New London Architecture
NLQ Issue 55
Life begins at 30
Turning 30 can be a tricky affair. Leaving the rock ’n roll years behind you, taking on more responsibility, but also feeling that you’re still young and there’s still just so much to learn.
The same could be said for architectural practices, two of which we feature in this edition of NLQ as they look to the future, to new work, and even to new locations as they embrace succession and life beyond their departing founders’ inspirations, three decades earlier. We profile both Child Graddon Lewis and JRA as they seek to negotiate the next, key phases of their respective journeys in our New Teams at 30 features this time.
Louise Rodgers delves further into the subject of succession in another feature, with a room full of practice personalities each at the coalface of their own brands of organisational change, while Pat Brown talks to Nicky Gavron, a woman who has experienced — and influenced — decades of change in the capital, dispensing her acquired wisdom in these pages to selected mentees over lunch.
Rory Olcayto writes for us about the return of deck access. And then there is a mini theme of outer London with Greg Clark writing about London’s Towns, and Letters from Boroughs as diverse as Bromley and Barnet. From outer London we travel to inner, despite its name, to The Outernet, inspired by music and the 1960s Tin Pan Alley, in our building review this time, Dan Burr writes about Sheppard Robson’s transformation of a 1980s Farringdon Road car park opposite the famous Eagle pub, and EPR shows us around its new All Saints Home to the rear of the Imperial War Museum near Elephant and Castle.
Many of these items are about embracing transformational change and looking to the future. And some, it turns out, show that life can begin at 30, after all.
Enjoy the issue!
David Taylor
Editor
The same could be said for architectural practices, two of which we feature in this edition of NLQ as they look to the future, to new work, and even to new locations as they embrace succession and life beyond their departing founders’ inspirations, three decades earlier. We profile both Child Graddon Lewis and JRA as they seek to negotiate the next, key phases of their respective journeys in our New Teams at 30 features this time.
Louise Rodgers delves further into the subject of succession in another feature, with a room full of practice personalities each at the coalface of their own brands of organisational change, while Pat Brown talks to Nicky Gavron, a woman who has experienced — and influenced — decades of change in the capital, dispensing her acquired wisdom in these pages to selected mentees over lunch.
Rory Olcayto writes for us about the return of deck access. And then there is a mini theme of outer London with Greg Clark writing about London’s Towns, and Letters from Boroughs as diverse as Bromley and Barnet. From outer London we travel to inner, despite its name, to The Outernet, inspired by music and the 1960s Tin Pan Alley, in our building review this time, Dan Burr writes about Sheppard Robson’s transformation of a 1980s Farringdon Road car park opposite the famous Eagle pub, and EPR shows us around its new All Saints Home to the rear of the Imperial War Museum near Elephant and Castle.
Many of these items are about embracing transformational change and looking to the future. And some, it turns out, show that life can begin at 30, after all.
Enjoy the issue!
David Taylor
Editor
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In this issue
FEATURES
The new teams at 30 14 | 20
David Taylor talks to Child Graddon Lewis, and Louise Rodgers profiles JRA
Succession! 26
Louise Rodgers talks to a number of firms about the thorny subject
In conversation 28
Pat Brown has lunch with Nicky Gavron and friends
How we work 40
EPR’s Edward Wood writes about All Saints, the practice’s new offices
Feature 48
Rory Olcayto on the return of deck access schemes
New London Agenda Special 56
Greg Clark looks at Outer London in the latest New London Agenda essay
Building reviews 74 | 88
The Outernet by Orms and Sheppard Robson’s Farringdon Road hotel and offices scheme
REGULARS
Need to know 4
The quarter — our summary of all the key news events this term
Viewpoint 8
We ask: what needs to happen to allow London to move towards a circular economy?
Opinions 43 | 44 | 46
Opinions this time from Archio, Moore Kingston Smith, and Amy Lamé
Letters from the boroughs 50
Barnet’s Cath Shaw and Bromley’s Yvonne Bear offer a north and south perspective
Best of the web 52
Max Fordham talks to David Taylor about LDN
Columnist 60
Yolande Barnes looks at the impact artificial intelligence is having on academia and the built environment
Coffee break 94
Clare Goggin, partner at Jackson Coles answers the questions
My London 134
Stratford, by Leah Harrison Bailey of Thomas Matthews, part of the Useful Simple Trust
PLUS...
Portfolio 6
This year’s Don’t Move, Improve! winner, the Secret Garden Flat by Nic Howett Architect
From the team 34
Rosa Rogina on this year’s London Festival of Architecture and its theme of shared London values
Q&A 36
Emily Gee of the Church Commissioners, on heritage, diversity, inclusion... and cycling
NEW Reimagining... 38
Olli Cranstone of Webb Yates Engineers, presents two radical, blue-sky ideas for improving the capital’s infrastructure
Murray Mint 62
Peter Murray looks at four books which delve into what good housing looks like
Briefing notes 64
Our regular round-up of conferences and events at NLA
Technical explainer 92
Henry Pelly, principal sustainability consultant at Max Fordham, on the NABERS energy rating system
Market essay 98
Patrick Scanlon, director of Avison Young, on evolving London
The new teams at 30 14 | 20
David Taylor talks to Child Graddon Lewis, and Louise Rodgers profiles JRA
Succession! 26
Louise Rodgers talks to a number of firms about the thorny subject
In conversation 28
Pat Brown has lunch with Nicky Gavron and friends
How we work 40
EPR’s Edward Wood writes about All Saints, the practice’s new offices
Feature 48
Rory Olcayto on the return of deck access schemes
New London Agenda Special 56
Greg Clark looks at Outer London in the latest New London Agenda essay
Building reviews 74 | 88
The Outernet by Orms and Sheppard Robson’s Farringdon Road hotel and offices scheme
REGULARS
Need to know 4
The quarter — our summary of all the key news events this term
Viewpoint 8
We ask: what needs to happen to allow London to move towards a circular economy?
Opinions 43 | 44 | 46
Opinions this time from Archio, Moore Kingston Smith, and Amy Lamé
Letters from the boroughs 50
Barnet’s Cath Shaw and Bromley’s Yvonne Bear offer a north and south perspective
Best of the web 52
Max Fordham talks to David Taylor about LDN
Columnist 60
Yolande Barnes looks at the impact artificial intelligence is having on academia and the built environment
Coffee break 94
Clare Goggin, partner at Jackson Coles answers the questions
My London 134
Stratford, by Leah Harrison Bailey of Thomas Matthews, part of the Useful Simple Trust
PLUS...
Portfolio 6
This year’s Don’t Move, Improve! winner, the Secret Garden Flat by Nic Howett Architect
From the team 34
Rosa Rogina on this year’s London Festival of Architecture and its theme of shared London values
Q&A 36
Emily Gee of the Church Commissioners, on heritage, diversity, inclusion... and cycling
NEW Reimagining... 38
Olli Cranstone of Webb Yates Engineers, presents two radical, blue-sky ideas for improving the capital’s infrastructure
Murray Mint 62
Peter Murray looks at four books which delve into what good housing looks like
Briefing notes 64
Our regular round-up of conferences and events at NLA
Technical explainer 92
Henry Pelly, principal sustainability consultant at Max Fordham, on the NABERS energy rating system
Market essay 98
Patrick Scanlon, director of Avison Young, on evolving London
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