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City Architecture Forum 2025 Annual Dinner

Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Mercer , 34 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AY

Join the City Architecture Forum on Wednesday 5th November for 2025 Annual Dinner.

Taking place at The Mercer on Threadneedle Street this year we will hear from our two guest speakers:

Tom Sleigh,Chair of the Planning and Transportation Committee at the City of London Corporation Robin Dobson, recently confirmed as the Chief Executive of Platform4 the new company created by HM Government to unlock the delivery of surplus railway land across the country.

 

If purchasing multiple tickets in your name, please log back in to your Eventbrite account and provide details of guests; name, email, dietary requirements, organisation, and job title by 27th October 2025.

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Tour: Stonecutter Court (Rescheduled after Tube Strikes)

Thursday, 13 November 2025, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Join City Architecture Forum for a presentation and tour of Stonecutter, the landmark 245,000 sq ft new office and retail development just completed in the Fleet St Quarter. Developed by CO—RE on behalf of La Caisse and PIMCO, Stonecutter exemplifies innovative, sustainable design. This striking 13-storey building, designed throughout by...

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Tour: One Leadenhall Street

Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
One Leadenhall Street , 1 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3V 1PP
Join the City Architecture Forum for a tour of Ken Shuttleworth's new building, including the 4th floor terrace overlooking Leadenhall....
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Talk: 70 Gracechurch Street

Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Temple Bar London , Paternoster Lodge 2 Paternoster Square, London, EC4 7DX

Join City Architecture Forum on December 2nd at Temple Bar for the conclusion of the Gracechurch Series when we will hear from KPF , Stanhope, DP9 and Robert Bird Group about the design of 70 Gracechurch Street. The 550,000 sft building will complement the neighbouring projects at 85 and 60...

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Tour: Custom House Building

Thursday, 15 January 2026, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Custom House , 101 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6DL

Join the City Architecture Forum on January 15th as we tour this historic early 19th century riverside building which has for many years been occupied by HMRC and closed to viewing. The building has recently been in the news with the approval by the City of London Planning Committe for...

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Reports on Past Events

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Reflections on the Talk: 85 Gracechurch Street

By Matthew Thomas
Architecture is at its most compelling when it not only responds to context but actively reshapes it, carrying the past into the present while opening doors to the future. Last Tuesday’s talk on 85 Gracechurch Street delivered on this, offering an inspiring glimpse into a landmark scheme that sits at...
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TBC . London: going for green and social impact

By Lee Mallett

What is probably the best view of the City core’s cluster, CAF members agreed on their recent tour, is now available from the northern roof terrace of TBC.London – an environmentally and socially impactful remodelling of an unlovely 1980s building at 224-226 Tower Bridge Road, south-east of Tower Bridge that...

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‘Destination in the sky’ – One Undershaft

By Lee Mallett

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The sudden emptying of streets in the Pandemic meant ‘we started to think harder about the human elements of the City in that pause’, said Eric Parry, newly minted CBE in this year’s Birthday Honours, introducing One Undershaft to Forum members and guests at his practice’s Old Street offices. Having...

40 Leadenhall: More of the Metropolis

By Richard Golding

Image courtesy of Make Architects On a sun-drenched afternoon in early April, members of the City Architecture Forum filtered through the thirsty Leadenhall Market to arrive at an exclusive tour of 40 Leadenhall. A striking and unavoidable new presence on the City’s skyline and one of the most ambitious commercial...

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Bishopsgate Goodsyard: Where the buddleia reigns… for now

By Lee Mallett

“East is best, the West is the rest” was a saying in Shoreditch’s artist-led renaissance back in the 1990s, affirmation that a new place was emerging. We’re talking pre-Tea Building and way before Shoreditch House opened in 2007 – when nearly all buildings in Hoxton Square were vacant. Times were...

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Mixed outlook for Truman Brewery

By Lee Mallett

The 4 ha Truman Brewery site which members visited in February, courtesy of development manager Grow Places, like British Land’s nearby Norton Folgate site, has proved controversial and is the subject of three planning applications now in public consultation. Founded in 1666 and the world’s largest brewery by 1873 before...

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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...

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Art & Architecture in the City

By Cécile Brisac

Artworks taking root within architectural and urban surroundings inspire us and challenge our thinking. Any doubts you may have had about their importance in our daily lives would have been lifted during last week’s talk on “Art and Architecture in the City”. Their production and their influence make for fascinating...

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CAF Annual Dinner 2024: Delivering Destination City

The City Corporation will work “collaboratively and transparently” with developers, architects and their teams alongside businesses to deliver “Destination City”, the object of City Plan 2040, the new Director of Environment, Katie Stewart (below, middle right), told a packed City Architecture Forum annual dinner. 88 CAF members and guests filled...

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Hold the front page for Fleet Street’s renaissance

By Lee Mallett
So the City Corporation sponsored the establishment of a fourth BID in the City, the Fleet Street Quarter Business Improvement District, which opened for business in 2022. Two years on, Mike Fairmaner, former Westminster planner, now head of placemaking for the BID, Introduced an update for CAF members (ironically in...
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2 Finsbury Avenue – Research based design thinking in the pursuit of innovation

By David Magyar

The business of attracting visitors to hotels and restaurants, customers into shops to buy retail products, and tenants into offices has, in recent times, become hugely challenging – and the competition is fierce. Leasing agents would have us believe we are in an ‘arms race’ to persuade people back into...

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Beyond the fringe at Norton Folgate

By Lee Mallett

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 reincarnation of the Norton Folgate site in Spitalfields that was so controversial in its nascent stages back in 2013 when AHMM prepared their first feasibility study for...

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