New London Architecture

NLQ Issue 58

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David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Graeme Craig

Director and Chief Executive - TTL Properties
Places for London

Jonny Popper

Chief Executive
LCA

Claire Bennie

Director
Municipal

Phil Coffey

Director
Coffey Architects

Peter Hendy

Chair
Network Rail

Emily Gabb

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Jon Eaglesham

Managing Director
Barr Gazetas

Jo Bacon

Partner
Allies and Morrison

Jace Tyrrell

Chief Executive
Opportunity London

What sort of city do we want London to be? How can we turn around some of the capital’s key problem areas — inequality, a lack of liveability, sustainability — and build on its fundamental advantages — its vibrancy, energy, culture and creativity?

That, in essence, is why NLA embarked on a journey with over 400 individuals and experts across
its community, honing their views and ideas into the New London Agenda — a blueprint for the city that it is hoped will form the bedrock of output from developers, architects, local authorities and anyone else who is part of shaping a better city.

This issue of NLQ presents a special feature on the Agenda, talking to many of its key instigators and shapers to see what inspires them about its content, and crucially how that can be carried forward. People like Graeme Craig, whose Places for London will do so much to put placemaking principles into action, as one of the city’s largest landowners and a real power-player in shifting perceptions. Expert Panel chairs have done a great deal to forge NLA thinking across all sectors — LCA’s Jonny Popper presents the case for planning as it seeks fresh impetus. And later this year we will unveil a new competition to seek the best ideas to reinforce that trajectory and ‘reimagine’ London.

Housing is a key component of any functioning city. We look at temporary solutions, while Claire Bennie, a stalwart in fighting for better conditions across the sector, considers how new ‘trees’ can be grown as the current one — the system — withers and is allowed to die. As we approach MIPIM and Opportunity London’s launch of a new investment prospectus, we talk to Jamestown boss Michael Phillips, whose firm’s own brand of mixed-use urban regeneration that has transformed areas of New York and Rotterdam would not look out of place in a revitalised central London. Jace Tyrrell spells out what the prospectus is all about, too.

Retrofit, another key component of London’s development in the coming decades, is part of Elliott Wood’s armoury from its Building Society base. The engineer is deemed ‘Top of their Game’ this time, expertly profiled by Louise Rodgers.

 Finally, we take a look at two key buildings with later living and care at their core — Mæ’s Stirling Prize winner, the John Morden Centre, and Coffey Architects’ Cobham Bowers. Both are taking care of their residents and the wider community, through high-quality architecture and sustainable development with wellbeing at their heart. In many ways, this is the New London Agenda, in action.

Enjoy the issue!

David Taylor
Editor
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In the issue

FEATURES

The New London Agenda Special
10
View on the Agenda, including Graeme Craig, profiled, and Planning Expert Panel chair Jonny Popper

Interview 26
Jamestown’s Mike Phillips on what makes for good places. By David Taylor

Top of their game 36
Louise Rodgers finds out what makes engineers Elliott Wood tick

Profile 42
Housing guru Claire Bennie on what’s needed for the sector. By David Taylor

 Learning from... 58
David Taylor travels to Austria and Switzerland to see Baumschlager Eberle’s 2226 concept in action

Building reviews 74 | 86
Later living in focus with Coffey’s Cobham Bowers and Mæ’s John Morden Centre

REGULARS

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

 Best of the web 50
On track — New Londoner of the Year Lord Hendy. By David Taylor

Columnist 54
Yolande Barnes looks back over a history of mayors in the capital

 Letters from the boroughs 56
We hear from Harrow and Lambeth in this quarter’s local authority letters

Coffee break 66
New NLA Tall Buildings Expert Panel chair Jo Bacon of Allies and Morrison answers the questions

My London 98
Barr Gazetas’ Jon Eaglesham pens his paean to central London

PLUS...

Portfolio
6
London from the sky, then and now, by photographer Jason Hawkes

Murray Mint 8
Peter Murray on Geoffrey
Bawa and post-colonial architecture from Sri Lanka

Opportunity London 34
Jace Tyrrell spells out Opportunity London’s new investment prospectus

From the team 48
Emily Gabb puts the spotlight on temporary homeless accommodation

Project preview 68
British Land’s Norton Folgate, including new occupier Reed Smith

Market essay 96
Avison Young’s Adrian Boyce reflects on the state of the market

Annual NLQ subscription

David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Graeme Craig

Director and Chief Executive - TTL Properties
Places for London

Jonny Popper

Chief Executive
LCA

Claire Bennie

Director
Municipal

Phil Coffey

Director
Coffey Architects

Peter Hendy

Chair
Network Rail

Emily Gabb

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Yolande Barnes

Yolande Barnes

Chair
Bartlett Real Estate Institute

Jon Eaglesham

Managing Director
Barr Gazetas

Jo Bacon

Partner
Allies and Morrison

Jace Tyrrell

Chief Executive
Opportunity London


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