Category: Video

Revealing the City: Thermal Comfort – a ground breaking initiative

Gwyn Richards Chief Planning Officer and Development Director in the Department of the Built Environment at the City of London, and Ender Ozkan Vice President of RWDI discuss how the 2 organisations worked together to produce the new guidelines for the next generation of post COVID developments in the City where the very crafting of a more nuanced mix of new office space and outdoor amenity will be fundamental to the next generation for the City of London.

Revealing the City: Eight Bishopsgate

Architect Oliver Tyler (WilkinsonEyre) and engineer Jeremy Edwards (Arup) explore the development of Eight Bishopsgate – the new 51 storey tower in the City of London.

Revealing the City: The future of offices in the City of London

Despina Katsikakis, Global Head of Total Workplace at Cushman and Wakefield, Peter Murray London Mayoral Design Advocate and Chair of New London Architecture, and Andrew Reynolds City Architecture Forum Chair and advisor on a number of new City tower projects discuss the future of cities and workspace in the post-COVID world.

Revealing the City: 77 Coleman

Victoria Cooper, Associate at architecture and interior design practice Buckley Gray Yeoman and Gordon Armstrong-Payne from Heyne Tillett Steel present 77 Coleman – the comprehensive redevelopment of an existing building that fronts onto two major thoroughfares within the City of London.

Revealing the City: FutureWork

Ben Koslowski, Sam Ki and Chris Radley (Fletcher Priest) examine FutureWork which explores the evolving workplace and how and where we might work in future. While the flexibility and informality of home working was hailed as the future of work at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, remote working has emphasised the value of face-to-face interaction and collaboration. Can the traditional office survive shifting work patterns, or will it become an important part of a networked workplace where choice and flexibility are the future?

Revealing the City: Exchange Square

Deborah Saunt, co-founder; Tom Greenall, associate director of the architecture, urban design and spatial research studio DSDHA; and James Fox, partner of landscape architects FFLO, discuss the emerging design of Exchange Square, Broadgate in the City of London.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 100 Liverpool Street

Charles Horne, Project Director of the Broadgate Campus for British Land and Mike Taylor, Principal of Hopkins Architects explore the conversion of 100 Liverpool St, from a 1980s building into a new benchmark for London offices, with a focus on technology, sustainability and wellbeing.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 21 Moorfields

Giles Martin, Director of WilkinsonEyre and David Seel, Managing Director of Robert Bird Group join in conversation with Michael Cassidy CBE, Chairman Ebbsfleet Garden City and Advisor to the Crossrail Art Programme. Giles and David have led from inception the delivery of 21 Moorfields, an ambitious over-site development above Moorgate LUL and Crossrail stations. The scheme, for Landsec, provides more than 550,000ft² of new commercial space and will upon completion become the new London headquarters for Deutsche Bank.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 6 Orsman Road

6 Orsman Road on the banks of Regent’s Canal in Haggerston is a sustainably focused office building comprising 34,000 sq. ft. by Storey, British Land’s solution to flexible private workspace. Designed by leading architectural practice Waugh Thistleton Architects, Storey’s 6 Orsman Road is championing the use of sustainable materials for flexible offices. The building’s design is aligned to the core principles of sustainability and throughout the design process there has been a focus on reducing environmental impact by reusing or recycling materials where possible. At 6 Orsman Road a cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure has been used to reduce the building’s impact on the environment, as compared to concrete and steel CLT production requires less water and energy to manufacture. CLT is also exposed internally at 6 Orsman Road, minimising the number of finishes used on the structure, and the offcuts from the building have been repurposed to make furniture within the shared spaces of the building. Andrew Waugh (Founder & Director, Waugh Thistleton Architects) and Stewart Whiting (Head of Product, Storey) discuss the design process of 6 Orsman Road.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: The role of the City’s public realm in today’s changing context

Public spaces are the essential foundation for healthy and enjoyable city life in dense urban environments. As the current health crisis evolves, the ability to engage safely in welcoming outdoor / publicly-accessible indoor green environments is becoming essential for the re-activation of the economy in urban environments. Ken Shuttleworth founder of Make Architects and Dima Zogheib, Associate at ARUP’s Cities Division, discuss how stakeholders can help facilitate a resilient post-COVID city life in dense urban centres and support the re-activation of the City.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: Engineering New Architecture – 100 Leadenhall

SOM Design Partner Kent Jackson, and Dmitri Jajich, Structural Engineering Director explore SOM’s history of inventive design, and SOM’s proposal for 100 Leadenhall Street, an elegant and intricate tower created by an integrated team of expert engineers and architects, slated to reshape the City’s Eastern Cluster in the years to come. Kent Jackson: is the Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in London. Since joining in 1999, Jackson has worked in SOM’s Chicago and London offices. Under his leadership the office has won a number of significant projects including the renovation of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Karlatornet, Scandinavia’s tallest building, in Gothenburg; and The Stratford, an iconic 42-story residential tower located in East London. Jackson’s work has been published in various international publications including Wallpaper, DETAIL, Interior Design, and SOM Journal. He has also lectured at a number of conferences and architectural schools around the world including TED Talks in 2015. Dmitri Jajich: As a Director of Structural Engineering in the London office, Jajich leads the delivery of innovative structural engineering solutions to realize ambitious building designs. Since joining in 2000, Dmitri Jajich has worked on projects ranging in scale from the World’s Tallest Building to a single-storey residence, and has also collaborated with numerous renowned artists. His recent projects include Karlatornet tower in Gothenburg, Sweden, and The Stratford, which features an ambitious notched, double-cantilevered construction. Jajich is an active chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers in the UK, and a licensed Structural and Civil Engineer in both Illinois and New York.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 20 Ropemaker Street

This new 27-storey commercial office building, on the City Fringe has now started on site, and when complete in 2023, will bookend the emerging cluster of towers around CityPoint Square. The design evolution of this new City icon, dealing with a transition in the townscape, features an articulated natural stone façade, a stepping form, and an innovative and challenging structure that creates the opportunity for varied floorplates with no centre core, and multiple roof terraces. In dialogue with principal architect and the client, the design approach looked to create a next generation of workspace that promotes wellbeing in a creative and collaborative environment, successfully leading to the biggest letting of 2020.

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.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 81 Newgate Street

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 City as a new gateway destination into London’s ‘Culture Mile’.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: Changing Transport and Public Realm in the City

Bruce McVean, Acting Assistant Director, City Transportation, City of London Corporation and Roy McGowan of Momentum Transport consultancy discuss “City Streets – the Transportation response to support the City’s recovery from Covid -19”. The City of London Corporation has begun to deliver its transport recovery plan, designed to ensure the safety of workers, residents and visitors as people return to the Square Mile. The scheme is primarily focused on providing the space needed to maintain social distancing on our streets and to enable safe walking, cycling and the managed use of public transport. Have your say: complete the City of London survey to let them know what you think about the changes. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/covid19citystreets

2020 Digital Lecture Series: Great Arthur House

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.

2020 Digital Lecture Series: 50 Fenchurch Street

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 garden, and winter garden and a significant new public realm situated around a restored Grade I Tower of All Hallows Staining.