Open House London 2011
"The Liveable City"
17 - 18 September 2011
The capital’s greatest architectural showcase celebrated its 20th birthday.
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 is worth planning the weekend in advance. Every year you can pick up a copy of the Open House London Guide from any Haringey library or from Bruce Castle Museum during late August.
As the world looks to London as the next Olympic city, we have been looking outwards: strengthening our links with the ever-expanding Open House 'family' of urban architecture showcases around the globe, from Chicago to Tel-Aviv. Melbourne, Helsinki and Slovenia are the latest to join the growing movement born here in London."
|back to topWhat was Open in Haringey?
32 Warwick Gardens
N4 1JG
Remodelling and extension of a mid-terraced house. A design that maximises light and space to create a modern, family living environment that fully integrates the indoors and outdoors whilst maintaining its period facade. By A2 Studio Architects 2009.
Bruce Castle Museum
Lordship Lane, Tottenham, N17 8NU
Tudor Manor House built for Sir William Compton in 1514, substantially altered in 17th and 18th centuries. A museum since 1906 Bruce Castle houses permanent displays of local history, and temporary exhibitions.
NB: The Medieval All Hallows Church was also open on the Sunday 2pm - 5pm
Highgate School Chapel and Big School
North Road, N6 4AY
The School Chapel and ‘Big School’ are of great architectural and historical significance to the centre of Highgate Village. By F P Cockerell 1865/7.
Hornsey Library
Haringey Park, N8 9JA
Open galleried Grade II listed with internal courtyard. Engraved window by F Mitchell showing Hornsey architecture. Bronze sculpture by Huxley-Jones set in fountain outside.
By Ley and Jarvis 1965.
Linear House
70 Southwood Lane,
Highgate N6 5DY
A modern insertion into the old fabric of Highgate Village, this single storey house is both cut into and integrated with its steeply sloping site. Although sleek in design and material, the building takes its reference from the classical in its symmetry,proportion and drama. Sustainable features. RIBA Downland Sustainability Award Winner 2008.
By Clague 2006.
Markfield Beam Engine and Engine House
Markfield Road, N15 4RB
Grade II listed Victorian industrial building (1886), set within a park and next to the River Lea, with the original Wood Bros beam pumping engine in situ, as originally installed. Recently restored Engine and Engine House.
Muswell Hill Odeon
Fortis Green Road
Muswell Hill, N10 3HP
Grade II listed Art Deco cinema, converted to three screens in 1974 but retaining its fine original decor.
By George Coles 1936.
Priory Yurt
82 Priory Gardens
Highgate, N6 5QS
(access via side drive to garden)
A dome-shaped nomadic structure, which adapts well to our climate and life-styles. An architectural archetype.
The Old Schoolhouse
Hornsey Historical Society
136 Tottenham Lane, N8 7EL
Early Victorian infant school, closed in 1930, and after conversion reopened in 1981 as the HQ of Hornsey Historical Society.
By John Henry Taylor 1848 Victorian school, local architects including John Farrer
Television Studio A at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY.
One of the few grand 19th century leisure buildings to survive to the present day, this Grade II listed building houses the BBC studios where television was first broadcast, and a theatre.
By John Johnson 1875.
Tower and Churchyard of St Mary’s Hornsey
Hornsey High Street, N8 7QB.
Tours of churchyard, new planting and significant tombs. Grade II listed tower with restored chapel remaining from medieval parish church. Excellent views from top of tower. Organised by the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower.
|back to topNeighbourhood Walks and Tours
Alexandra Palace Park Walk
270 acres of parkland designed by Alexander Mackenzie - the landscape architect of Embankment Gardens. Refurbishment funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Best practice in re-use of materials. Alexander Mackenzie 1870/Land use consultants 2009.
Cycle Tour: London's Other River - a Lea Valley Miscellany
The River Lea or Lee is the Thames sleazy East End cousin, now being smartened up to serve as the backdrop to the 2012 Olympic Games. Tour takes in architectural oddment, from Victorian cultic temples to 21st century designer shanty towns.
Muswell Hill Walk
Tour takes in early and late Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s buildings, and gives an historical interpretation of how a rural enclave changed into a unique Edwardian suburb. Finishes at North Bank House. (Organised by Hornsey Historical Society (external link) )
Tottenham Green Conservation Area
External historical guided tour around the buildings of Tottenham Green including 18C Georgian houses, 19th century Jewish Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and Holy Trinity Church, ancient High Cross Monument, old Swan pub, Edwardian Town Hall complex, recent housing developments, new Bernie Grant Arts Centre and a recent Banksy mural.
Tower Gardens Garden Suburb
Information pick up point: 5 Tower Gardens Road, N17 7PX
One of the first garden suburbs in the world, with 2-storey terraced cottages retaining many decorative architectural features. The LCC created a ‘housing of the working classes’ under Riley, a brother of the Art Workers guild.(NB. Quiz about estate also available).
By W E Riley 1910-24.
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 8000 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.
