This is Walmer Yard in Notting Hill. Designed by Peter Salter, it is just one of the amazing locations to have featured in London's annual Open House Festival. What do you think of these unique courtyard homes? 🏡

🎙️“You’ve got a brutalist 1970s building there that you could turn into the grooviest workspace on Earth”

Merlin Fulcher making the case for a Bastion House retrofit in another great episode of the The Brief, by Open City

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This week's The Brief podcast features Simon Pitkeathley, CEO of Camden Highline discussing rocketing private rents, Faversham's King Charles 'ideal town', Bastion House demolition plans and Urbex explorers scaling skyscrapers... 🎙️🏙️ tune in now shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…

📢Open City is looking for an enthusiastic Podcast Producer to work on the award-winning show The Brief, as well as audio tours and associated Open City Podcast audio content🎙️🎧Application deadline 24 April, more details here:
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Our latest printed tour explores the Grade II-listed Barbican Estate and is authored by tour guide Billy Hurley Reading. Receive a new tour every month with our Pocket London subscription. Also available to purchase individually on our online shop 🏙️ shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/pr…

Looking for a fun way to enjoy London's fine and warm this weekend! We have Saturday tickets available for our London Wall, White City and Westminster landmarks tours... plus later in the week Golden Lane~Barbican and our legendary London Pubs tour 🚶 open-city.org.uk/events

One of the great locations to feature in last year's Open House Festival -- this is Skip House on the Antepavilion site in Bermondsey which was built by Harrison Marshall of CAUKIN Studio as an experimental micro-home 🏡

Another May event just announced!

15 May: Jonathan Nunn, founder of Vittles and editor of LONDON FEEDS ITSELF, will be here to discuss the new edition of the book with Owen Hatherley

Book here: lrb.me/4h3

our first big event for london feeds itself will be on polish food!

Kasia Tee,Barclay, pawel glodowski and jan woroniecki will be discussing the invisible polish contribution to london’s food culture at Ognisko Polskie. there will be pierogi.

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📢Chief Operating Officer Lucy Pickford will lead Open City in the interim as Phineas Harper steps down after four years heading up the organisation🗝️Read our full press release here open-city.org.uk/blog/chief-ope…

🎙️Great to catch up with the @opencity_uk team yesterday! We covered council housing, AI, heat pumps, The Palace of Westminster and more in a fascinating discussion.

Thanks to the team for an insightful conversation.

🎧Listen in here: buff.ly/43woA10

Four years to the day since Phineas Harper joined Open City on the cusp of the Covid pandemic, they have announced they are moving on to pursue more writing and curatorial projects. Read our full blog post here... open-city.org.uk/blog/phineas-h…

Well done Eleanor Marshall 🎉 good quality public housing = better public health for everyone 🏡

Thanks Phin, that means a lot coming from the Open City CEO. You lot always run an AMAZING programme.

Last week, I spent a freezing but brilliant day exploring architecture across the Isle of Dogs with the help of guides by Rosamund Lily West (she/her) Open City & Things You Can Buy 👏

Got me feeling v inspired for future projects!

Went on a great ⁦Open City⁩ ⁦Merlin Fulcher⁩ tour, highlight was the three Turn houses designed by the wonderful Peter Aldington (and built with his wife Margaret) All the houses he designed are listed- more than any other living architect.

The second edition of LONDON FEEDS ITSELF, edited by Jonathan Nunn, is out on 12 March.

Early copies are available on Open City's website: shop.open-city.org.uk/products/londo…

🎙️’Never has the built environment been in the headlines so much and for so long’.
Rob Fiehn and host Sahiba Chadha discuss the contentious South Bank and M&S Oxford Street cases, on another excellent episode of The Brief by Open City

Was biggest mistake in all this not formally adopting the Goblin line which was already widely used as a useful name?

Following a successful collaboration co-creating a printed walking guide to the architecture of Knightsbridge, Open City is delighted to have received a donation from the iconic London fashion brand Burberry open-city.org.uk/blog/thank-you…