Lee Mallett

2 weeks ago | cityarchitectureforum.org | Lee Mallett

“East is best, the West is the rest” was a saying in Shoreditch’s artist-led renaissance back in the 1990s, affirmation that a new place was emerging. We’re talking pre-Tea Building and way before Shoreditch House opened in 2007 - when nearly all buildings in Hoxton Square were vacant. Times were tough and interest rates went over 10%, remember that?

Feb 18, 2025 | cityarchitectureforum.org | Lee Mallett

The 4 ha Truman Brewery site which members visited in February, courtesy of development manager Grow Places, like British Land’s nearby Norton Folgate site, has proved controversial and is the subject of three planning applications now in public consultation. Founded in 1666 and the world’s largest brewery by 1873 before its closure in 1989, the site lies at the heart of Spitalfields and the Brick Lane neighbourhood.

Nov 7, 2024 | cityarchitectureforum.org | Lee Mallett

The City Corporation will work “collaboratively and transparently” with developers, architects and their teams alongside businesses to deliver “Destination City”, the object of City Plan 2040, the new Director of Environment, Katie Stewart (below, middle right), told a packed City Architecture Forum annual dinner.

Oct 29, 2024 | cityarchitectureforum.org | Lee Mallett

We cherish what Fleet Street was. It is part of London’s main processional route linking our rulers in the City of Westminster to the west with the original City in the east and London’s  principal built icon, St Paul’s Cathedral. But it is, said Ian Mulcahey of Gensler, designers of the City Corporation’s new public ream strategy for the area, ‘a street that lost its way’.