Marlon Tate

Pollard Thomas Edwards has been working with Countryside Properties and Newlon on the regeneration of the 1960s Alma Estate in Ponders End, Enfield. In collaboration with the architects, Marlon Tate created tile-based murals for the Ponders End Youth Centre by drawing upon old PC pixelated video games and early 2000s street art.

Led by our creative director Nikos Georgopoulos, who also heads up the graphics team at PTE, the concept for the tiled lower-half of the façade was to illustrate the range of activities offered inside in a way that would culturally resonate with the new community. The tile-based mural represents sport figures like tennis players, dancers, drummers and boxers as well as aspirational typographic messages.