Exceptionally, for this year, instead of our usual educational architecture firm visits programme, we presented the contest "The power of architecture to impact my life". In partnership with the London Festival of Architecture and Bowerbird, and [...] Read more
Bloomberg by Foster + Partners is respectful of its location in the heart of the City of London, close to the Bank of England, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the church of St. Stephen’s Walbrook. In [...] Read more
The Millennium bridge by Foster + Partners springs from a creative collaboration between architecture, art and engineering. Developed with sculptor Anthony Caro and engineers Arup, the commission resulted from an international competition. London's only pedestrian [...] Read more
The courtyard at the centre of the British Museum was one of London’s long-lost spaces. Originally a garden, soon after its completion in the mid-nineteenth century it was filled by the round Reading Room and [...] Read more
Hawkins\Brown have been involved in the upgrade of the existing Tottenham Court Road LUL station for over 20 years, from concept design to construction stage. Tottenham Court Road is one of the busiest Underground stations [...] Read more
The London Bridge Station redevelopment is the culmination of six years of major work including wholesale complex multi-staged infrastructure realignment, setting a new benchmark of achievement. A holistic approach was taken throughout, placing sustainability at [...] Read more
The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, also known as the London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey, mixed-use tower located beside London Bridge Station on the south bank of the River Thames. This project was [...] Read more
Restoring one of the most influential and significant buildings in the canon of work by Sir John Soane is no light undertaking. Jestico + Whiles working in collaboration with Julian Harrap Architects have transformed Pitzhanger [...] Read more
30 St Mary Axe, aka The Gherkin, is the London’s first ecological tall building and an instantly recognisable addition to the city’s skyline, this headquarters designed for Swiss Re is rooted in a radical approach − technically, [...] Read more
Centre Point Tower was designed by George Marsh, Richard Seifert’s partner, in the 1960s, its modern materiality and imposing height represented a new generation of Londoners and the creative energy of the time. Despite its [...] Read more
Can a single building change Londoners’ perceptions of what it means to live in a high-rise? That’s precisely what The Stratford sets out to do. The 42-story tower’s site may seem an unlikely one for [...] Read more
In 1994 WilkinsonEyre won the competition for the redevelopment of the 150-year-old Stratford Station to help define a striking identity for the new Jubilee Line Extension. The project was highly complex as the design and [...] Read more
