Hafsa Adan and Simon Vickery appointed Open House Festival Curator and Programme Manager
Two significant new appointments to the team behind the UK’s largest architecture event.
Final weekend of Open House Festival 2023: Top 15 Places to Visit
The final weekend of the 2023 Open House Festival will see over 1,000 events take place at 400 sites across all London boroughs.
Explore a flat in the St Pancras Clock Tower, a rolling bridge and the Cheesegrater: it’s the closing weekend of Open House Festival 2023
1157 events from tours of sky scrapers to private homes are taking place across 400 sites.
Incredible architecture, fascinating walking tours and creative performances: Open House Festival 2023 opens with its most ambitious programme yet
2023 edition of the world’s largest festival of special architecture and neighbourhoods gets underway.
Brutalism, Jazz, Black History, Council Estates, Steam Engines and the BT Tower — one week until London's Open House Festival
One week until Open House Festival returns to the capital with a bang.
Press Release: Ten amazing spaces to visit during Open House Festival 2023
Open House Festival returns to London with its most ambitiously curated programme since the pandemic
Press Release: Deborah Denner elected new chair of Open City with Dav Bansal and Elle Dodd as vice chairs
Design review champion, architect and founder of Frame Projects, Deborah Denner to be next chair of the charity.
Open City Awards Four Golden Keys
Jonathan Nunn, Zoë Cave, Sue Thorburn and Muyiwa Oki awarded Golden Keys by Open City in recognition of their work.
Press Release: Top 20 places to visit during the 2022 London Open House Festival
20 top highlights from the 2022 Open House Festival programme which members of the public can visit during the festival fortnight
Open House Festival to celebrate nine special neighbourhoods to mark its 30th anniversary
New curatorial strategy to mark its 30th anniversary of Open House Festival will foreground London’s neighbourhoods
Press release: London Feeds Itself edited by Jonathan Nunn
25 chapters exploring London’s food and urbanism and 125 restaurant recommendations.
Open City Announces 2022 Golden Key Academicians
Dilip Lakhani, Leanne Tritton, Tom Wilkinson, Alpa Depani, Kate Macintosh and Melissa Woolford recognised for making London more open, accessible and equitable.
Press Release: Rightmove to partner with Open House Festival
Open House Festival announces new headline partnership with Rightmove celebrating London’s remarkable contemporary and historic housing.
Zoë Cave appointed chief curator of London’s Open House Festival
Zoë Cave appointed Chief Curator of London’s Open House Festival
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.