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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

One Leadenhall Street is the latest addition to the City Cluster.

Join the City Architecture Forum on 25th November 2025 for an introduction to the newly completed building by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects and a tour of the building to include the 4th floor public terrace overlooking the adjacent Grade II* listed Leadenhall Market.

Developed by Brookfield and built by Multiplex, the 35-storey building provides 430,000 sft of new Grade A offices and a major US law firm made an early commitment to pre-let circa 200,000sft of the new space.

Don’t miss this chance to explore one of the City’s landmark new completions!

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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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Christmas Drinks at a Private Members Club

Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- , -, London, SW1

MEMBERS ONLY EVENT The London Society and the City Architecture Forum are delighted to invite you to a festive evening of Christmas drinks in one of London’s most storied and elegant settings – an exclusive member club on Pall Mall. Founded in 1836 and housed in a landmark building designed...

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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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Tour: 100 New Bridge Street

Thursday, 22 January 2026, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
100 New Bridge St , 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JJ

Developed jointly by Helical and Orion Capital Partners, designed by Gensler and built by Mace this sustainable repositioning and extension project will be the new home of State Street Bank when they move back to the City of London from Canary Wharf. Through early engagement, Mace worked closely with the...

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City Architecture Forum 2026 Annual Dinner

Wednesday, 4 November 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Mercer , 34 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AY

City Architecture Forum look forward to welcoming you and your guests to the 2026 Annual Dinner. Save the date for the City Architecture Forum on Wednesday 4th November for 2026 Annual Dinner. Tickets go on sale at the end of September 2026. You need to be a member to buy...

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Reports on Past Events

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City Architecture Forum: Annual Dinner 5 November 2025

By Lee Mallett
Read the report on our Annual Dinner 2025 with guest speaker Tom Sleigh, Chair of the City’s Planning and Transportation Committee, and Robin Dobson, CEO of Platform4...
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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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