The City Architecture Forum is a membership group for anyone interested in the architecture, urban design, public realm and planning of the City of London.

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Talk: Reclaiming the City’s riverside with a waterfront renaissance

Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

HawkinsBrown , 30 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5PG

Join the City Architecture Forum to explore four new Thames riverside spaces, led by HawkinsBrown, now transforming London’s riverfront.

The four new riverside public spaces built above the Thames Tideway Tunnel in central London will be the subject of a City Architecture Forum talk hosted by HawkinsBrown who oversaw the projects, now open and already enhancing London’s relationship with its river.

A focus will be Bazalgette Embankment in the City, at 1.5 acres the largest of the four and the most substantial new riverside space in central London for a century. Lying next to Blackfriars Bridge, it highlights how further public realm improvements might bring new life to the City’s stretch of riverside.

The talk will also look at Tyburn…

Insights

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

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Helical’s 100 New Bridge Street nears completion

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‘CAF 2.0’ forges ahead

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New embodied-carbon contender for Farringdon

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Yesterday's journey through One Leadenhall Street was nothing short of architectural poetry in motion....

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