The Broadgate story embraces issues of large scale urban change, architectural politics (a battle between modernist traditions and post-modernist sentiments), and a common ground probably unacknowledged by either of the main protagonists. The narrative begins with No.1 Finsbury Avenue, on Wilson Street, one of the first developments to be targeted at a specific market (financial […]

85 London Wall, EC2 is designed by the 30 Casson Conder Partnership, 1990. It is a pleasant, rather small building (5,085 sq. m. gross) and sits at the opposite end of the spectrum to the size and ‘footprint’ of buildings such as Minster Court, those atBroadgate, orFoster’s ‘gherkin’. It is for the smaller organisation and […]

The current redevelopment of the former Spitalfield market area is about the City expanding into the East End and, in the process, demolishing parts of a former fruit and vegetable market founded in 1683 whose current buildings are from around 1928. (The landlord of the property is the Corporation of London — the City — […]

Housing a significant international collection, the Women’s Library (a part of the Metropolitan University) uses a layout that responds to the client’s requirements for highly accessible and secure private space coupled with the need for stringent environmental control in some areas. The building consists of an exhibition hall, seminar room, educational facilities, reading room, archives, […]

Being the last of the great dock projects, St. Katherine’s was also the smallest and most expensive, but enjoyed a location adjacent to the Tower, on the eastern edge of the City of London. This meant that, after the dock closed in 1969, St. Katherine’s was among the first areas to be redeveloped. However, more […]