by Chris | Apr 11, 2014 | Articles, Creative Places, Place Making, Uncategorized
It’s great when a plan works out. Last Wednesday, I participated in a London First forum entitled: “Go West and Innovate: Opportunity White City.” The purpose was to outline the progress being made on regenerating the White city area of the London Borough of...
by Chris | Feb 11, 2014 | Articles, Creative Places, Design & construction, Place Making, Workplace Strategy
Last week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Argent’s Roger Madelin CBE to take a look at the work of the last decade the King’s Cross regeneration scheme. The marketing pack urges that the vision for King’s Cross aims to capture hearts and minds: after my...
by Chris | Jan 24, 2014 | Articles, BBC Estate story, Creative Places, Place Making, Workplace Strategy
Now that the BBC, amongst others, are comfortably settled at Media City UK – their new home in the North of England, I dropped in for a visit, just before Christmas, to check on progress. I came away feeling that the vision has truly come to life and that things...
by Chris | Dec 23, 2013 | Articles, BBC Estate story, BBC Television Centre, Creative Places, Place Making
Last Thursday was another red-letter day for Television Centre (TVC) as it marked the granting of planning consent for the master plan proposed by Stanhope the new owners of the former BBC campus. As someone who is involved in the shaping of the next chapter...
by Chris | Nov 29, 2013 | Articles, Creative Places, Place Making
The former hub of shipbuilding in Belfast shrouded in all of its Industrial Age heritage is poised to become a dynamic, new “smart place.” Hailed as one of the largest waterfront regeneration projects in the world and in close proximity to the city centre, I...
by Chris | Nov 12, 2013 | Articles, Creative Places, Future of Work, Place Making
Last night I attended the Thinkers 50 Awards: a remarkable event hosted in a remarkable location – Drapers Hall, London. Given that some of the world’s top thinkers were present I wondered why the organisers chose this location for their equivalent of...
