HTA reimagined and repurposed a Victorian warehouse in Hackney Wick, East London, creating a permanent new home for its 200 London-based staff. Built in 1868 as a factory to manufacture the world’s first synthetic plastic, the warehouse originally comprised four separate buildings and was identified as a significant piece of heritage within the Hackney Wick masterplan.

HTA Design, 2022

Step inside Adẹ̀kọ́ & Co., an interior design Studio located in The Design District. The District is made up of 16 buildings designed by 8 pioneering architects housing 170 workspaces. Join us for immersive activities, explore our creative process, materials, and moodboards, and enjoy a Q&A with founder Tolù Adẹ̀kọ́.

David Kohn Architects, 2021

Lee Valley VeloPark, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is renowned for hosting major sporting events. It’s where Team GB, including famous cyclists like Sir Chris Hoy MBE, Dame Laura Kenny DBE, and Sir Jason Kenny CBE made history. With seating for 5,500 overlooking the velodrome, we’re the only place in the UK, where you can do four Olympic cycling disciplines in one location.

Hopkins Architects, 2011

Meet some of the team behind the Reflect pavilion, a co-designed meanwhile installation on a former HS2 construction compound. The project was inspired by a programme of community engagement on the Regent’s Park Estate. Learn more about the history of the project, the co-design process and the future of the space before joining ODAC's tour of their Story Trail round the corner at 11am!

MATT+FIONA, 2024

Common Land has a long and rich tradition of bringing people together in the public realm, and this tradition continues today in the north-eastern corner of Hackney. This guided walking tour around Clapton Common, historic common land in Stamford Hill, will be led by some of the architects and community builders who have recently delivered new social infrastructure to serve a mixed community.

Artefact, 2023

Known as A Living Wonderland, the house serves as an immersive canvas for storytelling, collaboration, and contemporary design, where every detail has been curated with care. Playful, precise and poetic in equal measure, the home unfolds across three bedrooms, three reception rooms, and a lantern-roofed kitchen that opens onto terraced gardens.

Irenie Studio, 2025

Bustling pub/restaurant and art gallery, with live music, DJs and a huge waterside terrace.

The London Borough of Hounslow is 60! This exhibition in Hounslow Library explores what the borough looked like in 1965 in terms of architecture and industry, and what life was like for residents then. Contrasting with this, there are contemporary photos showing how our vibrant, diverse and lively borough has changed, with new architecture and life as it is lived now.

Sheppard Robson Architects, 2019

Set within the spiralling elegance of the Geometric Staircase this remarkable event takes place in one of the most visually striking and architecturally significant spaces. More than just a meditation session, this is a rare opportunity to experience a sensory dialogue between sound and stone, mind and spirit, granting public access to a part of St Paul’s in an entirely new and unforgettable way.

Sir Christopher Wren, 1710

Join us at Olympia as we open our doors for the first—and only—time to give the public a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at London's most ambitious transformation. Discover how this iconic landmark is becoming a brand new culture and entertainment destination, as our tour will showcase visitors what's to come.

Heatherwick Studio, 2020

Join artist Matt Ponting for a creative journey through Poplar where vibrant murals, bustling markets and hidden stories bring this fascinating and fast-evolving neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets to life.

Discover North London like never before in this one-of-a-kind sensory experience led by acclaimed performance artist Alisa Oleva. Together, we’ll step beyond sightseeing and into the city itself – using movement, touch, and deep listening to explore the hidden stories and unique architecture of the area’s most iconic Brutalist design. This is a creative, hands-on journey through some of the city’s most globally recognised built environment. Inspired by parkour and gentle choreography, we’ll move with and through the space around us – climbing, stretching, and slowing down to really feel the place beneath our feet. You don’t need any dance or parkour experience, just a curious body and an open mind. Perfect for visitors, locals, artists and anyone wanting a deeper connection to London’s urban landscape.

Peter Tabori, 1968

Join us for an Open Studio on 19th and 20th September to explore a behind-the-scenes look at bespoke textile recycling machinery and new product and material innovations in circularity and design. FibreLab’s Circular Textile Recycling & Innovation Hub is made possible by support from the Hackney Wick & Fish Island Community Development Trust and The Trampery.

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Terzetto unlocks a contemporary haven in Hampstead, using calm materiality and sharp craftsmanship to create a textural and natural home, at one with the elements and its environment.

ConForm, 2024

Thornhill House is a Grade II listed home, reimagined by Studio McLeod with contemporary elements, blending craft, natural light, and a deep sense of calm. Built in 1890 by Samuel Dockerill using salvaged elements from Wandsworth Manor and named after Sir James Thornhill, whose murals adorn its walls. Guided tours by the architects offer a rare opportunity to explore this private home and garden.

Studio McLeod, 2025

Kupfer Project Space is dedicated to advancing contemporary art for the public benefit. Our mission is to amplify the voices of emerging and underrepresented artists, nurturing their creative practice and professional growth. We achieve this through public exhibitions, studio subsidies, bespoke residencies, and opportunities to connect with the London contemporary art community.

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Join a guided walk through the former site of Loddiges Nursery to learn how their tropical plant trading transformed English gardens during the 1800’s. While visiting the now buried Palm House, we will hear of the migration stories of the plants themselves - how their ancestors were captured from wilderness homes across the world and transported by ship to this infamous nursery in East London.

Join us for arts, crafts and play activities led by the London Museum as part of their intergenerational Play Cycles programme.

Join Assemblage Collective for this manifesto zine-making workshop, all about expressing yourself and your ideas for a better world! Learn how to craft a zine (like a mini book, from the word maga-zine), then use a range of materials to draw, collage, stamp, write and create a playful manifesto for the future.

In this workshop, you’ll work with Studio Tip to turn real-world surplus materials — the kind that normally gets dumped after mass production — into playful objects and artworks. Offcuts, trims, odd shapes and leftovers. Stuff that didn’t make the cut. Until now.

In this half-day workshop, we invite participants to join us in a “collective dwelling” in / on Gordon Square in the heart of Bloomsbury. Mobilising dwelling as both a praxis of being in space and of slow thinking, we invite participants to share time with us as we collectively map this square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning.

Thomas Cubitt, 1820

11 Orleston Mews was designed by Caruso St John Architects in 1987.

Caruso St John Architects, 1987

A light renovation of a maisonette apartment in Golden Lane Estate, restoring missing original features, including an original dividing wall, reinstating its serving hatch, embellishing its colour and adding some more; celebrating modern living in this iconic Grade II listed residence.

Studio naama, 2025

Removing a wall, widening a hole, punching another and lowering a window - this should be enough. A play of diagonals and light across an orthographic plan; long channels of activity and thresholds - much more than would be expected. Small phenomena of light and warmth that circle across the house from dawn to dusk.

Studio naama, 2025