Moving through the King’s Cross area, the tour explores how green spaces shape everyday life. Walk with a landscape architect to see how design intentions are maintained, adapted, or reinterpreted by the people who use them. By speaking with designers, planners and local residents as part of the tour research, the tour captures stories that reveal how public spaces are imagined, experienced and shared.

Root ab Erect, 2025

The Stirling-prize shortlisted King’s Cross Masterplan established a framework for the incremental redevelopment of this industrial heritage site through a mix of uses and a network of public spaces structuring new urban blocks and knitting the site into its context.

Allies and Morrison, Porphyrios Associates, 2007

Join this walking tour to explore London's energy history and its impact on sustainability. Visit the King's Cross canals to see old and new infrastructure. Topics include London's carbon footprint, quantifying health benefits from green infrastructure, and the role of the built environment in meeting the net zero targets. Discover how London’s past has shaped its sustainable future.

Camden Tour Guides Association will celebrate the history and heritage of Somers Town with a day of dedicated tours exploring the rich social history and architecture of this community, now a regeneration area, sandwiched between the major transport hubs of Euston and St Pancras stations. Hear about its historical roots as a 19th Century slum and the housing reformers who transformed it.

Explore a fascinating working-class neighbourhood with a radical and surprising past. Learn of its efforts to hold onto its distinctive and proud culture in the face of rapid gentrification, especially within the neighbouring St Pancras and King's Cross districts. Discover the place of nature, community, heritage, and wellbeing in a neighbourhood that's changing very rapidly.

Queer Britain Museum is the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum. Housed in a converted Victorian building in the heart of the regenerated King’s Cross area, the galleries feature over 200 objects from over 100 years of queer history. At Open House 2026, Queer Britain’s volunteer guides will give talks demonstrating the museum’s mission to reclaim, preserve and inspire LGBTQ+ history.

, 1852

A walk round Somers Town by locals founders of a museum to preserve an area that feels at risk of extinction. A Space for Us – People’s Museum Somers Town is a space to preserve local voice and the area; to celebrate an incredible ‘radical, reformers and uncommon people’s‘ histories, to record the change now, as well as to campaign and preserve local working class heritage.

A great little museum set in the Grade 2 listed Ossulston Estate - a prime example of pre-war Social housing - based on Karl Marz Hof in Vienna. Open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-5pm.

G Topham Forest, 1927

Dating from 11/12C and standing on the oldest site of Christian worship in London (3C). Inside is much 17C ornamentation and outstanding 6C Altar Stone, reputed to have belonged to St Augustine. Surrounding Churchyard, containing tombs of Sir John Soane, Mary Wollstonecraft and others, has been extensively restored and recently refurbished.

Ever wondered just what makes a building interesting, characterful and joyful? It’s not just a vague sensation or an indescribable feeling. There ARE specific things you can look for. Explore the buildings around you using the Humanise Spotter’s Guide, a mobile-friendly guide which invites you to look more closely at the buildings around us, and think about how they’re shaping how we all feel.

Visit Making House, the London home of Heatherwick Studio, a team of over 280 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Explore our new exhibition and the exciting stories of London Olympia, Little Island in New York, the central business district in Xi’an, and Birmingham City's football stadium, among many other extraordinary design projects.

Heatherwick Studio, 2023