📢 Roll up, roll up. It's NLQ time! 📢
I'm super proud to say that the latest edition is now out, just in time for the London Real Estate Forum taking place this Wednesday at the Guildhall in the City.
📸 Two of the key figures sure to figure in that show and most others on the built environment patch - Nick Walkley and Kat Hanna - grace our front cover this time, and inside discuss all things Avison Young │ UK, London, their office move, and more.
🌆 Peter Murray OBE talks to Howard Dawber and Laura Citron OBE about Opportunity London and the state of the city, while Peter's own annual Murray lecture is covered, along with his plea for a new design advisor for the capital.
💪 What can we expect to see for the built environment industry and London from the new(ish) government?
We asked that question of a large group of individuals for the ‘Viewpoint’ section, with many citing the potentially positive new alignment between central government and London and the need for more action on climate and housing, while Prof Yolande Barnes uses her column to address some of the key elements of Labour’s outlook.
🎪 NLA’s Nick McKeogh Hon FRIBA charts LREF'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 Heatherwick studio and SPPARC. The scheme is our project review this time, while another reawakening figures in our full 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 and retrofits for the last 40 years is Derwent London. The influential firm is celebrated in our Q&A piece, with boss Paul Williams answering the questions.
🏣 Roger Hawkins lifts the lid on how much Hawkins\Brown 's own move to new offices has fostered creative collaboration; Westminster City Council 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. 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.
🚣♂️ There's so much more besides, including a fascinating exercise being undertaken currently by CHYBIK + KRISTOF ARCHITECTS to devise a new emoji for architecture (within a feature on the practice), interviews with Arita Morris of CGL ARCHITECTS, Melissa Clinch and rower extraordinaire Luka Vukotic of Art-Invest Real Estate, plus opinion pieces from Ryder Architecture and AtkinsRéalis.
Oh, and there's a piece by Solomon Green-Eames previewing NLA's launch of its Repower London report next month.
As ever, so many people to thank, but a big shout out to designer Stefano Meroni, who effortlessly makes things just so, and photographer Grant Smith, for eking out such personality from his subjects.
Enjoy!