Open House London
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squirmeliaWhere I've been in the past, by vague category:
(Updated to include 2022)
Religious:
St Alfege Church
St Anne's Church
Holy Trinity Church
New West End Synagogue
Kilmorey Mausoleum
Devonport Mausoleum
Masonic Temple
Freemasons' Hall
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
St Paul's, Newington
Town halls/clock towers:
Hampstead Old Town Hall
Finsbury Town Hall
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
Limehouse Town Hall
Guildhall
Caledonian Park Clocktower
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower
Kingsley Hall
York House
Official/government/police:
Foreign Office
Banqueting house
Admiralty house
Custom House
Thames River Police
Libraries:
Marx Memorial Library
Canada Water Library
Education:
London School of Economics
College of Psychic Studies
Blizard Building
The Centre of the Cell and Neuron Pod
City of London School
Rudolf Steiner House
Gresham College - Barnard's Inn Hall
Transport:
Whitechapel Crossrail
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail
Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room
20 years of TFL (self guided walk)
Barbican Platform Garden
Crystal Palace Subway
Stockwell Bus Garage
Museums/Galleries/theatre/music/film/etc:
Brunel Museum
Antique breadboard museum
Orleans Gallery
Village Underground
Wilton's Music Hall
The Stables
Sandycombe Lodge
ArtsLav
St John's Smith Square
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library
Altazimuth Pavilion
The Clockworks
New Museum of London
Now Gallery
Royal Opera House
Museum of Neoliberalism
Swedenborg House
People's Museum Somerstown
New River Head/Quentin Blake Illustration Centre
St Bride Foundation
Earl's Court Development company
Livery halls/profession specific:
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
Vintner's Hall
Apothecaries' Hall
Institution of Structural Engineers
Master Mariners/ HQS Wellington
Drapers' Hall
Cutlers' Hall (part of the Thames Festival as opposed to Open House.)
Painters' Hall
Artworkers' guild
Bunkers/grottos:
Neasden Bunker
St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
Shell Grotto
Anderson Shelter
Embassies/country specific:
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Romanian Cultural Institute
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK)
Pushkin House
Drinks/trays/bricks:
Sweetdram
Blackbook Winery
Seager Distillery Tower
Kaymet
E.H. Smith.
Pumping stations/industrial:
Greenwich Pumping Station
Abbey Mills Pumping Station
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Bunhill Heat and Power
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre
West India Dock Impounding Station
Battersea Power Station
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Energy Hub
Streatham Pumping Station
Walks:
Hackney Wick self-guided art tour
East Putney - Self-guided modern architecture walk
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt
Housing:
Bevin Court
One Blackfriars
Dawson Heights
Trellick Tower
Balfron Tower
37A Leamington Road Villas
BedZED
The Small House
Adaptable House
Tin House
Golden Lane Estate
Water Tower
Vanbrugh Park Estate
Nubia Way
Roman baths/historic:
Roman Plunge bath
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Old Turkish Baths
Spitalfields Charnel House
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
Crofton Roman Villa
Manor House Gardens ice house
Offices/tall buildings:
Tower 42
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)
Angel Building
30 St Mary Axe
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Gibbs Building
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Roca
Post Building
RSHP Studio (Leadenhall Building)
Meta's office
Low Line Arches
DSDHA
Shopping centres:
Peter Jones
One New Change
Ebury Edge
Hotels/restaurants:
Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont
The LuxPod
Babylon Roof Gardens
Community/gardens/sports:
Phoenix Gardens Community Building
C1
C3 - Bureau
Jellicoe Gardens
Treehouse
Walworth Garden
Law:
Lincoln's Inn
Watery:
Master Shipwright's House
Three Mills Lock
Victorian Waterpoint
Art structure:
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(Updated to include 2022)
Religious:
St Alfege Church
St Anne's Church
Holy Trinity Church
New West End Synagogue
Kilmorey Mausoleum
Devonport Mausoleum
Masonic Temple
Freemasons' Hall
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
St Paul's, Newington
Town halls/clock towers:
Hampstead Old Town Hall
Finsbury Town Hall
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
Limehouse Town Hall
Guildhall
Caledonian Park Clocktower
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower
Kingsley Hall
York House
Official/government/police:
Foreign Office
Banqueting house
Admiralty house
Custom House
Thames River Police
Libraries:
Marx Memorial Library
Canada Water Library
Education:
London School of Economics
College of Psychic Studies
Blizard Building
The Centre of the Cell and Neuron Pod
City of London School
Rudolf Steiner House
Gresham College - Barnard's Inn Hall
Transport:
Whitechapel Crossrail
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail
Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room
20 years of TFL (self guided walk)
Barbican Platform Garden
Crystal Palace Subway
Stockwell Bus Garage
Museums/Galleries/theatre/music/film/etc:
Brunel Museum
Antique breadboard museum
Orleans Gallery
Village Underground
Wilton's Music Hall
The Stables
Sandycombe Lodge
ArtsLav
St John's Smith Square
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library
Altazimuth Pavilion
The Clockworks
New Museum of London
Now Gallery
Royal Opera House
Museum of Neoliberalism
Swedenborg House
People's Museum Somerstown
New River Head/Quentin Blake Illustration Centre
St Bride Foundation
Earl's Court Development company
Livery halls/profession specific:
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
Vintner's Hall
Apothecaries' Hall
Institution of Structural Engineers
Master Mariners/ HQS Wellington
Drapers' Hall
Cutlers' Hall (part of the Thames Festival as opposed to Open House.)
Painters' Hall
Artworkers' guild
Bunkers/grottos:
Neasden Bunker
St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
Shell Grotto
Anderson Shelter
Embassies/country specific:
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Romanian Cultural Institute
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK)
Pushkin House
Drinks/trays/bricks:
Sweetdram
Blackbook Winery
Seager Distillery Tower
Kaymet
E.H. Smith.
Pumping stations/industrial:
Greenwich Pumping Station
Abbey Mills Pumping Station
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Bunhill Heat and Power
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre
West India Dock Impounding Station
Battersea Power Station
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Energy Hub
Streatham Pumping Station
Walks:
Hackney Wick self-guided art tour
East Putney - Self-guided modern architecture walk
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt
Housing:
Bevin Court
One Blackfriars
Dawson Heights
Trellick Tower
Balfron Tower
37A Leamington Road Villas
BedZED
The Small House
Adaptable House
Tin House
Golden Lane Estate
Water Tower
Vanbrugh Park Estate
Nubia Way
Roman baths/historic:
Roman Plunge bath
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Old Turkish Baths
Spitalfields Charnel House
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
Crofton Roman Villa
Manor House Gardens ice house
Offices/tall buildings:
Tower 42
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)
Angel Building
30 St Mary Axe
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Gibbs Building
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Roca
Post Building
RSHP Studio (Leadenhall Building)
Meta's office
Low Line Arches
DSDHA
Shopping centres:
Peter Jones
One New Change
Ebury Edge
Hotels/restaurants:
Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont
The LuxPod
Babylon Roof Gardens
Community/gardens/sports:
Phoenix Gardens Community Building
C1
C3 - Bureau
Jellicoe Gardens
Treehouse
Walworth Garden
Law:
Lincoln's Inn
Watery:
Master Shipwright's House
Three Mills Lock
Victorian Waterpoint
Art structure:
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