Open House London
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squirmeliaWhere I've been so far:
2019:
Master Shipwright's House
Greenwich Pumping Station
Seager Distillery Tower
Altazimuth Pavilion
Devonport Mausoleum
St Alfege Church
St John's Smith Square
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Roman Plunge bath
HQS Wellington
London School of Economics
Hampstead Old Town Hall
2017:
Whitechapel Crossrail – Quite a lot of scaffolding.
Wilton's Music Hall – Pretty! Papier-mache balconies and barley sugar iron columns.
Sweetdram – I tasted some escubac.
Bunhill Heat and Power – Provides heat and energy for over 850 homes and two leisure centres.
Institution of Structural Engineers – Had some good meccano models of bridges.
Bevin Court – An interesting Modernist building with a great staircase and a 3D printed bust of Bevin (and not Lenin).
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility – I went on the standard waste tour, and then the recycling tour, which was fascinating.
Kaymet – They make very fancy trays.
One Blackfriars – Great views!
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room – Also had an exhibition of old photos of Peckham.
2016:
Dawson Heights (Great views, interesting architecture)
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail (half finished escalators and new platforms and seats that were still covered up and big tunnels!)
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre (Interesting to see how they clean water, and they have water research centre there also)
Three Mills Lock
Kingsley Hall (A place with a lot of history - started by two women to help the community. Ghandi stayed there).
Caledonian Park Clocktower (Great views, and I stopped time!)
Victorian Waterpoint
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower (Wyverns! Interesting to see how the detail in the hotel changes as you go up the floors)
West India Dock Impounding Station (controls the water level in the docks.. Canary Wharf may flood without it!)
Thames River Police (Old photos of river police, and random objects)
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library (Surprising amount of Loch Ness Monster pictures)
Brunel Museum
2015:
1. Tower 42
2. Guildhall
3. Barbican Platform Garden
4. Abbey Mills Pumping Station
5. Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
6. Trellick Tower
7. 37A Leamington Road Villas
8. New West End Synagogue
9. Embassy of the Slovak Republic
10. St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
11. Kilmorey Mausoleum
12. Rudolf Steiner House
13. Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont
2014:
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt (well, did a bit of it)
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)
Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Marx Memorial Library
Finsbury Town Hall
Angel Building
The Small House
ArtsLav
2013:
Crystal Palace Subway
Canada Water Library
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Brunel Museum
Battersea Power Station
Peter Jones
Holy Trinity Church
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Romanian Cultural Institute
Adaptable House
2012:
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Town Hall
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Masonic Temple
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Custom House
Apothecaries' Hall
City of London School
One New Change
2011:
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Spitalfields Charnel House
Sandycombe Lodge
The LuxPod
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
College of Psychic Studies
Balfron Tower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower
2008:
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Master Mariners
Foreign Office
Banqueting house? Admiralty house? My records are incomplete for the Saturday.
Babylon Roof Gardens
Shell Grotto
York House
Orleans Gallery
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
2007:
Vintner's Hall
30 St Mary Axe
Old Turkish Baths
Village Underground
2006:
BedZED
Gibbs Building
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Blizard Building
Brunel Museum
2005:
Neasden Bunker
St Anne's Church
2019:
Master Shipwright's House
Greenwich Pumping Station
Seager Distillery Tower
Altazimuth Pavilion
Devonport Mausoleum
St Alfege Church
St John's Smith Square
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Roman Plunge bath
HQS Wellington
London School of Economics
Hampstead Old Town Hall
2017:
Whitechapel Crossrail – Quite a lot of scaffolding.
Wilton's Music Hall – Pretty! Papier-mache balconies and barley sugar iron columns.
Sweetdram – I tasted some escubac.
Bunhill Heat and Power – Provides heat and energy for over 850 homes and two leisure centres.
Institution of Structural Engineers – Had some good meccano models of bridges.
Bevin Court – An interesting Modernist building with a great staircase and a 3D printed bust of Bevin (and not Lenin).
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility – I went on the standard waste tour, and then the recycling tour, which was fascinating.
Kaymet – They make very fancy trays.
One Blackfriars – Great views!
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room – Also had an exhibition of old photos of Peckham.
2016:
Dawson Heights (Great views, interesting architecture)
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail (half finished escalators and new platforms and seats that were still covered up and big tunnels!)
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre (Interesting to see how they clean water, and they have water research centre there also)
Three Mills Lock
Kingsley Hall (A place with a lot of history - started by two women to help the community. Ghandi stayed there).
Caledonian Park Clocktower (Great views, and I stopped time!)
Victorian Waterpoint
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower (Wyverns! Interesting to see how the detail in the hotel changes as you go up the floors)
West India Dock Impounding Station (controls the water level in the docks.. Canary Wharf may flood without it!)
Thames River Police (Old photos of river police, and random objects)
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library (Surprising amount of Loch Ness Monster pictures)
Brunel Museum
2015:
1. Tower 42
2. Guildhall
3. Barbican Platform Garden
4. Abbey Mills Pumping Station
5. Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
6. Trellick Tower
7. 37A Leamington Road Villas
8. New West End Synagogue
9. Embassy of the Slovak Republic
10. St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
11. Kilmorey Mausoleum
12. Rudolf Steiner House
13. Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont
2014:
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt (well, did a bit of it)
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)
Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Marx Memorial Library
Finsbury Town Hall
Angel Building
The Small House
ArtsLav
2013:
Crystal Palace Subway
Canada Water Library
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Brunel Museum
Battersea Power Station
Peter Jones
Holy Trinity Church
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Romanian Cultural Institute
Adaptable House
2012:
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Town Hall
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Masonic Temple
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Custom House
Apothecaries' Hall
City of London School
One New Change
2011:
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Spitalfields Charnel House
Sandycombe Lodge
The LuxPod
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
College of Psychic Studies
Balfron Tower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower
2008:
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Master Mariners
Foreign Office
Banqueting house? Admiralty house? My records are incomplete for the Saturday.
Babylon Roof Gardens
Shell Grotto
York House
Orleans Gallery
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
2007:
Vintner's Hall
30 St Mary Axe
Old Turkish Baths
Village Underground
2006:
BedZED
Gibbs Building
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Blizard Building
Brunel Museum
2005:
Neasden Bunker
St Anne's Church
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Hackney Wick self-guided art tour
Antique breadboard museum
East Putney - Self-guided modern architecture walk