mixed use
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 2024
14-15 Blossom Street, E1 6PL
Join an architect-led tours of the newly completed Norton Folgate development. Explore the newly enhanced public spaces, see how historic buildings have been brought back into use, and take a look within the buildings which will be home to the burgeoning tech and creative industries in the Spitalfields and Shoreditch area.
Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street, Shoreditch High Street
Drop-In exhibition venue: 14-15 Blossom Street, E1 6PL. Walking tours will start from this location.
The Norton Folgate site, comprising three urban blocks, falls within the Elder Street Conservation Area and occupies a prominent position on the city fringe between the City of London and Shoreditch. While the Conservation Area is small, there are dramatic changes in character from one street to the next. The masterplan has been developed to respond to this mixed character, bringing vacant or underused buildings back into use and reconnecting and enhancing the public realm.
Rather than applying a blanket strategy, the masterplan takes a building-by-building approach to the retained existing buildings, including restoration, refurbishment, extension, remodelling and some facade retention, as well as introducing sensitively designed new buildings in a palette of materials including brick, selected for its robustness, quality and appropriateness to the Conservation Area’s character.
The masterplan responds to the opportunity to increase employment, improve the environment and reconnect the site with the surrounding area. The office component will provide a range of different office types and floor plate sizes to attract a range of tenants from more mature firms to startups and local small and medium sized businesses, and will appeal to the burgeoning tech and creative industries in the Spitalfields and Shoreditch area.
AHMM is masterplanner and lead architect, designing three buildings within the masterplan, with Stanton Williams, Morris + Company and DSDHA designing the other three buildings. The new public realm, designed by EAST, enhances the tight network of existing streets and the busy roads of Shoreditch High Street and Commercial Street; three new yard spaces draw on the character of the surrounding historic blocks, while active frontages at ground animate the new yards and open space.
Drop in / Guided tour
institution/profession, historical house
A rare opportunity to explore the Georgian headquarters of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), the UK’s oldest building conservation charity, not normally open to the public.
Unknown, 1740
