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Upcoming Events

City Architecture Forum 2026 Annual Dinner

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

Members and their guests are invited to the City Architecture Forum’s Annual and 35th Anniversary Dinner.

Two distinguished guest speakers will bring complementary and essential perspectives on how evolution in approaches to the City’s heritage, architecture and urban design, can help deliver the ambitions of the City Plan 2040 and beyond.

Simon Thurley CBE

Architectural historian, writer, and former Chief Executive of English Heritage, and of the Museum of London, Simon Thurley, brings an unrivalled understanding of our historic built environment and the challenge of reconciling heritage with the pressures of a global financial centre.

Simon Allford

Founding Director of AHMM and Past President of the RIBA, Simon Allford’s approach to architecture and urbanism is rooted in the idea of…

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Tour: Timber Square

Wednesday, 25 November 2026, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Timber Square , 25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

Join CAF for a guided tour of Timber Square with Landsec and Bennetts Associates, exploring its 365,000 sq ft Bankside campus. An ambitious new workplace campus in the heart of Bankside. Set across two buildings with a central urban square the development. Print is a 1950s printworks transformed into a...

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Reports on Past Events

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1 Poultry: retrofit as the new benchmark

By Xavier Aguilo
The recent CAF tour of 1 Poultry with Fore and MORE was a masterclass in what serious reuse looks like. James Stirling's Grade II * listed 1997 landmark is being reimagined rather than replaced — and the numbers tell the story: EPC G to EPC A, BREEAM Outstanding, and NABERS...
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Stage-set for a cocktail of users

By Alex Thorpe, Associate Director, CO-RE
What's a CAF event without cocktails and canapés? Thankfully, this one didn't disappoint. An evening at AHMM’s Clerkenwell studio, looking at the future of offices and in particular, Brockton Everlast’s The Dovetail building in Houndsditch, brought together three distinct perspectives on the workplace of tomorrow: the planner, the architect and...
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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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