Explore the Building Centre, a landmark home for architecture and the built environment in the heart of London. Discover its distinctive modernist spaces, public galleries and exhibitions, and learn how the building has brought together architects, designers, makers and city-shapers for more than 90 years.

Messrs. Tapperell & Haase, 1914

Discover the many ordinary and working class people who lived and worked in Bloomsbury. Join me on a tour of Bloomsbury's mews and back streets to learn about slum quarters and social housing, street traders and factories, listening to marginalised voices from the time along the way.

A Grade II listed art deco theatre in the heart of London. Built in 1929, this stylish building has had a varied and colourful history as a cinema, variety hall and music venue, as well as its original and current life as a theatre.

William & TR Milburn, 1929

The leafy Georgian streets of Bloomsbury were shaken up in the 1930s by a new wave of development, from great academic institutions to speculative flats for modern urban living, plus probably the most stylish car showroom in London. We'll explore the range of 1930s architectural styles used in some famous and not so famous buildings, and even take a peek inside where we can.

The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. From 1939 to 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. Our latest exhibition 'Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims' explores how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave labourers, alongside the first-hand stories of the victims.

Barbara Weiss Architects, 2011

Hear about the history of Soho on a walk around some of the sites associated with colourful characters of yesteryear. From Soho's beginnings as a fashionable suburb in the seventeenth century up to the 1950s, I regale you with delicious snippets of history. We end the tour with the option of refreshments at the birthplace of British RocknRoll.

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

The West End Open House Neighbourhood Festival kicks with a celebratory musical and dance performance in Soho Square Gardens, reflecting the festival theme of "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner!", celebrating the many communities that have come to live and work in the West End and and made London their home.

Richard Frith, 1680

The landmarked 1950s building has been transformed by Philippe Starck into a surreal Cocteau like dream world, epitomising a new luxury that is smart, pared down and tempered with a healthy dose of wit and irony. With rooms designed by designer Tim Andreas of Banjo, the rooms maintain their sense of whimsy while offering state of the art details and luxurious touches at every turn.

Reginald H Uren, 1958

An original walking trail set to a celebratory soundtrack: uncovering lively tales of secret doors, latest crazes and 300 years of entertaining Soho - from Georgian masquerades to the beat of the present day. A collaboration between the Museum of Soho and site-responsive, immersive theatre makers Gideon Reeling, blending digital tech with performance

Loughborough Pearson's red brick building is unimposing from the outside, but inside is a riot of Gothic Revival design. Golden mosaics reveal the character of the Grade II* listed chapel, built as part of the Middlesex Hospital.

J. L. Pearson, 1891