81 Newgate Street, the former BT Headquarters, is an exciting transformation project in the heart of the City.
John Bushell (Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates) discusses the scheme, which will transform a monolithic 1980’s office block into a sustainable, mixed-use building that is embedded in the wider public life of the City as a new gateway destination into London’s ‘Culture Mile’.
Sadly it looks as if the concluding headlines for 2021 will, like those for 2020, be dominated by COVID and its variants. Despite this depressing turn of events, 2021 has been a year of significant progress for the City of London and in turn for its built environment, and the...
“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...
