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Tour: One Liverpool Street

Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

1 Liverpool St , 1 Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 7AY

Join the City Architecture Forum for a tour of One Liverpool Street, a 10-storey office and Elizabeth Line Oversite Development (OSD).

One Liverpool Street is a new-build 10-storey office building and Elizabeth Line Oversite Development (OSD) designed by Eric Parry Architects. Visible from Finsbury Circus the finely crafted façades include sand-cast aluminium elements. The calm and ordered exterior belies the structural gymnastics required to bridge the live Metropolitan Line tracks and span over a seven-storey ventilation shaft onto limited foundations and basements.

We will take you on a tour of the development as it nears completion explaining the joint venture that enabled an amalgamated site and commercial viability, and the architectural design and complex engineering to deliver this. The building’s…

Talk: Reclaiming the City’s riverside with a waterfront renaissance

Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

HawkinsBrown , 30 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5PG

Join the City Architecture Forum to explore four new Thames riverside spaces, led by HawkinsBrown, now transforming London’s riverfront. The four new riverside public spaces built above the Thames Tideway Tunnel in central London will be the subject of a City Architecture Forum talk hosted by HawkinsBrown who oversaw the...

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...

Reports on Past Events

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...

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...

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...

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....

One Leadenhall Street Event Review

By Xavier Aguilo

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

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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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