Architect Oliver Tyler (WilkinsonEyre) and engineer Jeremy Edwards (Arup) explore the development of Eight Bishopsgate - the new 51 storey tower in the City of London.
debating the future of the City
Architect Oliver Tyler (WilkinsonEyre) and engineer Jeremy Edwards (Arup) explore the development of Eight Bishopsgate - the new 51 storey tower in the City of London.
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...
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...
“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...