Chris Hayward, Policy Chairman at the City of London Corporation, outlines the continuities and changes needed over the next five years for the City to remain a world-leader in the build environment.
debating the future of the city
Chris Hayward, Policy Chairman at the City of London Corporation, outlines the continuities and changes needed over the next five years for the City to remain a world-leader in the build environment.
The draft City of London local plan, at 44,000 words, is a prodigious effort, suggesting future development can be directed or fine-tuned to suit a very decent set of strategies reaching 2040. The product of a process which began in 2016, which has been subject to five public consultations so...
Wednesday, 3 November For those who recall the mid-80s development scene in the City the huge Broadgate redevelopment represented a step change from the dismal multitude of dull buildings provided by so-called ‘developers architects’ of that time. The wholesale demolition of historic, characterful, useable City buildings that redevelopment entailed was...
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...