The Grade II listed home of Quakers in Britain, Friends House won an RIBA bronze medal in 1927. The building houses the central offices of Quakers in Britain as well as their library and archive, event spaces, a café, bookshop, worship space, courtyard, and garden. Friends House serves as a hub for an array of events, meetings, conferences, and gatherings for organisations and individuals.

Hubert Lidbetter, 1926

How does a knowledge quarter start? What leads it to establish and grow? We will explore how the different communities involved in learning, research, healthcare and bio-science industries, use the buildings, streets and squares of London’s health and life sciences knowledge quarter in Bloomsbury. We will consider what drew institutions to co-locate and what drives the knowledge quarter today.

The church (1822 - Grade I listed) is an early and important example of Greek Revival architecture in London. Significant features include the caryatids and tower copied from the Acropolis and the atmospheric crypt.

William Inwood and Henry Inwood, 1822

The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. Visit to view our latest exhibition 'Looted: Two Families, Nazi Theft and the Search for Restitution' which unearths difficult questions about memory, responsibility and justice through the personal story of two families' project of restitution and restoration.

Barbara Weiss Architects, 2011

London’s tallest secular building when it opened as the HQ of the University of London and home to the Ministry of Information during WWII, this Grade II* listed landmark features Classicism and Art Deco elements.

Charles Holden, 1933

A meanwhile use building to support the main works at Euston Station to provide a new main terminal for the HS2 train link. The new facilities comprise a new off-site manufactured building providing high quality space for HS2 personnel working at the site together with a new Construction Skills Learning Centre, public park, allotments and community facilities.

Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects (FBM Architects), 2022

Two Grade II listed buildings, 4-storey yellow stock brick with a rusticated stucco base. No. 57 has an attic level with a garden at the rear. Staircases are intact and each room still retains its high ceilings and ornamental fireplaces. The garden behind No. 58 has been developed to include an additional meeting room, and an interior development has created conference rooms in the lower ground floor

James Burton, 1803

This innovative housing model accommodates a family of 16, showcasing adaptive design that harmonizes with its environment. The structure features pioneering use of bamboo and palm materials, incorporates buoyant platforms, and thoughtfully connects interior spaces to the waterline, blending sustainability with aesthetics.

Grade ll listed Oxford Movement Anglican church built 1887-88. Historic England describe the exterior as ‘quirky and aggressive’ but the interior is ‘very spare and elegant'. The building is interesting for its 2019 conversion of a crypt area, partly rented commercially to a drama school but also used for community groups. On Historic England's Heritage at risk register with serious cracks.

Joseph Peacock, 1887

An evening event launching a new heritage trail exploring the lost heritage of Gilbert Bayes' 'Art in Everyday Life' sculptures scattered across the St Pancras Housing Estates. Enjoy a guided walk of the new trail, and hear from those involved in the project, including architects Edit Collective, Central St Martins, artists Camilla Bliss and Melanie Jackson, and A Space for Us People's Museum.

G Topham Forrest, 1927

Bloomsbury holds the densest concentration of museums, universities, and libraries in London, housing an array of objects and spaces for teaching and research. These institutions' architecture has structured knowledge and shaped scholars’ experience over two and a half centuries – forming a built record of the values associated with learning from the Enlightenment to today's entrepreneurial knowledge economy.

Sydney Smirke, 1854