013

Love some of the banter here...I was ready to leap in. But seriously it was a magnifigent achievement of Victorian engineering...replace today,fine as long as the firm stumps up the cash then fine by me.

surrey jim · Oct 4, 2013

Gary Leeds said:
Im more interested in how, in the late 19th century, with no real means of transport apart from horse and cart, they managed to move a building that size from Hyde Park to there?

Always amazed me how the Balcombe viaduct was built back in the days when there was very limited transport. You only really get the scale of it if you walk underneath.

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