Archinect - News 2024-12-22T02:57:21-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149956610/national-trust-to-show-the-beauty-of-croydon National Trust to show the beauty of Croydon kplatzgummer 2016-07-08T03:27:00-04:00 >2016-07-18T05:26:59-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5v/5vesb4p5k63qd1hf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Bowie hated it. Peep Show besmirched it. The London suburb may get a bad rap in popular culture, but now there is the chance to see a different side. [...] Watson is helping to organise tours of Croydon taking in architectural highlights such as NLA House (now No 1 Croydon), sometimes known as the &lsquo;threepenny bit&rsquo;; [...] The National Trust is turning to Croydon after its successful tours of London&rsquo;s brutalist concrete buildings, places it argues should be cherished as much as Croydon&rsquo;s towers.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>