Festival Hub Heart of London

1st - 30th June

The Alfred Hitchcock London walk [Fringe] tube station The Alfred Hitchcock London Locations Walk W2 1 June Free admission

Alfred Hitchcock biographer/historian Sandra Beginning at Bayswater tube in London’s West End, the Shevey looks at the buildings in Hitchcock’s films tour moves east through Leicester Square in the heart of and contextualises them with the remit of the films. London and ends in .

Breaking boundaries: architectures of inclusion [Core] Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academy of Arts W1 3 June £15 / £9

Architecture is often seen as something that generates overcome them and create spaces of inclusion. Join the boundaries, rather than helps in breaking them down. Royal Academy of Arts for a panel discussion exploring Social, cultural and economic inequalities are literally the positive potential in architecture and takes a closer built into our buildings and cities, but instead of delving look at how it can overcome, rather than emphasising on these boundaries, academics, journalists and boundaries of race, gender, or ability. designers are invited to consider how architecture can

Sketch Bots with the Bartlett [Core] The The National Gallery W2 9 & 16 June Free admission

Join the National Gallery to redefine the line and push and architects from STORE Projects and experiment with the boundaries of drawing at the Gallery. Organised in coding to create a collaborative drawing design. collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture, this family friendly event invites you to work with artists

Classical London: A walking tour through [Fringe] Strand entrance to Somerset House ADAM Architecture WC2 12 June Free admission

Join George Saumarez Smith. a leading classical architects including Wren, Chambers, Nash and Lutyens. architect and director of the award-winning practice Starting at the Strand entrance to Somerset House ADAM Architecture, on an architectural walking tour Strand and finishing in Berkeley Square, the tour will through Westminster. Focusing on the development take approximately 1 ½ hours. The tour is free but with of the classical tradition over the centuries, the tour only 25 places available, please pre-book and arrive by will include work by some of the greatest of British 5.30pm for a prompt start.

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1st - 30th June

Between Life and Death: A Walk ‘on the edge’ around Starting point near Leicester Square tube London’s West End [Core] WC2 Footprints of London £12 12 June

Walk ‘on the edge’ – between the West End and what was and relating them to Hogarth’s famous print of Gin Alley. once countryside, between respectability and poverty, Discover how the area was improved with the earliest even between life and death. This guided tour explores surviving social housing and the way in which architects the alleys and courtyards by Covent Garden, formerly have reinvented these areas - in some cases perhaps the site of London’s most notorious slums and now an more controversially than in others - for the lifestyles of area of extravagant leisure, hearing descriptions of the 21st century Londoners. buildings around Seven Dials and the Rookery of St Giles

Tour of Her Majesty’s Theatre with Post-Tour Cocktail [Fringe] Her Majesty’s Theatre Her Majesty’s Theatre SW1 14 June £16

Take a tour of the lavish Her Majesty’s Theatre and enjoy There is a fitting sense of symmetry that, having started a post-tour cocktail in the bar. If the walls of this historic life as an opera house, it still hosts the West End’s theatre could talk, they’d doubtless tell some fascinating second-longest running production: the timeless classic stories. Renamed, rebuilt and refurbished numerous that is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. times since 1705, Her Majesty’s Theatre is still at the Join Her Majesty’s Theatre for a rare tour of the French beating heart of London’s live performance scene. Renaissance design and enjoy a delicious cocktail in the sumptuous bar.

LFA Symposium: Thresholds or barriers? Royal Academy of Arts Perspectives on boundaries and architecture [Core] W1 London Festival of Architecture £25 / £15 14 June

This year’s LFA symposium offers a rich exploration of A second panel delves into the role of intangible the role and application of boundaries in architecture boundaries in our understanding of the built environment and placemaking, through two expert panels and a and spaces around us, examining everything from keynote in conversation. Building on a range of case role the Dayton Peace Agreement played in Bosnia studies, the first panel debates the impact of tangible and Herzegovina’s built environment, to the future of boundaries on our daily physical experience of the city. architectural heritage in the age of digital technologies. Sponsored by the Built Environment Trust.

Look up! Hidden gems in the West End [Fringe] Green Park tube station Look Up London W1 15 & 22 June Admission TBC

How often do we rush down well known streets before. From powerful family crests to secret symbols without looking up? This walk will explore the hidden and stories of one and despair, Look Up London will architectural details that we only see if we pause and reveal the fascinating stories hiding above our eyeline. raise our gaze. Join a walk along some of London’s most famous streets, spotting details you’ve never noticed

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1st - 30th June

Illuminating BAFTA: Benedetti Architects’ scheme to revitalise BAFTA the Piccadilly home of the moving image arts [Fringe] W1J Benedetti Architects Free admission 20 June

In the 225 capacity Princess Anne Theatre at the heart role in British culture. The proposals enhance BAFTA’s of BAFTA’s headquarters, Renato Benedetti will describe international identity as a centre of excellence for the comprehensive expansion and improvements to motion picture arts, and sensitively balance members’ BAFTA’s Grade II listed building - a five-year journey needs with public access and revenue for cultural, that has transformed BAFTA’s ability to deliver its wide environmental and financial sustainability. range of charitable activities to re-affirm its pre-eminent

Urban Jungle: Boundaries [Core] Smeg Flagship Store Nic Monisse SW1 20 June £10

Urban Jungle is a comedy safari, blending stand-up with London and cities around the world! Nic’s sharp, off-the- short documentaries that showcase amazing design, cuff wit will have you laughing as you explore how we’re uncover hidden beauty and spotlight the awkward shaped by architecture, landscape, and urban design. encounters that are part of living, working and playing in

RA Lego Architecture Challenge [Fringe] Burlington House Royal Academy of Arts W1 23 June Free admission

As part of this year’s Big Architecture Family Day at the We invite the practices to consider a bit of known RA, we will invite practices to explore the boundaries heritage and propose new structures that avoid clear between historic and contemporary architecture delimitation within the urban realm. Join us and see how in our urban realm.Watch three of the UK’s leading architects consider their surrounding built environment architectural practices battle it out to create the most and forge a new relationship between historic and innovative and imaginative project that explores the contemporary architecture, all in Lego form. boundaries between old and new.

Hard hat tours of The Londoner [Fringe] The Londoner, Leicester Square Woods Bagot W1 23 June Free admission

Woods Bagot is offering hard hat tours of new hotel, The Odeon cinema and a 1,000-capacity ballroom. At 30m Londoner (for Edwardian Group) on Leicester Square. deep and with six levels below ground, this will be the Set to open in 2020, the luxury 5-star hotel will offer 350 deepest habitable-grade commercial building basement rooms and 35 suites, multiple restaurants and lounges, in London, and among the deepest in the world. a rooftop bar, underground spa with swimming pool,

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1st - 30th June

Raze it to the ground or build around? [Fringe] 6 Burlington Gardens Royal Academy of Arts W1 24 June £15 / £9

Inspired by the spirit and conviction of the late Will Alsop apparent delimitation. According to Will Alsop, every RA, we bring together practitioners, writers and critics to building contains references, memories and meaning for make conclusive arguments on the prime conditions for many people, and should therefore be loved, reworked architectural creativity. Led by architect, educator and and kept. Join us and see competing sides make their writer Sam Jacob, the panel will explore if architecture case in short dynamic presentations, only to then take on should clearly distinguish between heritage and the opposing parties in lively architectural debate. contemporary, or whether the two can co-exist without

Learning from Las Vegas in London [Core] Hippodrome Casino Rob Fiehn, Bobby Jewell & Luke Neve WC2H 24 June Admission TBC

Hosted in London’s Hippodrome Casino and inspired by performances and films that will explore the book’s classic postmodern text by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott legacy and London’s aesthetics and architecture. Key Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas In curators, architects, designers and academics will London presents an evening of symbolism, ornament examine our love affair with postmodernism and its and excess. This event will unravel the boundaries of origins in a city that has become an international symbol taste, set in the heart of the capital, featuring talks, of extravagance.

Bond Street Day Walk [Fringe] 63 New Bond St Publica W1 26 June Admission TBC

Focussing on the borders and boundaries that define Celebrating the recent public realm improvement Bond Street and the surrounding area, this walk project led by Publica for , considers the relationship between both Old and the walk will encompass Bond Street, with stops along New Bond Street, as well as the street’s improved the way to highlight the improvements made to the connectivity to the wider West End. character and identity of this iconic street.

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