Seminars on Tour
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Thursday 27 May (14.00-17.00)*
*The BCO reserves the right to amend the programme and timings,
in particular the departure times of tours.
T1
OLYMPIC SITE
This session is fully booked.
SPEAKER
Huw Edwards Olympic Delivery Authority
The construction of the Olympic Park is now well underway and by the time of site tour will be in the middle of Phase 3: The Big Build which comprises the contruction of the "big five" venues in the Olympic Park. With a total programme of 7 years and a budget of £8 billion this is one of the largest construction projects in the history of the UK.
Delegates will receive a briefing on progress to date and to taken on a bus tour of the Olympic Park which will drive past all of the major facilities under construction. This will include the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Velodrome and Olympic Village.
T2
CANARY WHARF
SPEAKERS
Richard Archer Canary Wharf Group
Howard Dawber Canary Wharf Group
Jim Berry Canary Wharf Group
Paul Mutti Canary Wharf Contractors
David Hodge Canary Wharf Contractors
Camille Waxer Canary Wharf Group
Cormac MacGrann Canary Wharf Contractors
GUIDES
Guy Dare Canary Wharf Contractors
Steven Andrews Canary Wharf Contractors
Maurice Peakin Canary Wharf Contractors
Canary Wharf is London's third Business District and comprises circa 15 million sq ft of office and retail space with a working population of approximately 90,000 people. When current construction is complete this will increase by a further 1.4 million sq ft of office space and 70,000 sq ft of retail.
The tour will consist of two main elements - a presentation in the show suite which contains a vast 1:150 scale model of the entire Estate and will cover a wide range of topics including transport, planning, infrastructure, sustainability and construction. The second element will be a guided tour of the Estate to include parks, transport connections, retail, building lobbies and office space.
T3
PADDINGTON
GUIDES
Richard Banks European Land (Merchant Square)
Simon Hesketh Development Securities (PaddingtonCentral)
This tour is an opportunity to visit one of the most significant modern regeneration projects in London. Covering an area the size of Soho, £2 billion has already been invested in the 80 acre scheme, delivery over 1.4 million sq ft of commercial space and over 900 residential units.
Paddington Waterside is made up of 14 individual development schemes and is 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport, with construction for Crossrail commencing in 2011. More than 2 million sq ft of commercial space and 1,000 residential units are in the pipeline.
The tour will visit two of the major anchor developments, and will include a talk by Graham King, Head of Strategic Planning at Westminster City Council.
Merchant Square
Merchant Square is home to tenants such as Orange and Marks & Spencer. The first two buildings of Phase 2, 1 Merchant Square and Waterline House, are due for completion in 2010.
PaddingtonCentral
This visit will include a tour of Two Kingdom Street, the 235,000 sq ft Grade A office building completing in early 2010 and partly pre-let to AstraZeneca.
T4
KING'S CROSS
This session is fully booked on Thursday 27 May but places still remain on Friday 28.
An opportunity to visit the emerging devel
opment at King's Cross Central (KXC). KXC is the most significant development in Central London with planning permission for 8 million sq ft of mixed use including 4.9 million sq ft of offices as well as the University of the Arts London (opens 2011), new hotels (the first hotel opens in 2012), student housing (planned for 2012), 500,000 sq ft of retail and 2,000 homes and serviced apartments. The project includes some 50 new buildings and the refurbishment of some 20 historic buildings and structures, all set within world class public realm. The project encompasses 20 brand new streets and 10 major new public spaces. The first phase of works is on site and being delivered by the King's Cross Central Limited Partnership.
The tour will take in the 'German Gymnasium' exhibition and marketing suite, presentations from those directly involved in the project and a site visit. It will cover the current works programme; the latest office designs; and the infrastructure now being delivered to provide low-carbon, decentralised energy, for example the energy centre which will include gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP), gas fired boilers, biomass and a fuel cell.
T5
REGENT'S PLACE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sir Terry Farrell Terry Farrell and Partners
Regent's Place, originally conceived in the 1960s as the Euston Centre, has undergone a re-birth since it was bought by British Land 25 years ago. A large part of this re-birth has been orchestrated by Sir Terry Farrell's masterplan for not only the estate but the wider area, including his work on the Euston Road corridor.
Regent's Place is a 13 acre estate in London's West End which fronts onto the Euston Road between Great Portland Street and Warren Street tube stations. It comprises of 7 office buildings, a residential block, retail, leisure and a new community theatre totalling approximately 1.5 million sq ft. In addition planning consent has been granted for the final phase of development which will provide an additional half a million sq ft of offices, retail and residential.
The first phase of the masterplan is now a reality and the developer, the architects, the planners and their local community invite you to join them on a whistle stop journey into their relationships and challenges along the way.
After an introduction by Sir Terry Farrell into the philosophy behind the masterplan, a selection of speakers will be given five minutes each to tell you the story from their perspective. Afterwards there will be various tours around the estate. The speakers will include the architect, the developer, the planner, the landscaper, the environmentalist, the project manager, the local community, the new theatre, the estate manager, the leasing agent and the occupiers.
T6
CITY TOWER BUILDINGS
This session is fully booked.
CHAIRMAN
Ken Shuttleworth Make Architects
SPEAKERS
Rafael Viñoly Rafael Viñoly Architects
Andy Young Rogers Stirk Harbour
Timothy Poell Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Paul Burgess British Land
Peter Ferrari Heron
William Matthews Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Few subjects have generated as much interest and discussion in recent years as the development of tall buildings in central London. Many have been discussed and as yet only a select number have been built. Chaired by Ken Shuttleworth of Make and taking place in British Land's 165m tall Broadgate Tower these sessions will draw on both the experiences of those who have built tall and those who are now, or about to do so.
Featured buildings will include:
The Broadgate Tower the first speculative tower in the City and the first to be delivered by a developer.
Heron Tower promising to set new standards in occupier service and amenity.
The Shard delivering large scale high level mixed use for the first time in London.
The Pinnacle set to become the City's tallest building at 288m.
The Leadenhall Building striking sculptural form opposite Lloyd's.
20 Fenchurch Street unique architectural profile and concept.
T7
CITY LAWYERS' OFFICE SHOWCASE
This session is fully booked.
SPEAKER
Katrina Kostic Samen KKS Strategy
The legal profession perennially looks to the authority of tradition, often reinforced by the auspices of the buildings in which it is practised. In terms of the legal office, gravitas and status have long been physically interpreted through the use of traditional materials and hierarchical space allocation.
With modern drivers of spatial efficiency and colleglate work practices, how has the legal profession adapted to contemporary trends? This tour takes a progressive route through the factors leading legal firms from the prestige of tradition towards judicious innovation.
This City of London tour looks at the past, present and future of the legal workplace. Taking in 5-6 practices either with multi-tenant office towers such as the Gherkin or their own HQ buildings. The tour focuses on the evolution of working culture, as expressed through the spatial dynamics and aesthetics of a legal office.
T8
CITY WALKING TOUR
This session is fully booked.
GUIDES
Peter Wynne Rees City Planning Officer
Paul Finch Chairman, CABE
This tour will walk the City looking at recent and current development sites, discussing the architectur and planning ideas which have produced the City in its current form, and reviewing the buildings and spaces which have revived the City as a world class environment in which to conduct business.
Starting at the Millennium Bridge, taking in St Paul's environs, Paternoster Square, Cheapside, Walbrook, Watermark Place, Fenchurch Street, St Mary's Axe, Cornhill, Gresham Street, Wood Street and alleys en route.
T9
SOUTHBANK
SPEAKERS
William Beardmore-Gray Knight Frank
Paul Harrington PricewaterhouseCoopers
In 1998 More London Development Limited purchased 13 acres of land on the Southbank of the Thames between London and Tower Bridge. Over the last 10 years the development team have pre-let and built approximately 3 million sq ft of office, hotel, retail and leisure accommodation.
Tenants include some of the best known names in the financial, professional and marketing sectors and include the GLA, Ernst & Young, Norton Rose, Lawrence Graham , Hewitt Associates, Terra Firma, Red Bull and the Hilton group as well as a number of household names in the leisure and retail market such as M&S, Caffè Nero, Gaucho Grill and Strada.
The tour will include a presentation by the development team outlining the vision for the scheme and the challenges overcom. The highlight will be a unique opportunity to view PricewaterhouseCoopers' new 400,000 sq ft headquarters at More London prior to their occupation, which through outstanding design and collaboration between the developer and the tenant will create an exemplary energy efficient central London headquarters building.
T10
CENTRAL SAINT GILES
SPEAKERS
Simon Wilkes Legal & General Property
Joost Moolhuijzen/Maurits van der Staay Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Ron German Stanhope plc
Central Saint Giles will be Renzo Piano's first completed building in the UK and contains 400,000 sq ft of offices on 43,000 sq ft floor plates with breathtaking views across London. The development also includes 109 private/affordable apartments in a separate building and 11 cafes/restaurants surrounding a public plaza. The mixed use scheme is at the heart of the Saint Giles area and will create strong links with the adjoining neighbourhoods acting as a catalyst for further enhancements to this corner of London.
The architecture has created a striking new landmark for London defined by its dramatic glazed ceramic facades in red, orange, green and yellow. The scheme is bringing a sense of joy and vibrancy to the revitalised area of Saint Giles. The 6m high transparent ground floor creates routes and views through the site and will create a new restaurant destination in London.
This seminar will focus on the challenges this project faced in terms of policy conflicts, public realm and the requirement to achieve high densities in a sensitive location whilst being commercially viable. The speakers will discuss the brief which was set to create a new place and the best working envinroment and the way the architecture and building have responded to the complex requirements.
The seminar will be followed by a tour of the offices, restaurants, housing and public plazza.
T11
VICTORIA
The recent announcement of Victoria's Business Improvement District (BID) status will further promote the rapid pace of change that has been kicked off by Land Securities with the completion of its award winning Cardinal Place scheme, its innovative mixed-use residential scheme Wilton Plaza, and planning consent for its 1 million sq ft regeneration project known as VT12. This change is not before its time; Victoria Street had become a grey interchange where people chose to pass through hurriedly on a journey, not dwell and enjoy their surroundings. The Cardinal Place development has been the catalyst to change all that.
The BID will see a further £7.8 million invested in the regeneration of the area over the next five years. Land Securities however, will be incesting a whole lot more with their extensive programme of regeneration. Having announced their intent to start developing along Victoria Street, at Selbourne House, Land Securities will be shaping the future of Victoria and its communities.
This tour will feature a past, present and future study of Victoria and how its future is unfolding. It will include an opportunity to discuss the plans with Land Securities team tased with the responsibility of regenerating a significant sector of the West End which is important in maintaining London's status as a World City.
Friday 28 May (14.00-17.00)*
*The BCO reserves the right to amend the programme and timings, in particular the departure times of tours.
T12
OLYMPIC SITE
This session is fully booked.
T13
CANARY WHARF
T14
PADDINGTON
T15
KING'S CROSS
This session is fully booked.
T16
REGENT'S PLACE
T17
CITY TOWER BUILDINGS
T18
CITY LAWYER'S OFFICE SHOWCASE
This session is fully booked.
T19
CITY WALKING TOUR
This session is fully booked.
T20
SOUTHBANK
T21
CENTRAL SAINT GILES
T22
LONDON ESTATES PUBLIC REALM
Grosvenor
SPEAKER
Giles Clarke Grosvenor
Public realm has consistently, over the past 300 years, played an important role in the development of Grosvenor's London Estate. The space between buildings remains of importance to continue Mayfair's pre-eminences as a location to work, live and visit. Through an innovative partnership with Westminster City Council, Grosvenor continues to invest heavily in public realm.
The presentation will provide an insight into Grosvenor's 'Places for People' strategy, undertaken with internationally renowned urban design consultant Jan Gehl and its implementation in partnership with Westminster City Council on the Estate. In particular the added value good public realm brings to Grosvenor's portfolio.
The Crown Estate
SPEAKER
David Shaw The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a diverse £6 billion property organisation dating from around 1066. Since 2002 it has been focused on a £750 million regeneration and repositioning programme in Regent Street, a four million sq ft mixed use portfolio, which it owns in its entirety. Whilst historically better know as a retail destination, over two thirds of new space being created through regeneration is offices as against retail. Alongside ten developments completed or under construction, some seven public realm projects have been delivered or are underway; these are key to the Street's success as an office location and international business destination. David Shaw, Head of Regent Street Portfolio at The Crown Estate, has led the team throughout.
After a presentation from David Shaw at The Crown Estate's new offices just off Regent Street there will be a tour of the Street focused on public realm and sustainability.