Buildings with volunteer slots available
If you want to volunteer at this year’s festival but you’re not sure what to sign up for, here’s a list of just some of the exciting sites that still have volunteer slots available.
Alternatively, you can browse the full festival programme here.
33 (Design District, Greenwich Peninsula)
A three-storey decorative folly, drawing sightlines through the central park towards the Victorian terraces beyond. The structure is timber studwork, with the design featuring a galvanized steel, powder coated staircase in vibrant yellow.
Reimagining Orchard Gardens Community Centre
Kin Structures is exploring new approaches to building and sustaining community + cultural infrastructure. Their work brings people together through programmes of art and culture to create just futures, recognising the potential of art and culture to encourage imagination and cultivate exchange.
3D Printing at Design District
Established in 2016. Champion 3D is now based in the iconic red brick and green building A4 at the Design District in North Greenwich. Champion 3D is one of very few 3D printing studios in London.
Aga Khan Centre
Arranged over nine levels above ground plus two basement levels, the Aga Khan Centre is located at the centre of the King’s Cross development on a corner site facing Lewis Cubitt Park and Handyside Street.
Acland Burghley School
An important example of 1960s comprehensive school design in the Brutalist style. Acland Burghley has recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and a Grade II listing.
Meridian Water Masterplan Tour
A unique site in the borough of Enfield. Meridian Water will be a distinctive neighbourhood designed to nurture economic, environmental and social sustainability.
Central Hill Estate
Tree-lined housing estate on the ridge of Central Hill & Crystal Palace, incorporating open spaces, views over London, gardens and sense of community.
Rogers House, Wimbledon
22 Parkside was designed by Richard Rogers in 1968 as a total composition of house and garden. It was a prototype for an industrialized building with a long-life armature and a lightweight wrapping enclosing flexible space that drifts from inside to out.
Fitzrovia Chapel
Loughborough Pearson's red brick building is unimposing from the outside, but inside is a riot of Gothic Revival design. Golden mosaics reveal the character of the Grade II* listed chapel, built as part of the Middlesex Hospital.
Golden Lane Estate
Golden Lane is one of Britain’s most important post war housing developments. A campaign called Imagine Golden Lane at Net Zero started during lockdown. This resident-led project has a vision for Golden Lane.
Greenside Primary School
One of only two schools designed using Ernő Goldfinger's school building system - precast reinforced concrete frame with brick infill. Fine, top-lit mural of school subjects by Gordon Cullen, restored 2014. Grade II* listed.
Museum of Neoliberalism
In 2019 Darren Cullen and Gavin Grindon co-curated the Museum of Neoliberalism at The World Transformed festival in Brighton. After the festival closed the museum was reinstalled in Leegate Shopping Centre and opened to the public for free.
Roca London Gallery
Designed by the world renowned Zaha Hadid Architects, Roca London Gallery is a unique space where water acts as the architectural theme.
Sands End Arts & Community Centre
Amongst the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist 2022 sits Mæ Architect's Sands End Arts & Community scheme in Fulham. The centre consists of a single-storey building comprising bright, airy and flexible event spaces and a community café.
Walworth Garden
The timber frame building at the heart of Walworth Garden was designed by Matrix Feminist Design Co-Operative and built by women. It represents the community's history of activism; the same ethos that transformed this site from dereliction into a thriving community garden.
White Collar Factory
Office space that combines the wisdom of well-built industrial spaces with innovative design, sustainable principles, future-proof flexibility and panoramic views. It has achieved BREEAM Outstanding.
Landmark Arts Centre
Victorian church of cathedral proportions, built in the French Gothic style, through public subscription. Grade II* listed. Restored 1993, now functioning as a community arts centre.
Stanley Arts
A public hall, theatre and gallery in grand Edwardian style. Grade II listed, Stanley made fun of the Victorian style with grand ornamentation. It reflects Stanley's interest in science, the arts and public cultural improvement.
Swakeleys Estate
An outstanding example of Jacobean architecture built in the 1630s. Red brick construction laid in English bond on an H plan. Great Hall includes the 1655 Harrington Screen and 18C marble fireplace panelling.
London Cancer Hub
The London Cancer Hub is Europe’s leading oncology district and a partnership between The London Borough of Sutton, The Institute of Cancer Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, Harris Academy and The GLA.
People’s Museum Somers Town
A great little museum set in the Grade II listed Ossulston Estate - a prime example of pre-war social housing - based on Karl Marz Hof in Vienna.
Argentine Ambassador’s Residence
Known as the 'Independent North Mansion' and christened by Sydney Herbert as 'Belgrave Villa' and then simply 'The Villa' by his successor the 6th Duke of Richmond. Owned by Argentina since 1936 and with sumptuous interiors still intact.
Dorich House Museum
The former studio home of the sculptor Dora Gordine and her husband the Hon. Richard Hare, a scholar of Russian art and literature. 1930s house over four floors including a flat roof terrace and views of Richmond Park.
De Underground Records
London's legendary De Underground Records, shop and studio,
received a heritage plaque for contributions to 'UK hardcore,
jungle and drum & bass music'. An inconspicuous record shop that became the birthplace of jungle music.
Applecart Arts
The Passmore Edwards Library was opened in 1899. In its first year, the library registered over 3000 local bookworms. The building was used as a registry office before sitting dormant. In January 2017, Applecart Arts took over the building, saving it from closure and demolition, now hosting a wide range of artistic disciplines.
Open Havelock
Previously disused garage spaces have been transformed in to community spaces with a play room, toy library, workshop and studio spaces, a kitchen/cafe and multi-purpose room all for rent by local people and businesses.
Peckham Courtyard
Peckham Courtyard is a refurbishment and extension of a Victorian, end of terrace house in Peckham, London. The clients wanted to create a better connection to the sky and garden.
Hoxton Docks
Industrial warehouse complex hosting the annual competition to design and build experimental structures for an evolving series of installations on public display at Columbia and Brunswick Wharf on the Regent’s canal.
The North Wing & Museum, St Bartholomew's 'Barts' Hospital
Founded in 1123 and rebuilt to designs of James Gibbs. The' Grade I listed North Wing at Barts showcases spectacular canvases by William Hogarth & the historic Great Hall.
Walter Segal Self-Build Houses
A close of 13 self-built houses. Each is unique, built using method developed by Walter Segal, who led the project in the 1980s. Houses have been extended and renovated. Sustainable features including solar electric, water & space heating.
Markfield Beam Engine and House
A masterpiece of Victorian engineering, Markfield Beam Engine provided a vital public health facility from 1855-1964.
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
Grade II listed Victorian engine house remodelled to take a pair of 1895 Marshall steam engines, still in working order.