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Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Dennis Severs’ Tour
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Dennis Severs’ Tour, 6pm – 8pm, £80.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR LATEST UPDATES ON CHRISTMAS TICKETS Explore the house without speaking and absorb the atmosphere of rooms lit solely by candles. 18 Folgate Street is famous for the powerful quality of its silence, broken only by ticking clocks and crackling fires. When there is no chatter, you grow more aware of the fragrances here – perfume, woodsmoke, cloves and tobacco. Compounded by the intense visual detail, this visit is guaranteed to awaken all the senses.
How can research and lived experience help us design spaces that better support family life, community and connection? Join TiggColl for a lunchtime talk exploring how research, storytelling and human behaviour can inform the design of meaningful spaces. The talk takes its starting point from It Takes a Village, a thesis by TiggColl student Charisse Kwong, developed through UCL’s MSc programme. The research explores the evolving role of community and shared childcare in a post-pandemic world, examining the experiences of working parents and the networks of support that surround family life. How can these insights move from research into design? TiggColl is currently exploring related questions through its work designing family social clubs — spaces that bring families together and seek to create new opportunities for shared experiences, support and social interaction. Drawing on work-in-progress projects alongside examples of narrative-led design, Manuel Gonzalez Nogueira will explore how research, context and real-life experiences can become part of the design process: informing the stories designers tell about a place, the concepts they develop and ultimately the spaces they create. The talk will consider how a narrative-led approach can help designers look beyond programme and function to understand how people might experience, inhabit and connect through a space. Expect a visually led discussion moving from academic research to live projects, and exploring how listening closely to the ways people live can lead to more thoughtful and socially connected places. Speaker Manuel Gonzalez Nogueira Associate Director, TiggColl Manuel combines technical expertise with a creative design philosophy rooted in storytelling. Since joining TiggColl in 2015, he has contributed to projects spanning student accommodation, co-living, private homes and large-scale housing, leading the design of community family clubs and contributing to competitions, including the award-winning House for Theo and Oskar. He qualified at the European University of Madrid (UEM) and completed his MArch with Distinction and Part III at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Previously, he worked with Estudio Álvarez-Sala and Andrés Perea in Spain, focusing on sustainable and Zero Energy design. He has also taught at UEM, collaborated with TU Delft and FADU Buenos Aires, and been a guest critic at the Bartlett and the Architectural Association in London. About the Building Centre's Lunchtime Talks Our Lunchtime Talks bring together people working across architecture, design and the built environment to share ideas, explore new approaches and encourage discussion. Free to attend. Booking recommended. Have an idea for a talk? We're always looking for fresh perspectives and interesting projects to share with our audiences. Find out how to propose your own Lunchtime Talk through our open call.
Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR LATEST UPDATES ON CHRISTMAS TICKETS Explore the house without speaking and absorb the atmosphere of rooms lit solely by candles. 18 Folgate Street is famous for the powerful quality of its silence, broken only by ticking clocks and crackling fires. When there is no chatter, you grow more aware of the fragrances here – perfume, woodsmoke, cloves and tobacco. Compounded by the intense visual detail, this visit is guaranteed to awaken all the senses.
Building Centre Film Club: 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
The Building Centre
The space immediately outside the Building Centre is set to become the home of London’s permanent AIDS Memorial. One week before World AIDS Day, Building Centre Film Club presents Robin Campillo’s acclaimed 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), bringing together film, lived experience and the continuing work of remembrance. Set in Paris in the early 1990s, the film follows members of Act Up-Paris as they fight public indifference and demand action from governments and pharmaceutical companies. Moving between meetings, demonstrations, friendship, desire, illness and loss, 120 BPM is a powerful portrait of activism and the communities that emerge when institutions fail to act. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the film moves between the collective and the deeply personal, capturing both the urgency of political organising and the lives lived alongside it. Before the film, we’ll hear from Christophe Martet, a longtime AIDS activist, journalist and author who joined Act Up-Paris in 1990. Christophe is now president of Vers Paris sans sida, the city’s Fast-Track Cities programme working towards ending AIDS in Paris. He is the author of Les Combattants du Sida, about AIDS activists in France, and co-director of the documentary Nous Sommes Éternels, which explores the history of the AIDS Quilt in France. Christophe has been living with HIV since 1984. We will also be joined by Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt. Andria is a long-standing activist and an original member of ACT UP London, with decades of experience campaigning around HIV/AIDS, drug policy and the rights of marginalised communities. She continues to be involved in political and environmental activism and sits on AIDS Memory UK’s Affected Communities Advisory Board, helping shape the forthcoming AIDS Memorial in London. AIDS Memory UK is creating The AIDS Memorial in London, which will be located on South Crescent immediately outside the Building Centre, creating a new public space for remembrance, gathering and reflection. Taking place exactly one week before World AIDS Day on 1 December, the evening brings together film, activism and memory, asking how histories of collective action are remembered and how they continue to shape our cities and public spaces today. Free popcorn will be available for everyone attending the screening. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) Dir. Robin Campillo, 2017 France | 140 mins
BDP Clerkenwell, 16 Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ · Twentieth Century Society
Architecture historian Emma Gilleece will take us on a tour of modern Irish architecture. We'll travel across Ireland’s early- to mid-twentieth‑century modernist landmarks – buildings that broke from tradition and imagined a different future. From civic centres and factories to churches, housing and schools, these structures tell a story of ambition, progress and new ways of living. Emma will showcase Ireland looking outward, embracing international modernism while forging its own architectural voice. Her new book This Modern Love - Architectural Gems of 20th Century Ireland is published by New Island Books and released in the UK this December. This Modern Love is clear‑eyed, visually driven and unapologetic. The book invites you to rediscover a built heritage that is still shaping Irish life today. It's based on the popular RTÉ Culture’s 100 Buildings series. Emma Gilleece is an architectural historian, specialising in early to mid-twentieth-century Ireland, which she writes about for RTÉ Culture. She grew up in the suburbs of Limerick City and today lives in north inner city Dublin. Laura Mark is Head of Casework at the C20 Society. She is an award-winning architecture critic, curator, editor and researcher. Laura worked in architectural practice before joining the editorial team of the Architects’ Journal. The book will be available for purchase at the event. Part of new C20’s globe trotting series looking at modern architecture and heritage protection around the world. We have already talked about Japan, while Poland is booked in October and Germany is scheduled for Spring. The ticket price includes a glass of wine and a contribution to our casework and campaigns.
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Silent Night
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
Grounding Practice: Access Capacity with Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
Somerset House, Snooker Rooms, New Wing
Curator and writer Iarlaith Ní Fheorais shares tangible approaches to how access can shape artistic practice, collaboration and sustainability. What can artists learn from access methodologies? Curator and writer Iarlaith Ní Fheorais draws on her experience working with artists and developing the Access Toolkit for Art Workers to share practical approaches to building access into practice, from planning and budgeting to collaborating with support workers, building teams and support structures. Rather than treating access as something added to a project at the end, the session will consider what happens when access and support become part of an ongoing practice. We’ll consider how some of these approaches might be useful to artists more broadly, regardless of their career stage or artistic discipline, or whether access is a specific concern within their work. Through case studies from previous projects, Iarlaith will reveal how these approaches have worked in practice, including what was involved, what worked well and what she might do differently. The session will also offer practical guidance around how to resource access costs. Leaving artists who attend with practical ideas they can apply to their own ways of working, as well as a broader understanding of how access can shape artistic practice, collaboration and sustainability. Image credit: Bridget O'Gorman, Support | Work, 2023, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2023. Photographer: Ros Kavanagh.
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Silent Night
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
21st Century Architecture: GALLERIES with Peter St John (Caruso St John) and Oliver Ulmer (David Chipperfield)
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ · Twentieth Century Society
Learn more about some of the best 21st-century architecture from the people who made it happen. We’ve paired leading architects and academics for themed lectures where they will present their work, before sitting down to discuss their individual approaches to similar projects. A lucky few British cities were blessed with the arrival of brand new art galleries – bringing first class architecture and boosting the local economy. We’ll hear from two architects who delivered a bunch of them. Peter St John, co-founder of Caruso St John, will present the sublime Nottingham Contemporary (2009), the winner of EU Mies van der Rohe Award. Peter will also talk about New Art Gallery Walsall (2000), the Stirling Prize finalist. Oliver Ulmer, Director at David Chipperfield, will talk about the fantastic Turner Contemporary (2011) in Margate and the brilliant Hepworth Wakefield (2011) in West Yorkshire – both galleries won RIBA National Awards. The event is chaired by Priya Khanchandani – curator, writer, broadcaster and former trustee of the Hepworth Wakefield. Peter St John oversees the two offices of Caruso St John in London and Zurich together with Adam Caruso. He leads projects of all scales – from large urban developments and cultural projects, to intricate interventions in complex historic settings. Peter has taught architecture throughout his career and is a Professor of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, and the University of Bath. Oliver Ulmer joined David Chipperfield Architects in 1998 and has almost 30 years of professional experience working on a wide range of projects in the United Kingdom and Europe. Oliver has led numerous projects for the practice, including One Kensington Gardens, One Pancras Square and The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery. The series coincides with the new C20 book 100 21st Century Buildings (2026, Batsfords). To book an online ticket for this lecture, click here. Buy the whole lecture series and save. The ticket price includes a glass of wine and a contribution to our casework and campaigns. Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Silent Night
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
ALBERTOPOLIS – Architecture + Enlightenment Through South Kensington
London Architecture Diary · via London Architecture Diary
Home to the V&A, Science and Natural History museums, the Imperial College, the Royal Colleges of Art, Organists, Music and the Institute Of Navigation, Albertopolis in South Kensington is London’s original knowledge quarter. Made possible through the profits of The Great Exhibition of 1851 this epic city of learning was the brainchild of Prince Albert - Queen Victoria’s Consort - and over 30 years 87 acres of sloping West London fields were spectacularly brought to life in the pursuit and promotion of science, art and industry. Charting high Victorian hopes, this walking tour explores the making of Albertopolis through its greatest architecture and biggest ideas. A walk by The London Ambler - Mike Althorpe
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Silent Night
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit and Christmas Dennis Severs’ Tour
Dennis Severs' House
Christmas Relaxed Day Visit, 12pm – 3:15pm, £18.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). Christmas Dennis Severs’ Tour, 6pm – 8pm, £80.00 (+ £1.50 booking fee). This is more informal than our Silent Visits, with talking allowed, yet still allows you to weave your way through the house and revel in its lavish decoration. Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.
Christmas Silent Night, 5pm – 8:15pm, £25 (+ £1.50 booking fee). JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR LATEST UPDATES ON CHRISTMAS TICKETS Explore the house without speaking and absorb the atmosphere of rooms lit solely by candles. 18 Folgate Street is famous for the powerful quality of its silence, broken only by ticking clocks and crackling fires. When there is no chatter, you grow more aware of the fragrances here – perfume, woodsmoke, cloves and tobacco. Compounded by the intense visual detail, this visit is guaranteed to awaken all the senses.
