IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on ‘Open House 2023… the top 10 must-see buildings in London.
Merlin Fulcher writes for AJ:
Open House, the free two-week festival of London’s architectural heritage, has unveiled its line-up of buildings opening their doors to the public from 6 to 17 September.
Highlights of the annual event, which allows rare access to new and old architecture in all of London’s 33 boroughs, include the BT Tower, 10 Downing Street, and the under-construction new London Museum.
Other landmarks opening for free to the public include Acland Burghley School by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis Architects; the Isokon Building (Lawn Road Flats) by Wells Coates and the RCKa-designed Nourish Hub…..
Ten highlights from the 2023 Open House Festival
Winscombe Street 1960s terrace, N19
….an influential prototype for Camden social housing developments of the 1960s and 70s…..
Kenworthy Road, E9
This is a new self-build house….on a narrow infill site within a late Victorian terrace….
Tower Hamlets Town Hall, E1
The recently completed Tower Hamlets Town Hall….includes the restoration of the Grade II-listed former Royal London Hospital building and the addition of a new build extension.
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