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Talk: In AHMM’s good offices…

Wednesday, 29 July 2026, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
AHMM , 5-23 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HL
Join Simon Allford (AHMM) at Clerkenwell for a talk on the future of office design in the City, plus The Dovetail Building case study.

Join Simon Allford PPRIBA, co-founder of AHMM and one of the UK’s most influential architects, for an evening exploring how office design is responding to changing patterns of work, evolving occupier expectations and the continuing reinvention of the City of London.

Hosted at AHMM’s Clerkenwell studio, this special event will consider the changing role of the workplace and the ideas shaping the next generation of office buildings.

The evening will also feature a presentation of Brockton Everlast’s proposed new office tower, The Dovetail Building at 115-123 Houndsditch, with Joanna Parker, Principal Planning (Design and Heritage)…

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SHOW & TELL | 75 London Wall

Thursday, 17 September 2026, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Temple Bar London , Paternoster Lodge 2 Paternoster Square, London, EC4 7DX

Join City Architecture Forum for an exclusive look at 75 London Wall’s transformation into a pioneering, sustainable workplace. Join the City Architecture Forum for an exclusive look at the transformation of 75 London Wall, the former Deutsche Bank headquarters, into one of the City’s most significant next-generation workplaces. Hosted by...

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Tour: 1 Poultry

Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
1 Poultry , 1 Poultry, London, EC2R 8EJ

Join CAF for a tour of No.1 Poultry, exploring its landmark retrofit, low-carbon transformation & future as a sustainable City headquarters. No. 1 Poultry is one of the City’s defining landmarks – a Grade II* listed building designed by James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, it occupies one of London’s...

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Talk: City Transport Planning

Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Temple Bar London , Paternoster Lodge 2 Paternoster Square, London, EC4 7DX

Join Roy McGowan, Director, Momentum and Bruce McVean, Assistant Director – Policy & Projects, City of London Corporation for a discussion about the past, present and future of the City’s streets and public realm. This year marks both the 50th anniversary of Roy starting his career – as an apprentice...

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Tour: Skinners’ Hall

Monday, 12 October 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Skinners' Hall , 8 Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2SP

Join CAF to visit Skinners’ Hall with 6a Architects and explore the transformation of this Grade I listed landmark. Join The City Architecture Forum on a guided tour of the transformed home of the Skinners’ Livery Company at Dowgate Hill. The Hall which is Listed Grade 1 and is also...

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City Architecture Forum 2026 Annual Dinner

Wednesday, 11 November 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Chartered Accountants Hall , Moorgate Place London EC2R 6EA

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 11th 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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Something in the City – a model for mayors everywhere

By Lee Mallett

Something in the City – CAF’s founder Michael Cassidy, CBE, with his new memoir, celebrating the Forum’s 35th anniversary Had Michael Cassidy been Mayor of London rather than ‘Something in the City’, we might now be living in a different city. This became clear at the City Architecture Forum’s sold-out inaugural...

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Tour de force from City’s Planners               

By Lee Mallett

CAF’s inaugural planning tour of the intense development activity around Holborn and the Fleet Valley, led by Planning and Development Director Gwyn Richards with Assistant Director (Design) Tom Nancollas, was a sell-out success, evading rain until the last moment. Weaving south from Make Architects’ Holborn Gate scheme for Hoi Hup...

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Three-into-one at Angel Square

By Lee Mallett

Architect AHMM’s reimagining of Angel Square in Islington for US developer Tishman Speyer has quickly attracted tech and social media tenants since its completion in November 2025. It offers a hotel-like welcome in an elegant, animated lobby that includes a new public café and a more direct visual relationship with...

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Over the tracks at One Liverpool Street

By David Lawrence, MD of Architects Flanagan Lawrence

CAF members were very pleased to be able to visit the nearly completed project at 1 Liverpool Street this week. Robert Kennett, Lee Higson and Rupert Willard from Eric Parry Architects together with Ben Stallward from Aviva Investors and Jonathan Emmines, Martin Bailey and Levan Sichinava from Mace gave an...

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2 Aldermanbury Square

By Christopher Breiner

We are sincerely grateful to our hosts and guides, Piers Blewitt, Director of Development Management at Great Portland Estates (GPE), and Artur Carulla, Partner at Allies and Morrison Architects. CAF members and their guests were afforded a rare privilege: visiting the project shortly after practical completion, just days before the...

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Refurbishing retrofit as ‘FutureFit’

By Lee Mallett

Rebranding retrofit as ‘FutureFit’ to generate a more positive, forward-looking image and removing or reducing VAT on refurb projects, with developers incentivised to pursue retrofit first through a reward based planning  approach, were suggestions at CAF’s Retrofit at Scale event, hosted by architect and design firm Gensler. Gensler’s Co-Managing Director...

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Helical’s 100 New Bridge Street nears completion

By Lee Higson, Eric Parry Architects

CAF members visited the soon-to-be-completed project at 100 New Bridge Street, a retrofit project of an existing building (completed in 1992) to renew the life of the building to meet current tenant requirements and environmental standards. Developed by Helical and Orion, with architects Gensler and main contractor Mace, the project...

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New embodied-carbon contender for Farringdon

By Lee Mallett
The City may have a contender for best-in-class when it comes to the lowest levels of embodied carbon for a new building....
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One Leadenhall Street Event Review

By Xavier Aguilo
Yesterday's journey through One Leadenhall Street was nothing short of architectural poetry in motion....
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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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