Centered around Queen’s Gardens, a community-designed public park by Grant Associates, Queen’s Quarter comprises four blocks of 35, 31, 19, and 13 stories at the center of Croydon London offering market-price and affordable units. Residential developer HUB and Bridges Fund Management are both driving the project, which contains a creative hub in its 35-story-tower called The Fold, design by Morrow+Lorraine. Shared lounges, coworking spaces, washrooms, kitchenette, and commuter facilities as well as a rooftop terrace are offered to tenants. Queen’s Gardens has been updated to improve accessibility with and biodiversity with new tree-species through a co-design process that included locals. Over 1,500 locals were incorporated into the planning and development of the scheme overall.
The Queen’s Quarter site was home to council headquarters Taberner House from 1967 until 2013, when employees moved into the adjacent Bernard Weatherill House and the site was earmarked for regeneration.
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