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’.
The draft City Plan 2040 is at its Examination in Public. The Corporation has abandoned plans to move Billingsgate and Smithfield fish and meat markets to Barking and to close them, with traders to be compensated and presumably freed to fend for themselves. Michael Cassidy, an ‘architect’ of today’s Square...
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...
