Better Barkingside Architect DK-CM

摘要

How do you improve an outer London high street that is, commercially speaking, in rude health and in no desperate need of improvement? Scores of declining town centres around the country would love to have the problems of Barkingside, in the London Borough of Redbridge but historically of Essex. It's not super-prosperous but it is getting along nicely: Alan Sugar of Apprentice fame is a big property owner round here. No, the challenge here was the way mid 1960s civic buildings were dropped in when the Greater London Council was created. It is these that the practice of David Knight and Christina Monteiro, DK-CM, has tackled - in a successfully accretive manner that can also be seen in part as post modernism 4.0.