With an iconic tower extending 44 storeys over the skyline as one of its six buildings, the Saffron Square development has quickly become one of Croydon’s most recognisable landmarks. It sits on the Wellesley Road gateway, benefiting from numerous transport links via rail, tram and road. It boasts commercial and retail space as well as private residential studios, one-to-three bed apartments and luxurious penthouses. An innovative design, using part post-tensioned and part traditional reinforced concrete, was used to keep the structure simple and floor slabs as thin as possible. Walsh was responsible for the design of the tower structure above Level 2. We kept the reinforcement simple, but lean. A turnaround of one week per floor was achieved, a groundbreaking feat for a tower of this size.