Chris Dyson Architects has completed a new café in south London’s Crystal Palace Park that references recreation space’s famous grade I-listed dinosaur statues.

The two-storey lakeside building is wrapped in half-round cedar shingles, the design of which Dyson said was inspired by the scales on the Victorian-era sculptures on the opposite side of the water.

On the ground floor, the café can seat 60 customers inside with a further 50 outside. It also provides public toilets and a service kiosk. On the first floor, the building offers multi-purpose community space that can seat 60.

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