2020 Digital Lecture Series: Great Arthur House

By City Architecture Forum
June 2020

Originally designed in 1956 as part of the Golden Lane Estate by Chamberlin Powell and Bon for the City of London Corporation, this iconic Grade II Listed Building was a hugely influential post-war housing development, with unusual views into The Barbican, their best known work. John Robertson (John Robertson Architects) explores the sympathetic refurbishment of one of the City's exemplary residential developments which took extensive consultation with leaseholders and tenants, Historic England, The 20th Century Society and the City Planners.

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2020 Digital Lecture Series: 50 Fenchurch Street

By City Architecture Forum

Eric Parry RA – 50 Fenchurch Street Tuesday, 16 June 2020 50 Fenchurch Street is an exciting new City of London development proposed by The Clothworkers’ Company. Eric Parry RA (Eric Parry Architects) discuss’ the scheme, which includes a new office building, Livery Hall for The Clothworkers’ Company, public roof...

2021 End of Year Review

By Andrew Reynolds

Sadly it looks as if the concluding headlines for 2021 will, like those for 2020, be dominated by COVID and its variants. Despite this depressing turn of events, 2021 has been a year of significant progress for the City of London and in turn for its built environment, and the...

A New Museum for London pt II

By Lee Higson

On a crisp and sunny February afternoon, a privileged group of 10 CAF members assembled at West Smithfields in anticipation of an early glimpse of the new Museum of London spaces as they begin to take shape. We were met by Museum Director Sharon Ament and Stephanie Kirkness from Museum...