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Cedar-clad cafe inspired by Crystal Palace ‘dinosaurs’


Chris Dyson Architects have completed a new cafe in south London’s Crystal Palace Park. The distinctive two-storey building comprises a cafe and terrace at ground level, and a community space at first floor level. Wrapped in half-round cedar shingles, the design references the scaly skin of the Grade I-listed dinosaur sculptures at the opposite end of the lake.


Funded by the Mayor of London, the cafe forms part of a package of


improvement and conservation works proposed for the wider park. Income generated by the new cafe will be used to fund improvements throughout the park, including the ongoing conservation of the iconic dinosaur sculptures and geological illustrations within the park. The new building’s orientation is perpendicular to the park’s central axis, located at a key point that allows, for the


first time, an ‘accessible-for-all’ connection between the central axis and the lakeside path. Additional pathways and planting “help frame the building and terrace in the surrounding landscape,” said the architects, with deciduous trees chosen to “invoke a strong autumnal colour and provide a visual connection to the existing trees of the park.”


The cafe has four “active facades,” with large amounts of glazing providing light and airy interior spaces as well as expansive, panoramic views of the dinosaur models and wider park. The first-floor terrace is connected via a footbridge to the lakeside path, improving the building’s connectivity, while a chimneystack in black brick acts as a wayfinding landmark within the park.


ADF DECEMBER 2019


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