Open City celebrates conclusion of It’s My City Too 2024-25
Get in touch if you're interested in bringing this programming to your school in 2026
Enjoy a boat or walking tour for your spring and summer socials
Did you know Open City’s boat tour and walking tours can be booked for private group events?
Celebrate the 50th edition of our Pocket Printed Tours
You can purchase Nine Elms on our online shop where you can also sign up as a subscriber
Applications are now open for Open House Festival 2025
We are now open for applications for this year’s edition of the Open House Festival, which will take place 13-21 September.
Open City is recruiting new trustees
Open City is recruiting a number of new trustees to provide collective leadership and oversight of the charity
Zoë Dennington is appointed Open City Education Director
Zoë will head up the charity’s growing education programme in London and Birmingham
Introducing the all-new Open City Podcast
We are announcing a major refresh of the Open City Podcast introducing a new line up of shows and hosts
Meet the 2025 Golden Key Academy Cohort
Learn more about this year’s Golden Key Academy students.
Tickets are now on sale for Accelerate Debates: Designing a Safer City
What does it mean to feel safe in the city?
Open City Friends 2025 Events Programme is now live
Become a Friend of Open City and support our goal of opening London for everyone.
Read the Open House Festival 2024 Evaluation Report
Read this year’s full Open House Festival evaluation report.
Open City celebrates Young City Makers in East London
This week, we recognised the ideas and achievements of over 1000 primary school students.
Preorder our Pocket London 2024 Box Bundle
It’s been a great year for Pocket London, and it’s not over yet...
Discover Open House Festival’s rising star photographers
Learn more about our collaboration with The Photography Foundation supported by Arts Council England
Cruise into the end of 2024 aboard our Architecture on the Thames tour
Join us aboard our final Architecture on the Thames boat tour of the year
London's next generation of urban tour guides celebrate graduation
Huge congratulations to this year’s Golden Key Academy graduates
See the amazing photos submitted to our photography contest
Did your photograph make it into our Festival Photography Gallery?
Open House Festival comes to a close, but your chance to get involved isn't over
What's coming up at Open City and how to support us.
Competition: Your Festival photos could win you a £200 voucher
We invite you to share your favourite photos taken at this year’s Open House Festival.
Open City appoints Manijeh Verghese as new CEO
Open City is delighted to announce that Manijeh Verghese will join the charity as its new CEO. Manijeh will bring her long standing commitment to engaging and empowering people to shape their cities and spaces, along with her extensive experience in cultural leadership, architectural education and in widening access to the industry.
Open City Programmes
Accelerate
For over a decade, Open City has run Accelerate, a free programme supporting young people from under-represented communities to pursue creative careers in engineering, architecture, design and city-making.
Tours and events
Open City runs an adventurous programme of year-round walking, cycling and boat tours, debates and lectures.
Open House London Festival
With thousands of visitors across all 33 London Boroughs, Open House London Festival is the largest and most inclusive festival of architecture and neighbourhoods in the world.
Open House Worldwide
Open City is part of a global network of festivals dedicated opening up and celebrating special buildings and places from New York to Maputo and beyond.