2020 Digital Lecture Series: Dan Burr – Citicape House

Citicape House, a hospitality-led, mixed-use project, is characterised by the largest green wall in Europe, creating a distinctive architectural addition to a gateway City of London site, while absorbing eight tonnes of pollution annually and setting the standard for urban greening in London. Dan Burr (Sheppard Robson) takes us through how the building can address pertinent issues such as air quality, climate change and air pollution.

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2020 Digital Lecture Series: 81 Newgate Street

By City Architecture Forum

81 Newgate Street, the former BT Headquarters, is an exciting transformation project in the heart of the City. John Bushell (Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates) discusses the scheme, which will transform a monolithic 1980’s office block into a sustainable, mixed-use building that is embedded in the wider public life of the...

Behind the Scenes: Urbanest City

By Ross Hutchinson

On the 28th of March 2023 I had the great pleasure of joining the CAF’s tour of Urbanest’s Emperor House development on Vine Street, in the City of London. It was a project that I was unfamiliar with, designed by a practice whose work I used to know well when...

A Visit to Panorama St Paul’s

By Russell Whitehead

Panorama St Paul’s is an ambitious adaptive reuse project developed by Orion, transforming a substantial office building in the heart of London. Before visiting, I had heard a bit about the project from the architects, and chat in the market – particularly around HSBC’s pre-let – so was wondering what...