Join bestselling author, guide and Open City Golden Key Academy alumnus, Jack Chesher, for an intimate walking tour exploring Aldwych to Bank

William Waldorf Astor, 1895

Seed is a library and cultural space celebrating African and Caribbean heritage through art, design, and material culture. The collection connects diaspora communities with their histories through free access to books and traditional objects within an intentionally curated home environment. More than an archive, it's a space for cultural reconnection, learning, and community dialogue.

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Rabbits Road Press is a colourful and welcoming community-focussed Risograph studio in Manor Park providing affordable print education and an alternative art space for all. Based in Old Manor Park Library, a beautiful grade II listed Carnegie library, visitors are welcome to tour the Risograph studio and take part in a recycled Riso activity.

Andrew Carnegie, 1904

Printmaking workshop featuring artists working with traditional printmaking techniques - etching, wood cut, Lino cut and mono print.

Do not know, 1876

Experience a room-sized Camera Obscura within a terraced house located on Beck Road in East London. You will have the opportunity to have your portrait taken and purchase a photographic archival print. Groups or couples welcome!

Unknown, 1890

Nested within a a Victorian context, this new-build house is a green oasis and a calm retreat which maximises sun exposure and connection with nature, while being entirely contextual to the site. Architect Mark Shaw, founding director of Studioshaw, embarked on building his own home after a chance discovery of a disused MOT garage in Walthamstow, East London.

studioshaw, 2023

A studio and workshop set back into the garden to provide additional space for a young family. Built using the U-Build modular construction system, the furniture and internal walls can be dismantled and repositioned to adapt to the changing needs of the family over time. Alongside the garden studio, the low impact extension, 'Supper Time' by nimtim architects can also be seen at the house.

U-Build, 2025

Ever wondered what the Greenford Quay development looks like from inside? Take a tour with us across our three buildings, see views across Greenford that will be not have been seen by many local people and discover more about our green initiatives and design.

HTA Design, 2019

Collectarium and Peter Maloney build on their Lockdown Space Collection which invited people to post images and films online that shared how they had adapted, re-imagined, transformed and expanded their home environment during lockdown. This exhibition spatially reframes and recontextualises the collection to critically reconsider the ideal home in our increasingly unsettled times.

Practice Architecture, 2011

Join storyteller and author Bernadette Russell as she tells the tales of the amazing Gigglemugs, and the day that they uncovered the incredible and surprising secrets of Croydon Town Hall. Plus: find out how to become a modern-day member of The Gigglemugs yourself! This tour is designed for children aged 5-8 years old (siblings and grown ups welcome).

Charles Henman, 1896

Join Clayground Collective in Queen’s Gardens for a hands-on clay experience as part of Open House weekend. Shape your own version of Croydon - past, present or imagined - using raw clay. Recreate iconic landmarks like No.1 Croydon ("The 50p Building"), Croydon Clocktower, Fairfield Halls or even the Whitgift Almshouses, or invent a future skyline from your imagination.

Tours of the new Sadler's Wells theatre on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - Sadler's Wells East.

O'Donnell + Tuomey, 2025

Come and look behind the scenes at our London Film School studios on Parker Street. Based above the Garden Cinema, a stone's throw from Covent Garden, the building has recently been refurbished to bespoke studios, edit suites and classrooms for the world-renowned British film school.

Chris Ager and Chris Thorne, 1930

Now used as the atelier and showroom for the bespoke women's tailoring house Isabel Glanville, this arch is a Grade II listed building constructed in 1898 in the Gothic Revival style. It presents a rare remnant of a pointed-arch arcade which was originally used as trade stores and built by the Midland Railway Company.

John Underwood - Engineer to the Midland Railway Company, 1898

Explore the heritage behind Ashburton Park and the local area

A box of building bricks or connecting rods has given pleasure to generations of children, and tested the ingenuity of designers and makers. See an exhibition of your own childhood favourites, together with historical rarities- and try some of them of them out. Hear a talk given by architectural historian and chairman of Pollocks Toy Museum Trust Dr. Alan Powers .

Bartholomew's Fayre is a community festival taking place within the Smithfield Rotunda Garden, Great St Barts and the surrounding areas.

Join us for Bartholomew Fayre: Power to the People, a FREE bold and brilliant grassroots community festival, celebrating creativity, history, activism and togetherness. Across two-jam packed days, we’ll be taking over Smithfield with an exciting mix of hands-on art, thought-provoking talks, walking tours and live performances inspired by the anarchic joyousness of the original Bartholomew Fair.

A walk through this leafy corner of Islington that explores its rich history and varied communities, from dissenting academies to missionary training schools, radical drinking clubs to synagogues – and asks why some historical sites are commemorated and remembered, and others are neglected and forgotten.

What does an office have in common with hotels, residential clubhouses, F&B spaces, and retail? We invite you to an open studio at Conran and Partners to examine how design increasingly blurs traditional sector boundaries. Experience a journey through spaces that shift from public to private, reflecting how the modern workplace has evolved into a lifestyle choice.

Hale Wharf occupies a sliver of land where the urban intensity of Tottenham Hale meets the reservoirs and rivers of the Lee Valley, designated green belt and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. 505 new homes of a mix of size and tenure occupy a range of building typologies that make the most of this unique location. A guided tour will take you through the story of this new neighbourhood.

Allies and Morrison, 2024

Explore The Museum of Transology’s archive of objects donated by trans, intersex and non-binary people to uncover the timely relationships to space, amenities and privacy these artefacts show. This workshop and exploration of the archive will be run by Scar Barclay, the exhibition designer of TRANCESTRY: 10 Years of the Museum of Transology, and will consider trans spatial equity and spatiality.

Charles Harrison Townsend, 1891

A substantial rear extension connecting the two existing patios was added to the existing fabric of this stunning neoclassical Grade II villas dating 1821

Mark Zudini, 2023

"When trying to find Internet infrastructure in a city, it's helpful to start from the ground up – or, more precisely, somewhere just below the ground up..." - Ingrid Burrington, artist (2016) This tour will walk you through the ubiquitous but often invisible infrastructure that enables connectivity in London, with a focus specifically on the City of London.

James Henry Greathead, 1870