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Tour: Angel Square – reinventing a complex urban site

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Angel Square , 1 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NY

Join City Architecture Forum for an architect-led tour of Angel Square, a major mixed-use development by Tishman Speyer, designed by AHMM, that reimagines a prominent corner site in Islington. Built over Angel tube station incorporating retained structure, the scheme demonstrates how complex conditions produce opportunities for reinvention and activation.

The scheme, engineered by AKT-II, unites three former PoMo office buildings in a cohesive 187,400 sq ft workplace, anchored by a permeable, active ground floor. A repositioned public house, a new civic-scale lobby onto Islington High Street and direct access to Angel station generate a new relationship between building, street and city.

Attendees will gain first-hand insight into the design and delivery of a complex retrofit-led scheme, including:

Grand lobby and…

Insights

Over the tracks at One Liverpool Street

By David Lawrence, MD of Architects Flanagan Lawrence

CAF members were very pleased to be able to visit the nearly completed project at 1 Liverpool Street this week. Robert Kennett, Lee Higson and Rupert Willard from Eric Parry Architects together with Ben Stallward from Aviva Investors and Jonathan Emmines, Martin Bailey and Levan Sichinava from Mace gave an...

2 Aldermanbury Square

By Christopher Breiner

We are sincerely grateful to our hosts and guides, Piers Blewitt, Director of Development Management at Great Portland Estates (GPE), and Artur Carulla, Partner at Allies and Morrison Architects. CAF members and their guests were afforded a rare privilege: visiting the project shortly after practical completion, just days before the...

Refurbishing retrofit as ‘FutureFit’

By Lee Mallett

Rebranding retrofit as ‘FutureFit’ to generate a more positive, forward-looking image and removing or reducing VAT on refurb projects, with developers incentivised to pursue retrofit first through a reward based planning approach, were suggestions at CAF’s Retrofit at Scale event, hosted by architect and design firm Gensler. Gensler’s Co-Managing Director...

Helical’s 100 New Bridge Street nears completion

By Lee Higson, Eric Parry Architects

CAF members visited the soon-to-be-completed project at 100 New Bridge Street, a retrofit project of an existing building (completed in 1992) to renew the life of the building to meet current tenant requirements and environmental standards. Developed by Helical and Orion, with architects Gensler and main contractor Mace, the project...

‘CAF 2.0’ forges ahead

By Andrew Reynolds

2025 was the first year of ‘CAF 2.0’ – an evolution of the Forum responding to the new era opening up in the City of London, and to look ahead to 2026, our 35th anniversary since we were founded in 1991. So, what has changed? Our new Operations Director Jenny...

New embodied-carbon contender for Farringdon

By Lee Mallett

The City may have a contender for best-in-class when it comes to the lowest levels of embodied carbon for a new building....

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