THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST

In the Grimshaw Podcast Cities series we have interviewed city-shapers of all kind: architects and urban designers, transport specialists, cultural entrepreneurs, developers, and city leaders. Our series ends the year with that cornerstone of urban development – masterplanning. And who better to discuss this with than Selina Mason? Selina is a masterplanner and architect with extensive experience of delivering complex urban masterplans. She is responsible for driving high quality design and masterplanning across the UK and Europe in the urban regeneration portfolio of major international developer Lendlease, amounting to £30bn end value.

Selina is a recognised leader in urban spatial planning and design leadership. She is a UK Design Council Ambassador and has recently been appointed by the Government to the Urban Centre Recovery Task Force. She is the Chair of the Quality Review Panel of Havering Council, a fast growing part of the Thames Gateway on the east side of London, and is a member of several other Design Review panels. She also represents the Royal Institute of British Architects on the Highways England’s Strategic Design Panel where she champions investment in better quality infrastructure.

Before joining Lendlease in 2017, Selina led a range of city-shaping regeneration masterplans including the new UCL campus at Stratford, a prime legacy of the 2012 Olympics in the area. Until 2014 she was indeed responsible for the delivery of the London 2012 Masterplan and the design and delivery of the post-Games Transformation Masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority and subsequently the London Legacy Development Corporation. And before all this, she was Director of Architecture and Design Review at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) until 2007: CABE’s work and approach has been hugely influential internationally. Selina is currently leading on one of the most important urban regeneration projects in Europe, the 50-50 joint venture with London’s oldest housing charity Peabody to deliver more than 11,000 homes in Thamesmead in south-east London.

With this last podcast of 2021, we encourage you to join us in 2022 for the next podcast series: The Culture Series. We look forward to a new year of remarkable and sometimes provocative conversations with those shaping the culture, both high and low, of our cities across the globe.

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Our guest this time is Dan Labbad CEO of the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate’s unique portfolio includes major property interests in London - such as Regent Street - and a broad range of urban and rural assets across the UK such as Windsor Great Park and a number of regional shopping centres. It also manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland and plays a major role in the UK’s world leading offshore wind sector. Established by an Act of Parliament, it has generated £3bn in profits to HM Treasury over the last ten years.

Prior to The Crown Estate, Dan held a number of senior positions at the global property and infrastructure group Lendlease, including Group Chief Operating Officer and the dual roles of Chief Executive Officer, International Operations and Chief Executive Officer, Europe to oversee the disciplined expansion of Lendlease’s businesses in Europe, Americas and Asia.

Dan has actively championed sustainability throughout his professional life, having previously served as a director of the Green Building Council of Australia and more recently as Chairman of the UK Green Building Council.

In addition to his role at The Crown Estate, Dan is currently a Trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a Trustee of Ark Schools and a Director of The Hornery Institute.

Dan is passionate about two themes which have run through all his work and come out really strongly in the Podcast: sustainability and social inclusion: The Progressive City.

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The 10th episode in the Culture and the City series of the Grimshaw podcast finds Tim Williams, Practice Lead of our Cities Group in conversation with Kate Meyrick, a director with major planning consultancy Urbis.

Kate is the former CEO of the Hornery Institute, and a passionate urbanist and place maker with more than 25 years of international experience across Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. She is a respected expert in visioning and positioning city scale precincts, working sensitively with stakeholders and the community to co-create powerful new futures for well-loved places.

The podcast reviews international examples of cultural precincts and Transit Oriented Developments as well as the exciting prospects for Brisbane arising from the city being the location for the 2032 Olympics.

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