New London Architecture

NLQ Issue 60

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David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Nick Walkley

Nick Walkley

Chief Executive
London Borough of Haringey

Kat Hanna

Managing Partner
Avison Young

Paul Williams

Director
Derwent London

Howard Dawber

Howard Dawber

Managing Director of Strategy
Canary Wharf Group

Laura Citron

Laura Citron

CEO
London & Partners

Roger Hawkins

Partner
Hawkins\Brown Ltd

With a new government now up and running, what can we expect to see for the built environment industry and for London?

We asked that question of a large group of individuals our Viewpoint section this time, with many citing the new alignment between central government and London and the need for more action on climate and housing, while Professor Yolande Barnes uses her column to address some of the key elements of Labour’s outlook. We also talk to two of the key people shaping London’s response and nurturing investment into the city, with deputy mayor for business and growth Howard Dawber and London and Partners’ Laura Citron grilled by Peter Murray about Opportunity London and beyond.

As LREF gets ready to open its doors at Guildhall, NLA’s Nick McKeogh charts the event’s history and looks forward to a ‘reimagined’ show, while Yoo Capital’s Lloyd Lee offers
a different kind of reimagining at Olympia to designs by Thomas Heatherwick and SPPARC. The scheme features in our Project Preview, while another reawakening figures in our Building Review, with Marylebone House reborn through Fletcher Priest Architects’ scheme for Beltane Asset Management.

One of the key developers at the forefront of shaping London’s similarly high-quality developments for the past 40 years is Derwent London. The firm features in our Q&A piece, with boss Paul Williams answering the questions.

I talk to Avison Young’s Nick Walkley — another LREF speaker — and Kat Hanna as Avison Young gears up to undergo an emblematic move of its UK offices to the Met Building on Tottenham Court Road about how they think the capital will shape up over the coming years with a new attitude to housing and development.

Roger Hawkins lifts the lid on how much Hawkins\Brown’s own move to new offices has fostered creative collaboration, Westminster shows us the next positive steps on Oxford Street, and in a new feature Connie Hatt brings the first of a series of Neighbourhood Stories — tales from community figures shaping the city. Finally, there’s a look back at the Paris Olympics from one of its key participants, WOO architects, and a look forward to the next in LA.

London is emerging into a new era. Here’s hoping it is a fruitful one, backed by strong and consistent decisions and policy. 

David Taylor
Editor
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In the issue

FEATURES

Top of their game
16
Avison Young’s Nick Walkley and Kat Hanna tell David Taylor why the firm is chipper about London’s prospects

This sporting life
26
WOO architects has its sights on LA28 after triumphing in Paris. By David Taylor

Profile
34
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is planning to shake up the architectural world — not least with a new emoji for the discipline. By David Taylor

Q&A
40
Derwent London Chief Executive Paul Williams looks back over the developer’s 40 influential years in the business

New Londoners
48
Capital fellows — Peter Murray quizzes Howard Dawber and Laura Citron about London’s opportunities

How we work
70
Roger Hawkins sets out how its new offices are changing the way the practice works

Building review
78
Marylebone House by Fletcher Priest Architects gets the building review treatment
REGULARS

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

Viewpoint 8
We ask: what are your hopes for the new government’s approach to the built environment and London?

Opinions 24 | 33 | 46
Opinions this time from Ryder Architecture, Solomon Green-Eames and AtkinsRéalis

Best of the web 58
Five minutes with... WilkinsonEyre Director Melissa Clinch

Column 60
Professor Yolande Barnes asks whether London real estate is ‘an object lesson in political futility’

Letter from the boroughs 62
Westminster’s Geoff Barraclough sets out the local authority’s latest plans for Oxford Street, and beyond

Coffee break 76
Child Graddon Lewis Director Arita Morris answers the questions

My London 90
Luka Vukotic of Art-Invest Real Estate waxes lyrical about Canada Water and the beauty of rowing
PLUS…

Portfolio 6
NLA has revealed the shortlist of ideas to ‘Reimagine London’

The Murray Lecture 14
Peter Murray’s inaugural Murray Lecture, by David Taylor

From the team 45
NLA’s Nick McKeogh previews this year’s London Real Estate Forum

NEW Neighbourhood stories 54
In the first of a new series profiling local heroes, Connie Hatt talks to Diane Foster, Director of A Space for Us — People’s Museum Somers Town

Project preview 64
Yoo Capital’s Lloyd Lee reveals the work in progress so far and vision for the future at Olympia

Market essay 92
By Mark Byles, Regeneration Director, and Rachel Lea, Associate, Planning, at Newsteer

Annual NLQ subscription

David Taylor

Editor, NLQ and New London Weekly

Nick Walkley

Nick Walkley

Chief Executive
London Borough of Haringey

Kat Hanna

Managing Partner
Avison Young

Paul Williams

Director
Derwent London

Howard Dawber

Howard Dawber

Managing Director of Strategy
Canary Wharf Group

Laura Citron

Laura Citron

CEO
London & Partners

Roger Hawkins

Partner
Hawkins\Brown Ltd


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