Open House London 2012
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September
Get into great architecture for free:
This city-wide celebration of the buildings, places and neighbourhoods where we live, work and play, shows off the value of good design in creating and sustaining our attractive and vibrant city.
Every year, Haringey joins this unique opportunity to get inside what makes London great and encourages you to be inspired by the power of architecture to transform the quality of our lives. Open House offers buildings of all kinds with their doors open to you absolutely free.
With many buildings open in the borough it was worth planning the weekend in advance. Every year a copy of the Open House London Guide will be available to pick up from any Haringey library or from Bruce Castle Museum during late August.
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13 Kingsley Place
N6 5EA
A new pavilion three bedroom house in Highgate conservation area, Features include natural materials, a fully glazed and opening courtyard and an elevated rear deck looking across London. Shortlisted for RIBA Award and Haringey Design Award. Zuber Architecture website (external link).
32 Warwick Gardens
N4 1JG
Remodelling, rear extension and loft conversion of a mid-terraced house that maximises light and space to create a modern family living environment that fully integrates the indoors and outdoors whilst maintaining its period façade. A2studio 2009.
43 Park Avenue North
N8 7RS
Remodelling of Victorian mid-terrace house opening up space on ground floor to adapt to modern family living. Features bespoke timber joinery kitchen with custom-made concrete floor tiles, modern bay window and palette of materials inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright interiors. A2studio 2012.
72 Lancaster Road
N4 4PT
Remodelling and extension to ground floor garden flat within a Victorian mid-terrace house on a tight budget to create a light-filled open living area. An exposed brick wall, Mexican tiles and bright wall colours complement the client’s artwork. A2Studio 2012.
Bruce Castle Museum
Lordship Lane N17 8NU
Tudor Manor House built for Sir William Compton in 1514, substantially altered in 17C and 18C. A museum since 1906 housing local history and exhibitions of Bruce Castle.
Medieval All Hallows Church (2 mins from museum)
The Priory, Church Lane, N17 7AA
Environment Centre at Lordship Recreational Grounds
Middle of Lordship Recreation Ground N17 7QX
Lordship Rec Community festival running. Passivhaus, strawbale and timber-frame construction with raised floor on timber piles. Part of regeneration of Lordship Recreation Ground. Clay boards and unfired clay blocks. Green roof. Anne Thorne Architects 2012.
Heartlands High School
Station Road, Wood Green N22 7ST
The architects helped to crystalise Haringey’s ideas for this 'Better School for the Future' by establishing a number of themes which fed into the development of the design, including distinct learning clusters, the central forum area and sustainability. TP Bennett 2009.
Hale Village
Tottenham Hale, N17
New high-density waterside development with green design features including bio mass, green roofs. includes residential for sale and rent, student accommodation and range of community facilities.
Highpoint One
Highpoint One, North Hill N6 4BA
Grade I listed Modernist apartment blocks retaining many original features such as concertina windows and metal doors. Lubetkin and Tecton 1935/1938.
Markfield Beam Engine and House
Markfield Road N15 4RB
Display panels on development of sanitation in Victorian times and later and its affect on improving public health, particularly in densely populated urban areas. Grade II listed Victorian industrial building (1886) set within a park and next to the River Lee, with the original Wood Bros beam pumping engine in situ, as originally installed. Recently restored Engine and Engine House.
Mayfield Road
19 Mayfield Road N8 9LL
This project aims to open up the kitchen to the garden and create a seamless transition with minimum impact to enable increased use of the garden and bring natural daylight into the domestic space. Luis Trevino 2012. Entry: rear extension, kitchen, garden.
About LB Haringey
Haringey Council works to preserve the historic buildings in the borough and encourage good modern design, to help create a high-quality environment. The Haringey Design Awards, celebrate high quality buildings and places that make a positive contribution to Haringey’s built environment. 'Haringey Design Panel', is an independent advisory body that provides design advice on key development proposals to both applicants and officers. 'Planning and Design Development Forums' for all major development proposals. Key guidance on greening buildings, "Greening Your Home Guide". The forthcoming publication of Haringey’s "Sustainable Design and Construction Guide".
Neighbourhood Walks and Tours
Tower Gardens Garden Suburb
One of the first garden suburbs in the world, with two-storey terraced cottages retaining many decorative architectural features. The LCC created a 'housing of the working classes' role for the architects' department under Riley, a brother of the Art Workers guild. W E Riley 1910-24.
Muswell Hill Walk
The tour took in early and late Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s buildings, and gave an historical interpretation of how a rural enclave changed into a unique Edwardian suburb. Organised by Hornsey Historical Society.
Tottenham Green Conservation Area
External historical guided tour around the buildings of Tottenham Green including 18C Georgian houses, 19C Jewish Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and Holy Trinity Church, ancient High Cross Monument, old Swan pub, Edwardian Town Hall complex, housing developments, Bernie Grant Arts Centre and Banksy mural.
Regeneration in Haringey
Haringey is strategically located in the London Stanstead growth corridor with links to the City, Airport and West End. It is well-placed for business and commuting. Haringey Heartlands and Tottenham Hale are both identified as key growth locations in the London Plan.
This is a unique and great opportunity for Haringey to exploit its own assets, since it is estimated that these sites could generate over 900 new jobs and 8,000 new homes.
At present, 28% of Haringey residents live in areas that are amongst the 10% most deprived in the country. 90% of these deprived areas in Haringey are in Tottenham.
The regeneration plan for Haringey has three main priorities; People, Places and Prosperity, to be achieved by ambitious flagship schemes:
- By creating new attractive sites for business investment, new employment opportunities will arise. The borough will become somewhere more striking to live. These initiatives are to be underpinned by an emphasis on sustainability, diversity and quality
- Through the major waterside development at Tottenham Hale, delivering a new town centre, focusing on residents and the overall quality of life
- By ensuring that settled neighbourhoods in Haringey are integrated with new developments and opportunities; the emphasis on community and social regeneration, designed to transform the quality of life for all residents
- In conjunction with this it is the council's priority to secure Wood Green as the heart of the North London economy. By developing the Haringey Heartlands east and west sites it should, with Wood Green’s existing sites, create a central urban point
- By aiming to ensure job growth in key locations, the council hopes to attract investment for improvements to transport and its infrastructure
