2020 Digital Lecture Series: 81 Newgate Street

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’.

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