This walk focuses on industry, creativity and change in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, exploring how regeneration and gentrification have transformed the area.

Repurposed out of a disused sausage factory, Grow was converted into a grassroots venue, community hub, bar and kitchen. This canalside venue is part of an ecosystem of artist studios & small independent businesses & working yard.

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Mother X is a diverse group of artists, makers & creators that have inhabited a former Victorian chocolate factory in Hackney Wick for 15+ years. Come visit this unique building & see it's people & their work during the Open House Festival.

On Saturday 9th September, from 12 noon to 5pm, Arbeit will be opening Trowbridge Gardens to the public, with access to gardens and creative workspaces, and a free to attend exhibition and workshops.

London’s 2012 Games provided a catalyst for regeneration in the Lower Lea Valley. Guided by the Legacy Masterplan, thousands of new homes and jobs are now being created, stitching together existing communities across the former floodplain.

Allies and Morrison with Aecom, 2012

See behind the scenes of working studios that are not usually open to the public. Discover work by some of the UK’s top artists, from internationally acclaimed names to new and emerging talent.

See behind the scenes of working studios that are not usually open to the public. Discover work by some of the UK’s top artists, from internationally acclaimed names to new and emerging talent.

This a new self-build house by two architect friends, Anthony Engi Meacock and Alexander Hills, on a narrow infill site within a late Victorian terrace.

Alexander Hills Architects and Anthony Engi Meacock, 2021

As part of Open House 2023, Bikeworks would like to invite the public to visit to their new inclusive cycling centre of excellence and accredited training centre located opposite the Velodrome on the the Olympic Park in Stratford.

Foster Kirk Architects, 2022