Tour: Angel Square – reinventing a complex urban site

Join City Architecture Forum for an architect-led tour of Angel Square, a major mixed-use development by Tishman Speyer, designed by AHMM, that reimagines a prominent corner site in Islington. Built over Angel tube station incorporating retained structure, the scheme demonstrates how complex conditions produce opportunities for reinvention and activation.

The scheme, engineered by AKT-II, unites three former PoMo office buildings in a cohesive 187,400 sq ft workplace, anchored by a permeable, active ground floor. A repositioned public house, a new civic-scale lobby onto Islington High Street and direct access to Angel station generate a new relationship between building, street and city.

Attendees will gain first-hand insight into the design and delivery of a complex retrofit-led scheme, including:

• Grand lobby and arrival sequence
• Typical office floorplate
• Common parts and circulation spaces
• Roof terraces
• Cycle facilities
• Newly created public realm

Image credit: Rob Parrish, AHMM