10 Downing Street has been the residence of British Prime Ministers since 1735. Behind its famous black door the most important decisions affecting Britain for nearly 300 years have been taken.

William Kent, 1735

The home of Eric and Jessica Huntley , community activists and educators who founded the pioneering company Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in 1968, lived and ran their bookshop from this semi detached property soon after. The house is a Black British cultural archivists dream; filled with books, arts and craft and correspondence from the 1960s to the present day.

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Tour of home & garden designed in 2018 by Nagan Johnson Architects

Nagan Johnson Architects, 2018

Full refurbishment and extension of a Victorian terraced house in Walthamstow Village. The project reconfigures a previously compromised layout to create a brighter, more coherent home, improving its relationship to the street and garden. A careful material palette and environmental upgrades enhance both spatial quality and long-term performance.

Pablo Sanchez Lopez, 2025

A House for Artists (AHFA) is an experiment in communal living and working, that seeks to embed artists very directly into the local community in a meaningful way. The model combines 12 rented flats, occupied by artists and their families/flatmates, with a ground floor community/work space. Each artist in the house volunteers their time to shape different strands of a growing public programme.

Apparata, 2020

Join us to explore the architectural history and future of the City of London's iconic glasshouse. Hear from the team behind Barbican Renewal, who will be restoring and revitalising the Conservatory from 2027-2030 with improvements to accessibility, sustainability and a new plant collection. Take part in a plant adoption event, leaving with a cutting from the Conservatory to grow at home.

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, 1982

First ever purpose-built broadcast centre in UK, and a jewel of Art Deco design with original artworks by sculptor Eric Gill. Remodelled and extended in 2006/2013 by architects MacCormac Jamieson and Prichard/Sheppard Robson.

G Val Myer, 1932

An enduring, distinctive feature of the London skyline for the last 54 years, this is a rare opportunity for members of the public to visit the famous revolving floor, 158m above the capital. After the flight the guests can watch a history of the BT Tower film in our auditorium.

Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats, 1965

Hidden behind two Listed Building facades opposite Smithfield Market, and spread across eight floors below and above ground, E.ON's Citigen energy centre produces electricity, heat and cooling to buildings across the Square Mile.

Glenkerry House is a 14-storey tower block designed by Hungarian architect Ernő Goldfinger. The block is managed by its residents, who collectively form the Glenkerry Co-operative Housing Association.

Erno Goldfinger, 1975

Herne Hill Velodrome, opened in 1891, hosted track cycling events for the 1948 Olympics, is now home to a thriving grassroots cycling facility - hosting everything from Learn to Cycle to local and international racing events. HHV overcame the threat of closure in the early 2000s, and a new pavilion, designed by Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects, opened in 2017.

Hopkins Architects, 2017

Iconic Victorian covered market, with roots in Roman Londinium. Today, more than 40 renowned retail brands and outstanding food and drink venues are set within the stunning market place.

Sir Horace Jones, 1881

Lloyd’s may be the global market for specialist insurance and reinsurance, but it is also a London icon. Over the last three centuries, Lloyd’s has called home to just eight buildings – the most recent of which can be found on Lime Street, in the heart of the City. Designed by renowned British architect Lord Richard Rogers and opened by Her Majesty The Queen in 1986, the Lloyd’s building is a radical addition to the skyline, and a pioneering example of high-tech architecture.

Richard Rogers Partnership, 1986

A masterpiece of Edwardian neo-baroque architecture opposite Westminster Abbey. Second largest self-supporting ferro-concrete dome in world. Its Great Hall was the venue for the Inaugural General Assembly of the United Nations in 1946.

Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Edwin Alfred Rickards , 1909

This year, we are celebrating the centenary of the Morden Extension, designed by Charles Holden. The seven stations of this extension on the Northern line represent both an engineering and an architectural achievement for London Underground. This tour will take participants through the stations, describing their architectural details and what it takes to operate them today.

Charles Holden, 1926

Housed in the Old Vic Theatre’s grade II former annex (built 1958) in the Brutalist style, the Studio exists to develop new work for the National Theatre. The Studio is also home to the National Theatre Archive. Tours will include the rehearsal spaces, writers’ rooms and script library alongside the Archive strongroom where the National Theatre’s collections are housed.

Lyons Israel Ellis Partnership, 1958

Explore a unique immersive theatre space in Wembley.

For one day only, the charity Refugees at Home is holding a special photography exhibition at their home, International House. 'Home Between Homes: The Faces behind Hosting' showcases the stories of ordinary people who have opened their own homes to refugees.

Resonance FM is a pioneering, non-profit community radio station, with a studio at 7 Risborough Street, Southwark, London. Broadcasting 24/7 on 104.4 FM, DAB, and online, it offers over 100 weekly shows created by volunteer engineers and programme-makers. The station champions free expression and artistic diversity, providing a platform for local and international voices across arts & culture.

James Pooley Architecture, 2025

Built as a private house for his parents, the project encapsulates Rogers' vision of a home built using industrially manufactured components. As such it was seen as a prototype for mass affordable housing. Opening for the Festival in association with The Wimbledon Society

Richard and Su Rogers, 1968

Six Columns was selected as the RIBA 2024 House of the Year. The house was designed by the architect owner for their family within their existing neighbourhood, a leafy street in South London. The house is discrete and considerate of the setting, but not meek in character or detail. From a distance it sits comfortably alongside its neighbours, as you approach and enter its character is revealed.

31/44 Architects, 2024

A unique new build residence with an impressive triple-height living space under a roof with a fully exposed steel and timber structure and an inbuilt design with a potential to be easily split into two separate houses in the future

Lacey and Saltykov, 2024

21 houses, in 4 terraces, built by Swiss architects Atelier 5 for Wates within the wider Park Hill Estate, Croydon. Living areas on the upper floor are approached through a garden court. Bedrooms downstairs open onto a lower garden. The houses are accessed via walkways and sit within mature communal gardens providing private and open living. Pevsner wrote, 'a group with few equals in Britain'.

Atelier 5, 1970

Scale Rule brings young people together with architects and structural engineers to design and build their ideal school space, with a focus on interacting with our natural environment. Pick a prompt card - a library in a treehouse, a canteen on the canal, a rooftop forest playground - then sketch it and build it in straws and paperclips alongside practicing professionals.

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, 1890

As part of the Open House Festival, Streatham Hill Theatre stands out as a significant example of London’s theatrical heritage. Built in 1928–29, it was the final theatre designed by renowned architect W. G. R. Sprague. Opening in 1929, the venue hosted theatre, opera, ballet and variety performances until 1962, with a temporary closure between 1944 and 1950 due to wartime bomb damage.

W. G. R. Sprague, 1928

Established 1984, Strongroom has produced some of the biggest records in British music and remains the largest independent recording studio in East London. Featuring unique visual design by legendary artist Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), these spaces are unlike any other. Reid's work draws from druidic culture and sacred geometry to convey vital messages of hope, environmentalism and anti-fascism.

Guided tours exploring The Lansbury Estate and it's role in the Festival of Britain, 1951. Discover why 86,000 people travelled on special busses to Poplar to marvel at this new neighbourhood, designed to be a blueprint for Britain's post-war recovery. 45-minute-long walking tours led by knowledgeable local guides.

Frederick Gibberd, 1950

The London Archives' older building was built in the late 1930s for the Temple Press and has many original features. Purpose built extension in early 1990s for archival storage. Public rooms remodelled by Bisset Adams in 2000s.

F. W. Troup and H. R. Steele, 1939

Tucked away on Ashwin Street, this 1870 Victorian factory for Reeves & Sons paint survived the Blitz. Decades later, after housing railway engineers and hosting 1980s reggae sound systems, Bootstrap Charity saved it from developers. Now called The Print House, this cornerstone of the Dalston Cultural Quarter boasts a unique World War II bunker space alongside its studios and iconic Roof Park.

Edwin Henry Horne, 1870

Open House of 13 Nubia Way and oral history exhibition of Europe's largest black-led community self-build for rent initiative including archive material and new video. https://sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemory/tomorrow-is-built-today/

Architype, 1997

The largest purpose-built contemporary dance centre in the world. A gently curving facade with richly coloured plastic-cladding leads into spaces filled with vivid colour and dynamic form.

Herzog & de Meuron, 2003

rare opportunity to see inside Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, built in 1890 and London's last hydraulic power station to be decommissioned. The site has been closed for the last ten years, but is now entering a new era under the custodianship of Glass Castle Foundation, which has begun restoration ahead of plans to breathe new life into the building as a centre for experimental arts.

Thomas Hawksley, 1890

West Ham pumping station was built to raise West Ham sewage to the level of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Northern Outfall sewer (1864) along which it could then flow under gravity to Beckton works for treatment. Contains two unique Lilleshall beam steam engines. Also once a power station to power the Westham Corpration Tramways

Not known, 1897

Join us at Brooklands Primary School to discover more about the story of William Mitchell’s mural (1958), designed as part of the London County Council’s pioneering Design Consultant Scheme

This is a unique chance to see behind the scenes of the Zaha Hadid Foundation archive. The founding collection comprises of works across a range of media, including architectural models, furniture, interior design, paintings, drawings, architectural plans and blueprints, fashion design, and jewellery.