New London Architecture

NLQ Issue 57

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David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Eric Parry

Principal
Eric Parry Architects

Ziona Strelitz

Director
ZZA Responsive User Environments

Prof. Greg Clark CBE

Senior Advsor
NLA

Katrina Kostic Samen

Head of Workplace Strategy and Design
KKS Savills

Negar Mihanyar

Partner & Education sector lead
Hawkins\Brown Ltd

Mark Davy

Founder & CEO
Futurecity

Jace Tyrrell

Chief Executive
Opportunity London

Food, glorious, food

The importance of food to cities is underrated. In our (hopefully) post-COVID age, it might just provide the secret in both luring people back for ‘experience’ and playing a big part in the development community attracting staff back into offices — living, working and playing in London’s town centres.

This issue of NLQ explores food as a central theme. We look at how HTA Design offers an eating and social experience for all staff as the bedrock of its ethos, helping add to the atmosphere of its new, award-winning office and allowing for more cross-fertilisation on projects.

Joe Morris explains how food is a similar central force in the holistic, multi-tenanted office he has created for Morris+Company, adding a vegan restaurant for its architects and fellow in-house collaborators. HLW looks at the notion of a café as holding a key to better working, while we look at the LOM-designed Unity Place campus scheme for Santander UK, providing an unlikely mix of bankers, brewery and urban food market. And columnist Yolande Barnes traces the history of the coffee shop as the foundation of Lloyd’s and commerce in the Square Mile.

Elsewhere, food for thought comes in the form of a profile by Louise Rodgers of Eric Parry Architects, celebrating its 40th anniversary with a slew of important projects including the reworked 1 Undershaft; a building review of Stanton Williams’ UCL East Marshgate; Futurecity’s Mark Davy’s celebration of the 15th anniversary of his cultural placemaking firm; Hawkins\ Brown’s Negar Mihanyar talking school design; and Opportunity London’s Jace Tyrrell’s paean to Soho, itself a model of diverse, high-quality bars and restaurants.

When, in 1987, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray opened the Michelin-starred River Café (the informal staff canteen for the Richard Rogers Partnership next door, and where Jamie Oliver’s career started) it marked an early case of connecting food with design, and with the city. It’s a linkage that can still provide some of the best, nourishing ingredients for London’s viable, fulfilling future.

Enjoy the issue!

David Taylor
Editor
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In the issue

FEATURES

Food Special
14
Featuring HTA Design, Morris+Company, HLW, LOM and Yolande Barnes

Top of their game
34
Louise Rodgers profiles Eric Parry Architects on its 40th anniversary

London Real Estate Forum Special
40
Our report from the highlights at this year’s show at the Barbican Centre

How we work
50
Ziona Strelitz takes an in-depth post-occupancy evaluation of Make Architects’ former car park office

New London Agenda Special
60
Professor Greg Clark with his final essay in the series, plus: meet the expert — Katrina Kostic Samen

Building review
80
Stanton Williams’s UCL East Marshgate, in focus

REGULARS

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

Viewpoint
8
We ask: will ULEZ be the undoing of Sadiq Khan?

Opinions
33 | 49 | 58
Featuring HUB, ADP Architecture, and Buckley Gray Yeoman

Best of the web
54
Hawkins\Brown’s Negar Mihanyar on Central Foundation Boys’ School and more

Letter from the boroughs
69
Councillor Anthony Okereke, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich on his home-building vision

Coffee break
94
Future City founder and CEO Mark Davy on the 15 years since the firm’s launch

My London
140
Opportunity London’s Jace Tyrell on his favourite places in the capital

PLUS...

Portfolio
6
New London Awards’ big winners this year, including Battersea Power Station

Murray Mint
12
Peter Murray on the UK’s fast- (and slow-) changing coastal towns

Project preview
46
Luka Vukotic of Art-Invest Real Estate on Dockside at Canada Water

Review
70
Peter Murray reviews How to be an architect developer by Gus Zogolovitch

Briefing notes
72
Our regular round-up of conferences and events at NLA

Market essay
100
By Cameron Ramsey and Chris Valentine of JLL

Annual NLQ subscription

David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Eric Parry

Principal
Eric Parry Architects

Ziona Strelitz

Director
ZZA Responsive User Environments

Prof. Greg Clark CBE

Senior Advsor
NLA

Katrina Kostic Samen

Head of Workplace Strategy and Design
KKS Savills

Negar Mihanyar

Partner & Education sector lead
Hawkins\Brown Ltd

Mark Davy

Founder & CEO
Futurecity

Jace Tyrrell

Chief Executive
Opportunity London


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