Have your say on plans for the new Crystal Palace
You may have heard that a Chinese company, the ZhongRong Group, is seeking to reconstruct the Crystal Palace and to renovate the park. Six renowned architectural practices – some of the biggest names in the world of architecture – have been shortlisted in the next stage of the competition to select an architect to design the new Crystal Palace. The shortlisted architects are:
David Chipperfield Architects
Grimshaw
Haworth Tompkins Architects
Marks Barfield Architects
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Zaha Hadid Architects with Anish Kapoor
The developers are interested in hearing views of local people before their proposals are finalised. You can complete their survey at: http://www.thelondoncrystalpalace.com/survey.html
A video of the presentation and audios of the two Q&A sessions held on 3 March are available here
For more on the history of the Great Exhibition, you can watch the video ‘A day at the Great Exhibition’ here
Other pages on the Great Exhibition are here