Three buildings - one concrete, one Victorian, one timber - have been designed, adapted, restored and extended by Allies and Morrison to create the compact, integrated campus of studio space that the practice calls home.

Allies and Morrison, 2003

Proudly carved over the door are the words ‘Facts not Opinions’. Inside, the authentic sight - and smell - of Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works is a unique and direct link with an ingenious age of engineering.

Thomas Roger Smith, 1873

A modern conversion of a 19th-century hop warehouse and a 1980s office building, joined by a striking helical staircase. It is the home of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and other women’s health organisations.

Bennetts Associates, 2019

Unit 1.20 is one of 25 workshop and retail units in Oxo Tower Wharf and overlooks the courtyard towards the Bargehouse building from the first floor walkway. It is a multi-purpose space used as a workshop, showroom and teaching space.

Albert W Moore, 1930

Now home to the School of Historical Dress, the building was originally built in 1841 as the 'Royal South London Dispensary' for the working poor which closed in 1917. Bethlem used it as the Hospital for Nervous Diseases from 1920 to 1927.

Sydney Smirke, 1841

BalinHouseProjects is an artist-run space and home. It has published books about its activities over sixteen years. The refurbishment was a collaboration with architect Torange Khonsari of public works and carpenter Matthias Bruene.

Torange Khonsari, 1938

This rarely opened space began as a medical school library in 1902 as part of Guy's Hospital Medical School. It then became a more general bioscience library, part of which in 2009 became the Museum of Life Sciences. Building of red brick with additional stonework and partially covered in creeper. Internally are carved oak cabinets and ornate columns.

Unknown, 1826

The walk will start at the Old Operating Theatre Museum in Southwark and finish near Waterloo station, taking in major landmarks such as the Shard, or the former Bethlehem Hospital, alongside little known gems such as Octavia Hill's cottages for the poor. Based on the recently published book 'London's South Bank - The History'.

Thomas Cartwright, 1702

St Thomas' Church attic (1703) once part of old St Thomas' Hospital, houses the hospital's Herb Garret and the oldest surviving operating theatre (1822) in Europe.

Thomas Cartwright, 1703

Join a City Guide to explore the stories of queer monarchs; the Cathedral convenience; erotic theatre; cross-dressers and find out what Henry VIII had to do with it all.