The City Architecture Forum is a membership group for anyone interested in the architecture, urban design, public realm and planning of the City of London.

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City Architecture Forum 2025 Annual Dinner

Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

The Mercer , 34 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AY

Join the City Architecture Forum on Wednesday 5th November for 2025 Annual Dinner.

Taking place at The Mercer on Threadneedle Street this year we will hear from our two guest speakers:

Tom Sleigh,Chair of the Planning and Transportation Committee at the City of London Corporation Robin Dobson, recently confirmed as the Chief Executive of Platform4 the new company created by HM Government to unlock the delivery of surplus railway land across the country.

If purchasing multiple tickets in your name, please log back in to your Eventbrite account and provide details of guests; name, email, dietary requirements, organisation, and job title by 27th October 2025.

Insights

Reflections on the Talk: 85 Gracechurch Street

By Matthew Thomas

Architecture is at its most compelling when it not only responds to context but actively reshapes it, carrying the past into the present while opening doors to the future. Last Tuesday’s talk on 85 Gracechurch Street delivered on this, offering an inspiring glimpse into a landmark scheme that sits at...

TBC . London: going for green and social impact

By Lee Mallett

What is probably the best view of the City core’s cluster, CAF members agreed on their recent tour, is now available from the northern roof terrace of TBC.London – an environmentally and socially impactful remodelling of an unlovely 1980s building at 224-226 Tower Bridge Road, south-east of Tower Bridge that...

‘Destination in the sky’ – One Undershaft

By Lee Mallett

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The sudden emptying of streets in the Pandemic meant ‘we started to think harder about the human elements of the City in that pause’, said Eric Parry, newly minted CBE in this year’s Birthday Honours, introducing One Undershaft to Forum members and guests at his practice’s Old Street offices. Having...

Mid Year Review 2025: Reading the heartbeat of the Square Mile

By David Magyar

As I pondered possible themes and topics for this half year report, I cast an eye over the events we have held in the first six months of 2025 and began to think about what linked them, and how they characterise what the Forum aims to do. The roster –...

40 Leadenhall: More of the Metropolis

By Richard Golding

Image courtesy of Make Architects On a sun-drenched afternoon in early April, members of the City Architecture Forum filtered through the thirsty Leadenhall Market to arrive at an exclusive tour of 40 Leadenhall. A striking and unavoidable new presence on the City’s skyline and one of the most ambitious commercial...

Bishopsgate Goodsyard: Where the buddleia reigns… for now

By Lee Mallett

“East is best, the West is the rest” was a saying in Shoreditch’s artist-led renaissance back in the 1990s, affirmation that a new place was emerging. We’re talking pre-Tea Building and way before Shoreditch House opened in 2007 – when nearly all buildings in Hoxton Square were vacant. Times were...

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