Agenda item

There was one item of urgent business.

The Chairman highlighted the following:

The 8 Bishopsgate tower was awarded the best tall building in the world for its height category at the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awards last week. The tower was an exemplary collaboration between City planning officers and the applicant and was directly informed by the need to respect heritage views of St Paul's.

In the same awards, 21 Moorfields was awarded the international award for structural ingenuity. Members will have been sent an invitation to visit this completed scheme in the coming weeks, the City HQ of Deutsche Bank

8 Bishopsgate was also awarded the City Building of the Year award by the Architects Company.

More evidence of the world class architecture being delivered through the City's Planning team and both buildings almost entirely let showing the vigour of occupier demand in the City.

Members will also note the invitation to visit the completed Fredericks Place scheme with a new pedestrian arcade linking Fredericks Place with Ironmongers Lane and a new colonnade walkway along Ironmonger Lane with a new archive centre for the Mercers Company, an exceptional sensitive and contextual scheme. 

The City of London Building Control team have been nominated for the LABC Building Excellence Awards as the national, “Best Local Authority Building Control Team”.

The City also has two other finalists, as they have won the London region awards.

8 Bishopsgate for the “Best Non-residential New Build”, and James Binstead as the “LABC Newcomer of the Year”. James is on his final year of a 4 year apprenticeship program.