2020 Digital Lecture Series: 21 Moorfields

By City Architecture Forum
November 2020

Giles Martin, Director of WilkinsonEyre and David Seel, Managing Director of Robert Bird Group join in conversation with Michael Cassidy CBE, Chairman Ebbsfleet Garden City and Advisor to the Crossrail Art Programme. Giles and David have led from inception the delivery of 21 Moorfields, an ambitious over-site development above Moorgate LUL and Crossrail stations. The scheme, for Landsec, provides more than 550,000ft² of new commercial space and will upon completion become the new London headquarters for Deutsche Bank.

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