Pump House South Norwood, Croydon Apartment Building, South London Property, Architecture Photos
Pump House South Norwood, Croydon Apartments
30 November 2021
Architect: Common Ground Architecture
Location: 22 Station Road, Croydon, CR9 1DG, South London, England, United Kingdom
One of the 2021 Brick Award winners in the Housing Development Small ctegory
Pump House South Norwood, Croydon Apartments
Bricks: Ibstock and Wienerberger

photo © Jim Stephenson 2020, photos courtesy of Brick Awards / architects
Pump House South Norwood Building
Pump House reinvigorates a prominent corner plot in the centre of South Norwood by creating 14 new homes and a new library two minutes? walk from Norwood Junction Station. The site had previously been used as a surface level car park and had been vacant for nearly 30 years. It is the first residential scheme completed by Common Ground Architecture and is part of the Brick By Brick?s Smaller Sites Programme, an initiative set up in 2016 to accelerate housing delivery in Croydon.

photo © Jim Stephenson 2020
Pump House was a test bed for ideas that were developed at the same time as leading the collegiate delivery programme with seven other practices. With tough budgets, the programme is greater than the sum of its parts; we found opportunities for standardisation and economies of scale in the parts no one sees, allowing us to exceed quality expectations in this public housing programme.

photo © Jim Stephenson 2020
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