This walking tour of the Bankside/ Southwark area will look at various examples of how buildings have been altered or adapted to suit new uses. Our built environment is evidence of an ongoing process of change and renewal. Much of this is not wholesale demolition and new build, but the updating and adaptation of what is there already. For example former warehouses have become residential flats and we have a major art gallery in what was once a power station.
The tour considers what different scenarios lie behind this process of change and the design creativity that can emerge as a result.

Guide: Noel Wright is an architect and a student on the Golden Key Academy Tour guide course. The theme of this tour reflects his own interest in rework and repair of things, and the relevance of this in our environmentally aware age.

This tour is led by a participant of Open City’s Golden Key Academy – a new course training up insightful and engaging guides dedicated to explaining London and bringing its many stories to life. It is part of a wider collection of tour events created by Golden Key Academy guides for Open House Festival celebrating their conclusion of the sixth month course.

This tour will be conducted using live audio and image sharing from your guide via Zoom who will be with you in person for the duration of the tour. The use of Zoom is to enable you to keep safe, space out and still be able to hear the tour.

Attendees must download Zoom before the tour, bring a fully charged smart phone with internet connection, and headphones; and remember to stay at least two metres apart from each other where required. Zoom joining info will be sent out to bookers a day or so before the tour.

All walking tours 20 max. Pre book only.