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Where I've been for Open House London weekend so far:

2016:
Dawson Heights
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre
Three Mills Lock
Kingsley Hall
Caledonian Park Clocktower
Victorian Waterpoint
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower
West India Dock Impounding Station
Thames River Police
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library
Brunel Museum

2015:
Tower 42
Guildhall
Barbican Platform Garden
Abbey Mills Pumping Station
Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
Trellick Tower
37A Leamington Road Villas
New West End Synagogue
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
Kilmorey Mausoleum
Rudolf Steiner House
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
Admiralty House
Banqueting 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

Photos on Flickr: Open House London

Great views across London from Tower 42 and the Trellick Tower; visited the cathedral of sewage (Abbey Mills); wandered on a disused platform that has a garden on it, with cabbage and tomatoes and bees at Barbican station; wore a hard hat and fluorescent jacket and walked on the roof of the new Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail station; saw brutalist architecture at the Trellick Tower and the Embassy of the Slovak Republic; visited a synagogue for the first time; wandered down into a large air raid shelter, underground in East Sheen; stood inside the Kilmorey Mausoleum; learnt about expressionist architecture at the Rudolf Steiner House; and went inside a hotel room inside a sculpture that looks a bit like a robot.

These are the places I visited during Open House this year:

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

Trellick Tower: