SPPARC will lead guided tours of the transformed Olympia site, offering insight into the architectural vision behind its new and adapted spaces. The tour explores SPPARC’s work highlighting Olympia’s evolving role in learning, culture, performance, and community. Together, these projects show the studio’s approach to heritage, reuse, and modern design to create a reimagined destination for London.

Heatherwick Studios, 2026

Join Heatherwick Studio's Carlos Parraga-Botero on a guided walking tour of the transformed Olympia . See how this 10-year project reimagined a historic Victorian venue into a cultural neighbourhood, blending landmark design - like its glass canopy and elevated street - with sustainable urbanism. Meeting point: Olympia Marketing Suite, Motorail Carpark, Maclise Rd.

Heatherwick Studio, 2026

This transformation of a derelict pub into an architecture studio doubles up as a gallery and lecture theatre. The new office is an example of the practice’s approach towards existing structures and intelligent architectural interventions.

Unknown, 1884

The Bhavan UK is part of the global Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan movement, with 110 centres worldwide, including 105 in India. As a leading centre for Indian arts, culture and education in London, The Bhavan promotes shared cultural understanding and brings people together through music, dance, language, philosophy and community learning.

Vascroft Constructors, 2002

This historic Grade II* site is shielded from view by a long wall but once inside your eyes and mind will be opened to its extraordinary heritage features such as the cloister garden and 130m of wall paintings, and the hidden history of those who shaped this place from 1669. Royalty, subterfuge, escape, resistance and an audacious plan. National Lottery Heritage grant has just been awarded.

John Francis Bentley, 1881

A walk around Brook Green with emphasis on the buried lost river, Stamford Brook.