📢 If you have recently engaged with Open City's tours, printed tours or podcast we are keen to hear your views. Our online survey take less than four minutes to complete - and you will only need to fill out the sections relevant to you ✍️ open-city.org.uk/blog/2025sur...

📢In this month's edition of InterCities podcast Owen Hatherley is joined by the academic Dr Yair Wallach to discuss his 2020 book: A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem' with a focus on ephemera and urban text during the British Mandate 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2pHF...

📢 This week's The Brief podcast features guest Billy Reading with host Sahiba Chadha discussing housing targets, St Pancras' upgrade, Central YMCA and Norman Foster's 90th 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

📢Our latest edition of InterCities podcast focusses on Kharkiv -- featuring architect and author Ievgeniia Gubkina in conversation with Owen Hatherley 🎧🎙️🏙️ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

📢 our latest The Brief podcast is a special on location recording inside Geology of Britannic Repair: the British Pavillion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with co-curator Stella Mutegi. Available for early listening now 🎧✨ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

📢 this month's InterCities podcast focusses on Energoprojekt and the transformation of postwar Belgrade featuring guest author Dubravka Sekulić with host Owen Hatherley. Listen 2pm today on Resonance FM 🎧 www.resonancefm.com

🎧"These buildings were ahead of their times" 😢 Vickie Hayward joins me on this week's The Brief podcast to discuss @c20society.bsky.social's latest Risk List of architectural heritage facing demolition, plus AI concerns, agroforestry and community housing... 🏘️ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

“They’re fun, inventive…they were ahead of their time in terms of their purpose. These are concepts we’d want to see now!” Vickie Hayward speaks to @merlinfulcher.bsky.social about Millennium buildings on the #C20RiskList, for The Brief by @opencity-uk.bsky.social shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social R discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

Fascinating to visit the restored Space House for @c20society.bsky.social's top 10 buildings at risk of demolition lauch. In awe of the views AND C20's tireless campaigning for amazing architectural heritage, now embracing some 1990s gems 🙏🌿🌻

A great evening at the @c20society.bsky.social Risk List launch, held in Seifert’s fabulous Space House. Reuse them or lose them! 💥

A smarter use of public funds? 💸🏘️ 'It would cost £205bn to eliminate the social housing waiting list... and there would be savings to the [£15.6bn annual] housing benefit bill' Peter George on the true cost of fixing the UK's broken housing system shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

Great to see the narrative around office-to-resi conversions turning around for the better. The most sustainable buildings are always the ones already standing 🙏🌿✨

📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Peter George of Ealing Council with AJ's Fran Williams discussing office-to-resi conversions and the challenges of delivering zero carbon affordable homes. You can listen on our channel and at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧 www.resonancefm.com

📢 Our second edition of InterCities podcast with Owen Hatherley features Johny Pitts discussing the social and architectural transformation of Sheffield since the 1990s 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Robin Nicholson of Cullinan Studio with host Fran Williams discussing Norman Foster's new Man Utd stadium plus planning reform and more. On Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️ www.resonancefm.com

Such a marvellous addition to the wonderful architecture of Oxford. Well done David Kohn Architects and New College 🙏✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ci...

📢 This March we are celebrating our 50th edition of Open City's Pocket printed tour series with a journey through the towering, highly speculative redevelopment of Nine Elms! Highlights include Kieran Timberlake's US Embassy and the newly restored Battersea Power Station...🏙️💸

Announcing our 50th Pocket Printed tour exploring the speculative regeneration of Nine Elms, authored by our series editor @merlinfulcher.bsky.social ! Launched in 2021, our monthly self-guided tours focus on London’s most compelling neighbourhoods. Shop here: shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...

Had a lot of fun at the London Festival of Model Railways 2025 in Ally Pally! My favourite layouts were Two Bridges, Furness and Copenhagen Fields 🌿✨

Very fun to explore Basildon with the marvellous @cyhsal.bsky.social and @c20society.bsky.social today... Highlights by Anthony Davies, ABK, Richard Rogers and William Mitchell 🙏🌿✨

📢 This month's Deconstructed podcast explores the Charles Henry Driver-designed Crossness Pumping Station with special guest Petra Cox and host Matthew Lloyd Roberts. On Resonance 104.4FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️ www.resonancefm.com

Event showcasing brilliant emerging research in twentieth-century heritage: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx..., the first public event put on by @c20society.bsky.social's new youth group. Come along!

Wow... celebrating (by re-imagining) 25 years of the Millennium Dome? ✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/foster-...

Winner of the 2025 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture, the ethos of ‘unusually discreet starchitect’ Anne Lacaton is both frugal and generous, writes Justinien Tribillon. Read Lacaton’s full Reputations:

This is going to be AMAZING 🌇✨

📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features London Centric editor Jim Waterson with host Sahiba Chadha talking Criterion Capital, Lime bikes, Aylesham Centre Peckham and Anne Lacaton. Tune in at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com

📢 Introducing InterCities – Owen Hatherley's new podcast for Open City travelling through time and space to a series of buildings, spaces and historical moments across London, Britain, and the world. First ep: Greenwich with Ana Francisco Sutherland 🎧https://shows.acast.com/opencity

Thankfully not much visible sign of River Wandle's disastrous diesel oil spill downstream between Earlsfield and Colliers Wood today... Even saw two mallards bathing! 🌿🦆

📢 This week's The Brief features @opencity-uk.bsky.social CEO Manijeh Verghese discussing New Towns, Grenfell, SANAA and the Aga Khan. You can listen on our podcast channel AND at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️

📢 Our latest Deconstructed podcast sees @matthewlloydr.bsky.social joined by George Saumarez Smith to discuss St Anne's Limehouse designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. You can listen in all the usual places and also today at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com

'It doesn't need any alteration when the song is so complete' hear Jon Wright on why Deny's Lasdun's Milton Gate is so worthy of protection. Airing on Resonance 104.4 FM now player.resonancefm.com

📢 big news!! Our latest edition of The Brief podcast featuring guest pundit Jon Wright will be featuring on Resonance 104.4FM TODAY from 2pm!! Tune in to hear fresh insights on the latest Barbican, Milton Gate and Prince Charles Cinema news 🎙️🎧

Absolutely banging aurora borealis ✨🌿

This week we are announcing a major refresh of the Open City Podcast with a new line up of shows and hosts – covering news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.

Social housing is the most sustainable form of housing and superior to home ownership in many ways. Hopefully one day it is available to everyone who aspires to have one 🙏🌿✨

This is fascinating and fun in equal measure! A great opportunity to rethink the past 12 months in design terms 🌃✨

The latest edition of the annual Antepavilion commission returns to its original home at Hoxton Docks following a successful planning battle with Hackney Council ✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

So AI is what is going to deliver the promised economic growth? What about more housing... not much mention of that today but last year it was part of the narrative 🤔

My social media advisor says spend more time outdoors and share the rewards ✨🌿

Live from South London 🌿✨ www.youtube.com/live/op0n9LG...

Great show this week! Tune in to hear some really great insights on London cycling infrastructure improvements upcoming in 2025 🌃🚲🎧

This week's edition of The Brief podcast features journalist Jon Stone discussing how poor housing harms the economy, doubling St Pancras International capacity, fire-risk at the Palace of Westminster and how 2025 will be a bumper year for London cycling shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

Did you know that with regular donations you'll have access to special events with Open City? Our 2025 Open City Friends programme has just been released, with tours of St. Paul's, Pitzhanger Manor, the Citigen Energy Centre, and more. Join now: open-city.org.uk/friends

@waitey.bsky.social & Will Hurst pick out architectural documentary gems, some of the very best from the archive, all of which still deserve a watch in a spare moment this Christmas. 😍

Live in Second Life Saturday 04 January 2025 Here's our Saturday night show live from Aquila in Second Life. Like our music? You can buy downloads from our site on Bandcamp. #alazarinmobius #theinvisibleband #interplanetaryliberationfront #progressiverock #spacerock #secondlife #cubase #livestream…

20 years ago the top ten global companies by value were energy and automotive, now they are all technology -- which are conveniently great customers for the former, and a great source of distraction 🤔😅

On a little quest tracking down postwar housing designed by Battersea Borough Architects Department... This is the 1951 Stephen Sanders Court on Bolingbroke Grove, named after a socialist former MP 🌿✨

My podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour seems to have fed out now to the various places you can listen. You know, if that's your sort of thing.

Absolutely stunning day for a cycle along the River Wandle from Earlsfield to Morden -- such a magical blue-green route carving through what still is quite an industrial landscape in parts 🚴🌿✨