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ISSUE ONE AUTUMN 2018 ONE CROWN PLACE 18 Speaking to Nobu head chef and founder about the opening of his first European hotel in . Contents 4–5 The City of is changing No longer just a place to do business 6–7 The One Crown Place neighbourhood Some of the landmarks and highlights

28 10–11 The City in numbers Examining From financial services to restaurants and hotels the changing identity of 12–13 Fine dining the City. The heartlands of London’s sophisticated cuisine 14–15 Everyday eats Sample food from all over the world 16–17 Not just the financial markets The legacy of a city built on trade 18–19 Nobu Shoreditch gets a taste for proper sushi 20–21 The clubs A lot of work requires a great deal of play 22–23 Boutique fitness Find somewhere new to break a sweat and shape up 24–25 Meet our residents Those who will call One Crown Place home 26–27 Education The City has become Some of the capital’s most celebrated learning institutions a destination in its own right. 28–29 The creative City The offering in relation The Square Mile gets creative with work space 30–31 The hotel at One Crown Place to retail, food, entertainment The past, present and future of a truly unique destination and shared workspace has 32–33 The Elizabeth Line changed immeasurably. Travel times across London are being halved 21 34–35 Meet the neighbours The City is a great place to live

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One Crown Place is an island site on the edge of the City of London, located at the confluence of the capital’s most prosperous and fast-growing markets.

he City of London has been No longer primarily a place of No longer one of the world’s most business, this vibrant and constantly primarily a place Timportant urban centres for evolving community is one of the most of business, this almost 2,000 years. Its success is due attractive places to live on earth. 2009 to its ability to quickly respond and vibrant and evolve to the demands of its people AlloyMtd chose One Crown Place to Shoreditch constantly evolving through organic growth rather than be their first mixed-use development part of a master plan. Entrepreneurs in the UK, because they knew it to House community is continue to be drawn to the City for be at the heart of the most exciting, Private members’ club. one of the most the same reason they always have, it creative and fastest developing part still offers the best opportunities in of London. These attributes aligned attractive places the world. perfectly with their vision. Here we A members’ club with to live on earth. explore the recent rise of the City bedrooms in a converted The City’s culture and entertainment and its fringe. East London warehouse. offering, spanning Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and Old Street, reflects Discover its casual dining room, a new generation of City worker. deli bar and fireplace with spectacular views over the City and Shoreditch. Savour every morsal from a menu of house favourites and seasonal dishes. Then, cool off with a dip in the rooftop pool. A changing culture Ebor Street, E1 6AW The story of the City’s changing identity and residents. 10 mins

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2012 / South Place Hotel 2012 / Tramshed 2012 / SushiSamba 2013 / Ace Hotel 2013 / The Clove Club Art hotel with a Michelin-starred Art inspired restaurant. Cuisine: unique blend of Japanese, Stylish hotel and bar in the heart One of the world’s top 30 restaurants restaurant, Angler. Brazilian and Peruvian. of Shoreditch. (2017) opens. 6 7 ONE CROWN PLACE

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2014 / Fat Buddha Yoga 2014 / City Social 2014 / The Walkie Talkie opening 2014 / The Cheesegrater opening 2014 / UBS Broadgate Pop-up yoga studio. 24th floor Michelin star restaurant. Skyscraper with 35th floor Sky Garden. Another iconic edition to the City’s skyline. Swiss banking giants open European headquarters. 8 9 ONE CROWN PLACE

Zurich 6% Michelin star restaurants London 58% within 20 mins The City walk of OCP. What is the Dublin best European 22% city for in numbers Lisbon business? 3% Düsseldorf 3% Geneva 6% The City contributes Brussels 3% Over 70 hotels Image have opened in 3% of the UK’s 1,200 1. The City at twilight new start-up businesses the City and the each year in the City 1 surrounding areas in national income. the last five years

56% 46% of London’s increase in retail and financial services coffee shop floorspace workforce are over the past decade. employed in the City. London’s leadership talent is drawn from 95 nationalities, making it the most diverse $2.7 TRILLION in the world. per day of foreign exchange transactions happen in the City, that’s over 40% of London’s total.

2014 / WeWork 2015 / Barry’s Bootcamp 2015 / Dinerama 2015 / Som Saa 2015 / Rapha World’s largest shared workspace High-intensity workout gym opens Street food market and bars. Cuisine: Thai. Renowned cycling brand launches provider launches in London. in Shoreditch. in Liverpool St. 10 11 ONE CROWN PLACE

3 The Clove Club 13 mins Voted 33rd best restaurant in the world during 2018, Fine The Clove Club serves elegant British cuisine exclusively in five and 10 Michelin seven course tasting menus. dining Two Lights: the sister restaurant of the Clove Club 33rd stars is coming this Autumn. best restaurant London is one of the top-ranked cities in the within 20 minutes thecloveclub.com in the world world for fine dining, and the City and Shoreditch of One Crown Place are the heartlands of its sophisticated cuisine. Galvin La Chapelle 4 Lyles 8 mins 10 mins Angler at South Place Hotel 1 Holding a Michelin star since 2011, Seasonal British food served within a 3 mins Galvin La Chapelle serves a menu of paired back, minimalist dining room. Driven by the electric energy and polished French cuisine that gives a Voted one of the top 50 restaurants talent of celebrated head chef Gary modern flare to classic dishes. in the world, the à la carte lunch and Foulkes, Angler serves the best of galvinrestaurants.com/s/61/ four-course dinner menus change on British seafood and seasonal produce. galvin-la-chapelle a daily basis. Having previously headed up the lyleslondon.com kitchen at the two Michelin-starred St. John Mayfair restaurant, The Square, Foulke’s 20 mins 6 move to the east is testament to a shift Opened in Smithfield in 1994 and in focus on the fine dining scene. awarded a Michelin star in 2009. anglerrestaurant.com Typical dishes include pigs’ ears, La Dame de Pic Images ducks’ hearts, trotters, pigs’ tails, bone 12 mins 1. Seafood at Angler marrow and, when in season, squirrel. 2. Dining room at Leroy High-end French menus in a dramatic 3. Tasting courses at The Clove Club stjohnrestaurant.com hotel setting. The first UK venture 4. The bar at Galvin La Chapelle for chef Anne-Sophie Pic who has 5. Jason Atherton, City Social City Social previously gained a huge reputation 6. Lyles, Shoreditch 10 mins for her numerous restaurants on One of Jason Atherton’s acclaimed the continent – most notably the Leroy Brat 2 restaurants, serving modern British three Michelin star restaurant Pic in 7 mins 11 mins cuisine with outstanding views over Valence, the one star La Dame de Pic Awarded its Michelin star in 2018, Also awarded its Michelin star in 2018. London from its 24th floor location. in Paris and the two-star restaurant at Leroy is a new Parisian-style wine bar With an unusual mix of Welsh, English jasonatherton.co.uk/restaurants/ Beau-Rivage Palace in Switzerland. and bistro from the team behind the and Basque influences, Brat is unlike city-social ladamedepiclondon.co.uk Michelin-starred Ellory. Co-owner any other Shoreditch hotspot. A solo 5 and sommelier Ed Thaw commented: venture from Kitty Fisher’s former Club Gascon “There is a new energy about head chef Tomos Parry, it specialises 18 mins 38th Shoreditch. There’s a wave of quality in turbot. The menu’s headliner is the Serving classic southern French cuisine places coming from friends of ours in 1.2kg turbot sharing plate – delicious best restaurant since 1998, Club Gascon is a staple of in the world the next year and in March especially. and overwhelming in equal measure. the London food scene. During this We can’t wait to get into it.” bratrestaurant.com time, it has been awarded numerous (source: Just London) accolades including its Michelin star leroyshoreditch.com which it gained in 2002. clubgascon.com

2016 / Devonshire Club & Hotel 2016 / Three Cranes 2016 / Zadig and Voltaire 2016 / Rag and Bone 2016 / Lululemon Private members’ club with 68 bedroom hotel. British bar, dining room Parisian clothing and lifestyle store. Chic American outfitters. High-end fitness clothing. and boutique hotel. 12 13 I T H W L U W C E A I 32 V B A

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11 mins O After three and half years Everyday in Soho, Smoking Goat owner, Ben Chapman, decided to make the move to Eataly Shoreditch. The restaurant serves a variety of dishes Eataly is to open its first UK eats inspired by Thai street food, location at Broadgate’s 135 all of which are prepared in 2020. They’ve Sample food from all over the world. Delicious over charcoal to give a truly signed an agreement for authentic flavour. 42,000 sq ft on the ground and first floors of the building. dim sum one night, mouth-watering steaks the smokinggoatbar.com next – all minutes from One Crown Place. Luca Baffigo, CEO of Eataly, said that another London food market was one of the early inspirations Hawksmoor 1 Temper for the entire Eataly project: 11 mins 10 mins “Visiting Borough Market before An East London success story, In addition to a wide selection of opening our first restaurant in Hawksmoor’s original steak restaurant wines, tequila, mezcal and gin, Temper Italy was really eye-opening,” he and cocktail bar was established in specialises in steak, chicken and fish said. “This is why opening a place Spitalfields during 2006 and has since all of which is cooked over one of the in London where people can buy, opened in five other locations across world’s largest restaurant fire-pits. eat and learn is a very important the UK. temperrestaurant.com/temper-city and exciting milestone. Being able thehawksmoor.com to bring our model into a place that is so significant for us fills us Oklava with satisfaction and stimulates us 8 mins to create in London a wonderful Nuala Images Having previously run a number of multifunctional experience.” 7 mins 1. Interior of Nuala popular pop-ups across London, Selin 2. Anglo-French cuisine at St. Leonards Kiazim launched her first permanent Recently opened by Niall Davidson, 3. The bustling open kitchen at Smoking Goat restaurant – Oklava. Serving Turkish- of Chiltern Firehouse, Nuala is an 4. Computer generated image of Eataly Luca Baffigo Cypriot sharing plates since 2015, it all-day restaurant and Irish bar with CEO of Eataly has been a huge success and is now sleek relaxed seating centred around Source: Eater.com opening a sister restaurant in Fitzrovia. the brick-lined open fireplace. Serving dishes like steak tartare with Guinness oklava.co.uk sauce and squid and bacon broth it marks a new stage in the evolution of 4 2 Anglo-Irish bistronomy. nualalondon.com Yauatcha Red Rooster 3 mins 7 mins St. Leonards Sister restaurant of Michelin-starred Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster 7 mins Yauatcha in Soho, Yauatcha City is an came to Shoreditch straight from the Chefs Jackson Boxer and Andrew all-day dim sum house serving a streets of Harlem. Pitched as soul Clarke of Brunswick House in wide selection of dim sum, wok dishes, food for the 21st century, Red Rooster Vauxhall moved to Shoreditch in cocktails and 40 types of tea. Part of Shoreditch celebrates the roots of June 2018 to deliver cutting edge the Hakkasan Group, Yauatcha City American cuisine, giving classic dishes southwest French cuisine, in a big has a beautiful gin and that a refined, contemporary twist. buzzy restaurant with high ceilings provides an oasis of calm amongst the redroosterldn.com and concrete floors. bustle of Liverpool Street. stleonards.london yauatcha.com/city

2016 / The Montcalm 2017 / KOBOX 2017 / Rathbones 2017 / The Ned 2017 / The Curtain Hotel with restaurant Aviary. Boutique boxing club. Investment managers move from Hotel with seven Hotel and members’ club. West End to Moorgate. restaurants. 14 15 ONE CROWN PLACE Not just the 2 Independent Images 1. The Royal Exchange shopping 2. The vibrant interior of 3. Street food restaurant at Spitalfields Market financial markets 4. Retail units at Boxpark 4 5. Street art meets trendy retail on Redchurch Street London has long been a city built on trade. Today, its ancient markets rub shoulders with new independents and fashionable 3 boutiques – the legacy lives on.

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Box park Leadenhall Market 11 mins 15 mins Constructed in 2011 out of Established in 1321 and featured repurposed shipping containers, as Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter Boxpark is the world’s first pop- films, this historic and architecturally up mall. It creatively fuses the striking market offers stalls, modern street food market with restaurants, shops and pubs all independent shopping, showcasing under the elegant Victorian roof. East London’s up-and-coming Spitalfields Market • Barbour fashion, cosmetics and food brands. 10 mins • Diptyque • The Brokedown Palace Straddling the City and Shoreditch, • Oliver Sweeney • Couco Eyewear this 350-year-old marketplace offers • Hymn • Hobbs handmade arts and crafts, antiques and vintage clothing alongside fashion 5 from up-and-coming designers. It is surrounded by restaurants catering 2017 to nearby City workers. • Rag and Bone • Lululemon Amazon • Cutler and Gross Fortnum and Mason Smythson Retail giants move into 15-storey • Kiehl’s Royal Exchange London’s iconic food store opens in Smythson represents over 130 years office building. 12 mins the Royal Exchange during November of British leather craftsmanship, Opened by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571, 2018 and will offer , preserves and specialising in luxury goods including Redchurch Street the Royal Exchange trading floor was hampers, alongside a bar and dining bags, wallets, diaries and books. Global internet retail 10 mins area within the courtyard. giants in need of Home to both Tracey Emin and used by merchants for 400 years. Now Leica no introduction. Sarah Lucas during the early a luxury shopping arcade, it offers an Grind Leica’s second London store, opened 1990s, Redchurch Street is still a array of boutiques and restaurants. An espresso bar by day and cocktail in 2015, offers personalised cameras, With space for 5,000 employees, great place to discover new artists bar by night, with a rich marble complimentary workshops and their Shoreditch headquarters and fashion labels set among interior and neoclassical six-metre- photography exhibitions. have given them a new home trendy cafés and beauty parlours. high arched windows. befitting of their ambition. • Monologue 1 Principal Place, EC2A 2BA • Labour and Wait 2017 / The Ivy City Garden 2017 / Psycle 6 mins 2017/ Temper City • Sunspel Cuisine: modern British. Stylish spinning classes. Cuisine: Indian.

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London has a real taste for Nobu. Their ocated on Willow Street, Another significant reason for us Whether it’s a quick drink, newest restaurant has settled comfortably Shoreditch, the hotel features deciding to open our first European an aperitif or something to L 150 rooms including 7 suites, hotel in Shoreditch, as I’m sure is the cap the night off with, there into Shoreditch life with an eclectic menu an 80-seat lobby lounge and a same for other businesses, is that are countless bars to choose and exclusive bar. 240–seat Nobu restaurant with Shoreditch is the heart of London’s from. Each whisks up colourful outdoor courtyard. All food and creative scene. This provides a really concoctions and offers stunning drinks menus have been curated exciting proposition to combine settings to intoxicate your by head chef and founder, Nobu Nobu’s signature east-meets- every sense. 1 Matsuhisa, specifically for the hotel. west philosophy with Shoreditch’s “When we opened our first restaurant creative and industrial energy. Aviary at Montcalm Royal in London 20 years ago, everyone Guests are surprised at how ‘zen’ London House Shoreditch is the thought we were crazy. They said our hotel is within the busy, industrial An elegant rooftop bar in Finsbury London had terrible food and no environment. When Robert de Niro Square, perfect for cocktail sipping heart of London’s one would be interested in eating at first came to Shoreditch, he actually while admiring the view. saw similarities with Tribeca, where we a great restaurant. When I went to Green Room at Curtain Hotel creative scene. opened our first restaurant together. London to explore the sushi culture Eye-catching interiors with a We were very enthusiastic about the You can find prior to opening, I discovered the mysterious ‘Director of Beverage’ growth in the area and excited to everything from only types of sushi offered were masterminding each cocktail. salmon, squid, shrimp and scallop. embrace a new community. Angler at South Place Hotel street food markets There was so much potential, so many When opening a hotel, the Modern British restaurant at the other varieties of sushi I could bring surrounding location is so important to Michelin-starred South Place Hotel with breath- to London. Now, London is one of the as guests’ decisions are based a lot taking 7th floor City views. restaurants, so it best cities in the world for food, which on what they can do in the immediate felt right for us to makes it a very different landscape to area. As Shoreditch has grown, not The Nickel Bar at The Ned move in. open a business in. only in its food scene, but in arts, All American feel betrays the London’s food scene is now so good creativity, retail etc., we knew it building’s origins as the Midland you can find a diverse range of would appeal to potential guests.” Bank. Drinks are full on flavour, cuisines all over the city, not just in yet refreshingly simple. Central. Shoreditch is an example of Rooftop at the Ace Hotel a neighbourhood that has grown up Surely the East End’s greatest a lot recently. You can find everything viewing platform where movers from street food markets to Michelin- brush shoulders with shakers starred restaurants here, so it felt and the small hours don’t mean right for us to move in. This area winding down. attracts a completely different, more The Boundary Rooftop and Grill local audience, which presented an Nobu Matsuhisa exciting new challenge. This also A vast glass pergola means it’s one Head Chef, Nobu Restaurant, of London’s only rooftop spots open helps us to build on Nobu’s brand Nobu Hotel presence and recognition as a whole. all year round – the perfect place for a bottle in front of the embers of a snapping fire. Jin Bo Law at the Dorsett City A 14th floor Aldgate spot means you can get up close to the Gherkin while sipping your East/West Cobbler. Make sure to book Image 2017 / Nobu Hotel Shoreditch in advance. 1. Head Chef, Nobu Matsuhisa Hotel and restaurant.

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1 The Ned

Set in the former Midland Bank This is no longer the case. building in the heart of the With the opening of The Ned City, The Ned was designed and many other new neighbours by Sir Edwin ‘Ned’ Lutyens in such as the Bloomberg Arcade 1924. The space includes nine restaurants, One Poultry and London’s centre of restaurants, 249 bedrooms now Fortnum & Mason in the gravity has undoubtedly channeling 1920s and 1930s Royal Arcade, the City is a design, a range of men’s and place to play as well as work. shifted eastward, with women’s grooming services and London’s centre of gravity has more reasons to visit ‘Ned’s Club’, a social and fitness undoubtedly shifted eastward, club where members have with more reasons to visit than ever. access to a rooftop pool, gym, than ever. spa, hammam and late night lounge bar. Historically, there Gareth Banner was a perception that the City Managing Director was underserviced when it came of The Ned to places to socialise.

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A lot of work requires a great deal of play. Images As day is chased away by nightfall, exclusive 1. The exterior of The Curtain members’ clubs come alive. 2. The Nickel Bar at The Ned The Curtain 2017 The Curtain – the first European New York team’s take on the The quality of bars, restaurants, venture from New York hotelier area. Michael Achenbaum, the boutiques, markets, cultural Michael Achenbaum – launched owner of both the Gansevoort events and the packed calendar in Shoreditch in May 2017. and The Curtain brands, picked of pop-ups is such a draw for The Bloomberg The doors to this hotly Shoreditch as it reminded him the area. We make sure to Arcade anticipated hotel and members’ of the Meatpacking district of provide an up-to-date list of our Modern dining and club opened alongside top Manhattan, where he opened his favourites in all hotel rooms. shopping destination. US chef Macus Samuelsson’s first hotel. Similarly, our Harlem- iconic Red Rooster restaurant. based Culinary Director, Marcus Sam Riches Samuelsson, chose to open A gastronomic Diagon Shoreditch is unlike anywhere Director of Sales and else in London – unrivalled in its the second ever branch of Red Alley hidden in the City’s Rooster here, inspired by the Marketing at The Curtain diversity, vibrancy and energy. Hotel, Shoreditch rabbit warren streets. This is where Londoners come cultural and culinary offer to play, lending it a truly unique of the area. Ten independent restaurants including: Ahi Poke, Homeslice, character and personality. It’s also been gratifying seeing Bleecker Burger & Caravan. I have to admit, I’m a bit biased our UK-based and global guests as I’m East London through exploring the area and getting Cannon St. Road, EC4N 8AR away from the over-visited West and through, so it has been 15 mins fascinating to see our End landmarks. 2017 / Smoking Goat 2017 / Nuala Cuisine: Bangkok canteens. Cuisine: Modern Irish.

20 21 ONE CROWN PLACE Boutique fitness 3 Another Space Free yourself from the queues and crowds. Keeping fit 11 mins Dynamic yoga, endorphin-charged needn’t come with added stress – find somewhere new cycle rides and fast and furious HIIT to break a sweat and shape up. classes has a new home just two minutes’ walk from Bank station. Tip: Possibly one of the nicest gym changing rooms in London. Blue Cow Yoga/Heartcore 1 12 mins anotherspace.london

Blue Cow Yoga offers a range of classes, from beginner to more 5 advanced. Its sister studio, Heartcore, is for those seeking a combination of Dynamic and Reformer Pilates and Barre. Barry’s Bootcamp 4 Tip: Fantastic yoga teachers. 3 mins bluecowyoga.com The original high-intensity workout. heartcore.co.uk Each class is different and can burn up to 1,000 calories. With a focus on a different muscle each day and Frame a uniquely addictive energy you are 9 mins guaranteed to see a transformation. A large selection of classes including Tip: For the 07:10 and 18:40 classes Psycle Ballet, 80’s Aerobics, Box Train and book 7 days before at 12:00. It is Reformer Pilates. 10 mins competitive to get a spot! A cycling-only hotspot offering 2 Tip: You can drop in, pay-as-you-go or, barrysbootcamp.com 45, 60 and 90-minute classes. for the more committed, get a great Tip Similar to Soul Cycle in the USA. value Frame membership. Book yourself Tip F45 Tip: Pre-order your smoothie moveyourframe.com an express blow dry The 30-minute express 12 mins from The Energy Kitchen before or men’s cut class at 1:15pm, is perfect class to jump the post class rush. 1 Rebel Famous global workout for a lunch time 3 mins offering a 45-minute high- power-hour psyclelondon.com intensity, circuit training class. KOBOX The Broadgate arm of this pay-as- 3 mins you-train gym boutique has two Tip: Take the 8-week challenge types of class: ‘Re-shape’, designed to for maximum results. Fight club with the atmosphere of a night club. condition and re-sculpt, and ‘Rumble’, f45training.co.uk/LiverpoolStreet which has a cardio boxing focus with Tip: The 30-minute express class a brutal, battle-hardening vibe. at 13:15 is perfect for a lunch time Tip: If you’re at the St. Mary Axe power-hour. Images studio, book yourself an express koboxlondon.com 1. Fitness studio at Blue Cow Yoga blow dry or men’s cut. 2. A Rumble boxing class 3. Some of the team at Barry’s Bootcamp 1rebel.co.uk 4. Group boxing class at KOBOX 5. Chic workout space at Pscyle

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Meet our residents Danny Lucas In my 35 years in construction working on some of London’s most amazing projects, I have to be pretty strong 1 What else are you excited about? 2 when it comes to stopping my emotions B&B Italia is my favourite interior making me too attached to what I’m designer brand, so I am excited that working on. they’ve designed the wardrobes and The location was kitchen in my new apartment. Also, One Crown Place was different. the apartment I chose is triple aspect As my company neared the completion key. I spend most and on the eighth floor (lucky number of the marketing suite fit out, working eight!) so I can’t wait to see the views of my time here with CBRE and their interior design of the city. as there are many architects, Bowler James Brindley in design studios You seem to already know the area readiness for the official launch in April very well. 2017, I found myself overpowered by a and showrooms Every night after class at the London feeling I’d never felt before. The whole based in Aldgate, College of Fashion in Old Street, design and feel of this development and we would head down to Shoreditch. its unique location, that brings together Liverpool Street Typically, we’d make our way to Pho a fusion of all the things I love about and Shoreditch. or On the Bab, or just walk around the this part of London, made it impossible showrooms to have a look. One of my for me to walk away. I just knew that I favourites is JW Anderson’s workshop had to have a part of something special that will never be repeated in London in Shoreditch. Jonathan also went to Images the London College of Fashion but I 1. Yifan Gao ever again. don’t know him – yet! 2. Yifan’s work on display at London Fashion Week

2018 Paul Bartlett Yifan Why One Crown Place? So there are all sorts of designers in My family and I have been living in Gao The location was key. I spend most Shoreditch, not just fashion? People’s Republic Switzerland for the last eight years and we recently relocated back to London. Yifan Gao is a jewellery designer. She has just of my time around the area as Absolutely. In fact, there are a lots of of China Embassy there are many design studios furniture showrooms here too, which Switzerland was great, but we missed started an MA at the Royal College of Art, 5.4 acre Royal Court becomes and showrooms based in Aldgate, will be great for my family as they’re the energy of London and the lifestyle studying ceramics and glass, after finishing their new UK embassy. Liverpool Street and Shoreditch. Not furniture designers based in Shanghai. opportunities it provides. her BA in Fashion Jewellery at the London only is it great inspiration for me to When I live in One Crown Place they We wanted to live centrally and chose College of Fashion this year. Yifan’s project be based here, it will also be helpful will come and stay in the attached Once home of the Royal the City because it has a great buzz “Sick”, in collaboration with fashion designer for my career to be so close to the hotel and I’ll be able to take them Mint, the Hill site while not being too hectic. We are Yawen Qian, was exhibited at London other designers as there is a lot of to see the latest furniture designs begins a new life. renting in Wapping while we wait for Fashion Week. Her work has also been collaboration in my projects. coming out of London. OCP to complete and we love the fact showcased at Paris Fashion week. Relocating from their current Such as? Your family already plan to stay in there are so many places to go out home in Marylebone, the nearby. In the past the City emptied Tim Walker Photography. He has a the Bespoke hotel at OCP? prestigious embassy moved studio in Shoreditch and used my Yes, and I plan to use the club lounge out over the weekend, but now, due to this historic site with to the numerous bars and restaurants, jewellery pieces in his own project. for business meetings. I love the unparalleled access to the City. look of the gym, with all the leather there are always people around without textures and quality finishes, but I’m Court, EC3N 4QN feeling crowded. We have a young not much of a gym goer. Maybe that daughter and so we also really enjoy will change! 25 mins the parks and green spaces around 2018 / St. Leonards the City. Cuisine: Southwest France.

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Alumni Tony Blair, Education Mahatma Gandhi 3 Stuart Wong Izzy Yurtsever UCL Student Student at Central St. Martins

Across the world London is synonymous with education, As a student of real estate, there’s During my first year of studying no better area in London to in London I lived in Shoreditch and with hugely respected institutions of learning appreciate the seamless blend of and had a great year. Being friends scattered all over the city, it’s easy to see why. modern and historic architecture. with people that lived all over The City of London represents London, having a regular place one of the busiest financial hubs to meet up for drinks was great 7th in the world, while still reflecting and Shoreditch never best university its rich history and heritage. disappointed. Our local was UCL University College London 1 2 ’s third oldest university in the UK Much of this can be seen at the The George and Vulture but and ranked 16th best university in viewpoints at the Sky Garden, Cargo/ The Book Club/ Kamio the world (THE World University at the Walkie Talkie and the bars were also favourites. Rankings 2018). on top of 110 Bishopsgate and Gower Street, WC1E 6BT , or simply by walking As a student at an art school the many alleyways and passages the City was very useful Imperial College London throughout the City. for my course. We had tours Ranked eighth best university in of the City of London to help the world (THE World University Within a short walk away are two our contextual studies, the Rankings 2018). of my favourite areas in London, Barbican is easy to access and Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, with Shoreditch is a great place for some of the best restaurants in holding exhibitions in interesting King’s College London Images City University University of London the country. My absolute favourite places and seeing a wide range Ranked seventh best university 1. University College London (UCL) Alumni include: Tony Blair, former is the hearty Italian food at Luca, of exhibitions too – there was 2. King’s College London library 2018 Labour Prime Minister, and Mahatma which serves up some of the best something on every week. in the UK (THE World University 3. City University Rankings 2018). Gandhi, leader of the Indian pasta, lamb chops and tiramisu Alumni include: Thomas Hardy, independence movement. in town. The Britannia Leisure centre London Business School Reverend Desmond, Tutu and Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB behind Shoreditch Park has a Ranked first in the FT’s Top Fortnum Virginia Woolf. There’s also a variety of shops gym, pool and climbing wall. It’s European Business School & Mason around the area. Goodhood, great and affordable for students Strand, WC2R 2LS UAL University of Arts London for four consecutive years. Heritage retailer open store Over half of all Turner Prize winners which offers an amazing collection too. That said, we spent most of Regents Park, NW1 4SA in Royal Exchange. the summer having barbecues in LSE London School of Economics of homeware goods, streetwear since 1984 have been University of and Political Science and footwear, is pretty much Shoreditch Park instead Queen Mary University of London Arts London alumni or staff. Alumni include 34 past or present Alumni include: Charles Saatchi tailor-made for millennials. Down of visiting the gym. prime ministers, presidents or Ranked 14th in the UK in the THE A brand as quintessentially the road, you’ll find the edgy World University Rankings 2018. and Alexander McQueen. premiers and 16 LSE staff or alumni British as they come. 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, NikeLab and other brands such have been awarded a Nobel Prize. 8 Nobel Prize winning staff and alumni. as APC, Folk, Le Labo, Aesop, From supplying the first British N1C 4AA Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE Mile End Road, E1 4NS and Club Monaco. Everest expedition to their

Courtauld Institute of Art famous rooftop bee colonies, Cass Business School SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies Finally, spend the evening at the Fortnum & Mason is woven Ranked second in London, 4th in SOAS has the largest concentration So many alumni went on to become eclectic Electric Cinema, where into the fabric of London’s the UK and 15th in Europe (Financial of specialist staff (300+ academics) directors of art museums that they you can do everything from history. Expansion into the Times European Business School concerned with the study of Africa, become known as Courtauld Mafia. getting a haircut to catching the Royal Exchange means a new ranking 2017). Asia and the Middle East at any Alumni include directors of the: latest film to winding down with foothold in the City for this 106 Bunhill Row, EC1Y 8TZ University in the world. Ranked fourth National Gallery Metropolitan a coffee or drink. iconic store. globally in Development Studies Museum of Art, NY; National Portrait Gallery; and British Museum (QS World University Rankings 2018). The Royal Exchange, EC3V 3LL Somerset House. Russell Square, WC1H 0XG Strand, WC2R 0RN 12 mins 2019 / Everyman Cinema Boutique cinema.

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61% Simon Conie The creative City of professionals are under 39. Senior Director, Investor Office Leasing, CBRE

How has the City changed?

Not even five years ago you’d have 1 to facilitate collaboration and creativity. 70% Twentytwo, located at 22 Bishopsgate They have found that non-traditional of WeWork members been hard pushed to find any jeans Designed to nurture 12,000 people flexible workspace layouts encourage go on to collaborate and trainers (that didn’t belong to within a mix of small and large rapid project concept development with other members a tourist) wandering the streets, or businesses, as well as start-ups, and creativity. on future projects. a Black Sheep barista serving the Twentytwo has been designed to put morning commuters. the wellness of workers at the forefront Emerging businesses such as fintech and of the workspace. A large proportion of app developers operate globally and could Nowadays, we see far more diversity its floorplate is dedicated to communal work anywhere, but are choosing to base among the working population, the spaces and facilities including: themselves in the City to take advantage 41% places they work and the retailers increase in businesses of the cross-pollination of ideas which who serve them. The influx of artisan/ — A fresh food market, innovation in the City of London thrives within the dense network of independent retailers on our streets hub, gym, wellbeing retreat and spa, in the six years to 2016 expertise, ideas, markets and established and food markets in the squares are business club and cycle hub. including 1,200 start- related firms that the area provides. testament to the thriving and evolving ups per year. — London’s highest free public viewing London food scene and the demand gallery in an ‘art walk’ within the Despite its 2000-year history the City now for a smashed avocado on toast building’s triple-height lobby. embraces modernity, ensuring it remains rather than a Pret baguette. — The City’s first ever ‘climbing window’ at the forefront of change by looking to inside the 62-storey skyscraper, the future and creating spaces people Driving this demand for better choice 125m above the ground. want. Developers appreciate that the Moving and quality has been the millennial City’s international and domestic allure to the city generation. This change has come wholly depends on its ability to continue hand-in-hand with traditional City — Amazon moved With competition for talent fiercer than ever to evolve, while remaining true to its powerhouses of the banking, finance, their UK HQ to businesses are looking for innovative ways heritage and tradition. In Broadgate Circle, legal and professional sectors now Principal Place, to attract and retain the best talent. carefully selected retailers bring vitality competing with the likes of Monzo positioned between and authenticity, foregoing the higher Bank, WeWork, Amazon and Deliveroo, the Square Mile The City draws on a highly skilled international rents paid by chains in order to champion for whom the mantra ‘dress for and Tech City. workforce across a range of knowledge- independents and boutiques. purpose’ means exactly that. Today, intensive sectors. — The Chinese it’s out with the suit and tie and in with There are now 400,000 square metres Embassy is whatever you feel comfortable in. Businesses are now viewing the office not as of shared workspace in the City, which is relocating to simply space to work in, but an extension of hugely beneficial to companies looking Royal Mint Court. their brands. As a result, the work space is to forge new, successful partnerships. — Rathbones, a bread becoming humanised, increasingly designed Within WeWork alone, 70% of members and butter Mayfair report going on to collaborate with other tenant, taking members on future projects. space in the City. 400,000 — Start-up bank square metres Monzo moved to of shared workspace Finsbury Square in the City in 2018.

Image 1. The dramatic climbing wall at Twentytwo, located at 22 Bishopsgate

2019 / Bob Bob Cité 2019 / Elizabeth Line 2019 / Twentytwo Cuisine: Russian. High-speed tube line launch. Flexible offices open in Bishopsgate.

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Preserving history It was important to the One Crown Dance also conceived the idea of the Images Place team that the terraces on Sun ‘oval amphitheatre’, which materialised 1. Computer generated image of the bar in the private members’ club Street (originally Crown Street) were as Finsbury Square. This was to have 2 � 3.  Computer generated image of conserved. They are some of the houses with matching façades of stock the hotel exterior only remaining examples of designs brick and balconettes of delicate by George Dance the Younger, a ironwork at the first-floor windows. remarkable, but under-appreciated architect, many of whom’s buildings By the 1790s almost every street was have been destroyed. fringed with houses, with shops at ground floor level, as was the case Dance introduced crescents on Sun Street. (semicircular rows of houses) and circuses (buildings encircling a central communal area) to London.

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Forming part of the One Crown One Crown Place is a truly unique 2 Place development, Bespoke Hotels destination, set in the heart of an area has been appointed to operate of London that has evolved constantly 41 bedrooms within the conserved over the preceding two decades. terraced houses on Sun Street. With The opportunity to develop a ambitions to join a select group of hotel with such an original identity, five-star hotels in the City, the hotel located in the midst of this iconic will combine a 100-cover destination restaurant and bar alongside a private neighbourhood, was a tremendously members’ club. attractive one for Bespoke Hotels. Maintaining the Georgian foundations that give Sun Street such charm, while bringing an outstanding destination restaurant and members’ club to the City of London, will herald Haydn Fentum an exciting of the historic, Founder and CEO of Bespoke Hotels creative, and contemporary.”

2020 / Borough Yards 2020 / Eataly 115,600 sq ft of retail and leisure space. Cuisine: Italian marketplace.

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Tottenham Farringdon Elizabeth Court Road Home to Smithfield’s meat market and a plethora of well-regarded restaurants including St. John, The gateway to Fitzrovia, Luca and Club Gascon, Farringdon is also within Bloomsbury and Covent minutes of cultural hotspots such as the Barbican Garden; Tottenham Court Road Line and the newly relocated . is just ten minutes’ walk from Universities UCL and SOAS New openings include: Travel times across and situated at one end of the • Fare Bar and Canteen world-famous Oxford Street. London are being halved. • Flipside New openings include: • Quality Chop House • Red Farm • Din Tai Fung • Petersham Nurseries • Shop at BlueBird • Olivia Burton Watches Heathrow Airport Paddington Bond Street Liverpool Stratford 33 mins 10 mins 7 mins Street 8 mins

Tottenham Farringdon Court Road 2 mins 4 mins Heathrow Airport 6 mins Bond Street The UK’s premier airport will be just 33 minutes’ travel from Liverpool Famous for its designer shops and five-star Street Station, making trips overseas hotels, Bond Street and the surrounding even easier, and getting back home Mayfair area boast over 25 Michelin star Canary Wharf after a long flight smoother than restaurants, exceptional shopping and some ever before. of London’s best art galleries. New openings include: By day, Canary Wharf is one of London’s major financial districts, • Mercato Mayfair synonymous with glass skyscrapers and well-heeled workers. As night comes, a more vibrant side to the area’s character is revealed, offering • Market Hall West End street food along with some of the best restaurants in London. • Matches Fashion New openings include: • Stella McCartney flagship store • The Ivy in the Park • Giant Robot • Wharf Kitchen • Barry’s Bootcamp

2020 / Pan Pacific Luxury hotel group opens first London destination. 32 33 ONE CROWN PLACE Meet the neighbours

With all the work and play it’s easy to forget that the City is also a place to live. It’s home for a privileged population of unique individuals.

James Beckham 2021 living was popular. The infrastructure What do you most enjoy about Note: Change graphic in terms of restaurants around living in the City? Resident of the Barbican Clerkenwell and Shoreditch has What I like so much is the way the

changed radically since then. built environment keeps changing. One Crown Place How does it feel to be one of Urban regeneration is going on Striking mixed-use development 10,000 people that live in the And how do you find it now? around you all the time. For example, 3 minutes’ walk from Liverpool City of London? Brilliant. For example, on Friday night the Museum of London is moving Street station where the City I never underestimate the privilege of we went to Clerkenwell through to Smithfield. I look out of my work meets Shoreditch. living where we do. Being a property St. Johns Lane to Sushi Tetsu in window near St. Paul’s, at the tower person, I always want to move to Jerusalem Passage. of a church that got bombed in the where I’m visiting on holiday, but I One Crown Place will bring war next to the new building for really can’t understand how I could It’s run by a Japanese couple and an exciting new addition Bank of America Merrill Lynch, have a more rounded life than the has seven seats. It’s Tokyo quality to London’s celebrated Sushi fifteen minutes’ walk from our then around the corner is the old one the Barbican provides. skyline. front door. Then, on Saturday, we General Post Office next to the Why did you move to the Barbican? walked 30 minutes to the Menier St. Barts hospital buildings which Designed by award-winning My wife was an investment banker Chocolate factory to see a play and are being redeveloped. architects KPF, this terracotta- who worked with Asia so had to be at on Sunday afternoon we walked to Do you ever regret the loss clad building has taken her desk at 07:15 and we both wanted the Tate Modern. of any buildings? inspiration from the local area to be able to walk to work. I can walk No, I’m not sentimental about any and offers an antidote to the to work in 10 minutes. It gives totally What does London offer that buildings. Every change is new, it’s surrounding concrete and flexibility, eases the traffic risk and nowhere else does? interesting and exciting. Having said glass towers. takes the stress out of any gaps that The juxtaposition between the new that, this morning at 07.05 walking occur. It’s a 15 minute cab home from and the old. You have London as Here we will welcome a diverse along on St. Martin’s Le Grand, the the West End so there’s no worrying a leading financial global centre, a group of people to our offices, morning sun was catching the dome about which train you need to catch. thriving business hub, and it’s woven hotel, members’ club and on top of St. Paul’s Cathedral and it Arguably, it works too well! I will be into a historical fabric which is always residences, all within sight was just stunning. I almost stopped very dissatisfied if I move elsewhere. changing. That’s why tourists come to of the City’s iconic skyline. someone in the street to say, look We moved in 1985, before inner city London, for the historic character. at that, isn’t it extraordinary. It’s 54 Wilson Street, EC2A 2ER inspirational just walking to work. 2022 / Museum of London £70m regeneration and relocation to Smithfield. 34 35 Reflecting the old-meets-new character of the City and Hackney, One Crown Place comprises existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500 sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level. The boutique hotel and members’ club occupy the elegant row of Georgian terraces on Sun Street.

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