City Continuity Community Spitalfields Building, 2017 IMCL Honor Award London, Architecture Images

Norton Folgate: City Continuity Community Spitalfields

Spitalfields Historic Building Trust Project in Northeast London design by Burrell Foley Fischer Architects

21 Nov 2017

Norton Folgate City Continuity Community in Spitalfields

Design: Burrell Foley Fischer Architects

Location: Northeast London, England, UK

Images copyright Burrell Foley Fischer

Proposal for King’s College Strand:
Proposal for Smithfield General Market

Proposal for King’s College Strand:
Proposal for King’s College Strand

Proposal for Norton Folgate:
Norton Folgate Spitalfields building design

Proposal for Smithfield General Market:
Proposal for King’s College Strand in London
2017 IMCL Honor Award, Proposed Project – City Continuity Community

Architects: John Burrell, Burrell, Foley, Fisher, London, UK

Client: Spitalfields Historic Building Trust

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings
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Jury Statement:

This project to save the historic fabric and vibrant quality of life of a section of London has enormous international significance, especially now, when large scale demolition of swathes of historic cities around the world is accelerating.

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings

The Norton Folgate district was democratically designated a Conservation Area 40 years ago. Mayor Boris Johnson unilaterally swept that aside and declared it available for development.

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings

The area is now threatened with wholesale demolition of scores of premises and replacement with over-scaled office slabs and investment properties.

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings

Burrell Foley Fisher’s scheme demonstrates how to holistically protect the area’s rich heritage assets, retain the fine grained urban fabric, and enhance the character of ‘Place’, providing diverse jobs for local people, greatly increasing the housing, including affordable housing, and celebrating the presence, lives and works of Christopher Marlowe, Charles Dickens and Sir John Betjeman in Norton Folgate.

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings

The IMCL jury strongly condemns the undemocratic “taking” of urban districts and public streets by developer-oriented governments that amplify inequality; and supports the protection of fine-grained, diverse, human scale urban fabric, heritage assets, and character of ‘Place’ so admirably demonstrated in Burrell’s proposal for Norton Folgate.

Norton Folgate Spitalfields buildings

Burrell Foley Fischer

Project Statement: http://www.livablecities.org/sites/default/files/54_SantaFe/DesignAward_2017/City_Continuity_Community_Project_Statement.pdf

2018 IMCL Design Awards Program on Designing Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods: http://www.livablecities.org/conferences/55th-conference-ottawa/design-awards-competition

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Location: Spitalfields, Northeast London, England, UK

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