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Lee Mallett
Dec 12, 20244 min read
A turning point – a personal view
The draft City Plan 2040 is at its Examination in Public. The Corporation has abandoned plans to move Billingsgate and Smithfield fish...
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City Architecture Forum
Dec 9, 20244 min read
Art & Architecture in the City
A write-up of our event on 4th December by Cécile Brisac of Atelier Brisac.
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Lee Mallett
Nov 8, 20244 min read
CAF Annual Dinner 2024: Delivering Destination City
The City Corporation will work “collaboratively and transparently” with developers, architects and their teams alongside businesses to...
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Lee Mallett
Oct 29, 20245 min read
Hold the front page for Fleet Street’s renaissance
We cherish what Fleet Street was. It is part of London’s main processional route linking our rulers in the City of Westminster to the...
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David Magyar
Jun 27, 20245 min read
2 Finsbury Avenue – Research based design thinking in the pursuit of innovation
The business of attracting visitors to hotels and restaurants, customers into shops to buy retail products, and tenants into offices has,...
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Lee Mallett
Jun 7, 20244 min read
Beyond the fringe at Norton Folgate
A world away from the city’ promises one of the headings on British Land’s website for its £225m, 330,000 sq ft office-led mixed-use...
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Paul Finch
May 20, 20245 min read
The City 2040: perspiration outweighs inspiration
The draft City of London local plan, at 44,000 words, is a prodigious effort, suggesting future development can be directed or fine-tuned...
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Kara Thompson
May 10, 20243 min read
Retrofit and Re-use First : The City's journey to net-zero
In the world of sustainable architecture and design, the conversation for the built environment is evolving rapidly, challenging industry...
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Lee Higson
Feb 13, 20244 min read
A New Museum for London pt II
On a crisp and sunny February afternoon, a privileged group of 10 CAF members assembled at West Smithfields in anticipation of an early...
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City Architecture Forum
Feb 6, 20243 min read
Transport for a changing Square Mile
Tuesday, 12 December 2023 City Architecture Forum set up an enlightening presentation by Bruce McVean, Assistant Director, Policy &...
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Andrew Reynolds
Dec 15, 20232 min read
2023 End of Year Reflections
So as we come to the end of another year for the Forum and for the post-Covid City of London I sense a feeling of optimism and purpose in...
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City Architecture Forum
Sep 12, 20233 min read
All rise for Fleet Street’s super-court
Tuesday, 12 September 2023 City Architecture Forum members were treated to a preview of the City Corporation’s new court complex at its...
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City Architecture Forum
May 26, 20233 min read
Behind the Scenes : 8 Bishopsgate
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 With less than a month until Practical Completion and with the building still a hive of finishing and...
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City Architecture Forum
Apr 7, 20236 min read
Behind the Scenes : Urbanest City
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...
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City Architecture Forum
Oct 18, 20222 min read
Behind the Scenes : Leathersellers' Hall
Thursday, 8 September 2022 I joined the tour of the of the Leathersellers' Hall as a learning opportunity. I am an architect and I am...
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City Architecture Forum
Aug 10, 20223 min read
Behind the Scenes : The Gilbert & One Lackington (City Gate House)
Thursday, 14 July 2022 As we seek sympathetic and practical update of our City offices and rich heritage it was refreshing to join and...
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City Architecture Forum
May 31, 20225 min read
Behind the Scenes : 21 Moorfields
Thursday, 26 May 2022 New York was rebuilt on large plots of land, in a new grid network, with new ordinances that, for example, forbade...
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