New London Architecture

NLQ Issue 56

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David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

James Saunders

CEO
Quintain

Prof. Greg Clark CBE

Senior Advsor
NLA

Lady Lucy French

CEO
Fleet Street Quarter

Amanda Hughes

Architectural and design channel manager
Blum

Ros Morgan

Chief Executive
Heart of London Business Alliance

Jonathan Langdon

Senior Acquisition Manager for London
Whitbread

Jennifer Daothong

Executive Director Housing
London Borough of Lewisham

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Tom McNeil

Chartered Engineer and Principal Building Performance Engineer
Max Fordham

Sophie Rosier

Director
Savills

David Williams

Executive Director
Savills

Good sports

London is one of the great world cities when it comes to sport.

While the Lionesses were excelling in their football journey on the other side of the world, the UK capital was putting the finishing touches to an extraordinary summer when it hosted not just the Wimbledon Championships but two stirring men’s cricket test matches, NFL, Major League Baseball, the Boat Race, Formula E, athletics and a whole host of top-tier football, hockey and rugby matches in packed-out, world-class stadia.

And it was at one of those world-class venues, Lord’s, that NLQ interviewed three of the directors of WilkinsonEyre about their plans to design two more stands at the peerless architectural ensemble, but also to reflect on life after loss — one of their key players, Chris Wilkinson, two years ago.

Which isn’t to say sport in the capital is what happens on the pitch alone, of course. The revitalisation of Wembley, 100 years on from the stadium’s original manifestation, is testament to that. At Wembley Park, Quintain has created a place around the ‘anchor’ venue that functions as efficiently on match days as it does when sport or music come to town. Quintain boss James Saunders leads our walk about the BtR-rich estate this issue. Another team on the up is Heyne Tillett Steel, whose winning brand of engineering is profiled by Louise Rodgers.

We travel to Knightsbridge to see how Fletcher Priest has reimagined a very high-profile quarter of the city, juggling the needs of heritage, conservation, new build, retail, residential and tube lines with aplomb. And we move to Whitechapel to review team AHMM’s transformation of an old hospital into the new home for Tower Hamlets Borough Council.

There is plenty more besides: Yolande Barnes asks if it’s time for ‘hypermixity’, ushering in an intense form of mixed use. Tom Goodall, the new boss of Related Argent — no stranger itself to balancing uses across a large site at King’s Cross, for example, answers our questions in Coffee Break. And we journey further afield to Finland to talk to Turku mayor Minna Arve about her bid to build on the city’s Capital of Culture in 2011 with a new vision for health and wellbeing at its core.

In an age where serious issues such as housing and homelessness, the cost-of-living crisis and global warming fill our news outlets, sport offers a release and an unpredictable boost to the soul. But it also brings a viable economic boost and draw to investment, with developments which can help the regeneration push to bind communities together and offer a sense of urban cohesion. Game on.

Enjoy the issue!

David Taylor
Editor
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In the issue

FEATURES

Top of their game
14
David Taylor meets the WilkinsonEyre trio driving the team forward

The new teams
22
Louise Rodgers discovers what makes Heyne Tillett Steel tick

Walkabout 30
David Taylor gets the lowdown on the Wembley way from Quintain’s James Saunders

Learning from...
36
Minna Arve, mayor of Turku in Finland tells David Taylor about moving the city on after being capital of culture

New London Agenda Special
48
Making Place for Planet — the latest essay in Professor Greg Clark’s series towards a New London Agenda

Project preview 62
St George and SEGRO’s plans at Alperton in Brent, mixing industry and residential

Building reviews
80 | 92
AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall and Fletcher Priest’s Knightsbridge Estate

REGULARS

Need to know
4
The quarter — our summary of all the key news events this term

Viewpoint
8
We ask: how can London deliver new housing at pace and price?

Opinions
35 | 40 | 46 | 61
Opinions this time from Lucy French, Blum’s Amanda Hughes, Ros Morgan and Whitbread’s Jonathan Langdon

Best of the web
42
RSHP’s Graham Stirk talks to David Taylor about the ripple effect of its 22 Hanover Square project

Letter from the boroughs
56
Jennifer Daothong, acting chief executive of Lewisham Council, on the borough’s transformation by the Lewisham Gateway

Columnist
58
Professor Yolande Barnes on our outdated planning use classes

Coffee break
100
Tom Goodall, managing director, Related Argent, answers the questions

My London
146
Tales of the riverbanks by Antonio Moll, director, Moll Architects

PLUS...

Portfolio
6
TBC.London, reusing steel, and Circular London

Murray Mint
12
Peter Murray asks: ‘What is an architect?’

From the team
29
NLA’s Benjamin O’Connor previews the upcoming LREF and its ‘Value’ theme

Review
68
Peter Murray goes underground to review ‘London tube stations 1924–1961’

Briefing notes
70
Our regular round-up of conferences and events at NLA

Technical explainer
98
Tom McNeil of Max Fordham, unpacks a commonly used phrase — ‘building performance’

Market essay
104
London’s transformations, by Sophie Rosier, head of mixed-use development, and David Williams, executive director, Savills UK

Annual NLQ subscription

David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

James Saunders

CEO
Quintain

Prof. Greg Clark CBE

Senior Advsor
NLA

Lady Lucy French

CEO
Fleet Street Quarter

Amanda Hughes

Architectural and design channel manager
Blum

Ros Morgan

Chief Executive
Heart of London Business Alliance

Jonathan Langdon

Senior Acquisition Manager for London
Whitbread

Jennifer Daothong

Executive Director Housing
London Borough of Lewisham

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Tom McNeil

Chartered Engineer and Principal Building Performance Engineer
Max Fordham

Sophie Rosier

Director
Savills

David Williams

Executive Director
Savills


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