Going to Open House London this year?
Make the most of the capital’s largest annual festival of architecture and design with this official, offline searchable and chart-topping guide series. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to explore over 700+ participating buildings, including London’s iconic buildings like “The Gherkin” and “ The Foreign & Commonwealth Office” that are normally closed to the public.
▶ POPULAR GUIDE SERIES
Top 3 Travel App from 2011-2015
▶ WHAT OPEN-HOUSE GOERS SAID ABOUT APP SERIES
“Loads of information and good maps with nice links between them. Makes navigating the Open House weekend spectacularly easier.” - Tom999:)
“It’s a great app - really useful.” - LAGribble
“An invaluable tool for anyone in Open House and I recommend all to purchase it, as well as being a great way to donate to a very worthwhile charity” - Clw1972
“Great nearby me feature. And great to be able to filter e.g. only search contemporary buildings” - Gherkin003
▶ BUILD YOUR ITINERARY
Plan your Open House weekend with the popular My Itinerary feature. Each listing is accompanied with transport information such as nearest Tube, Rail or Buses. And if you don’t know where to start (there are over 730 listings after all!), we have a specially curated set of “Picks” for inspirations.
▶ NO WI-FI OR 3G NEEDED
See listing information and your itinerary even when you have poor signals or traveling on the underground. Once the initial guide information is downloaded (during first installation), internet is not needed for the App to work. And if you do have internet, you’ll be to see building photos as well as map information.
▶ GET BEHIND THE SCENE
Want to see more than just what the buildings look like? Want to hear from the architects their design philosophy behind some of London’s most iconic features? Many listings provide guided tours and some even taken by the architects who designed the buildings! Just make sure you are there early as most tours has limited spaces.
▶ FULLY SEARCHABLE LISTING (YES, OFFLINE!)
Want to see buildings from your favourite architects? Fascinated by buildings from particular historic period? Just want to see buildings near you? Or only buildings that are open on Saturday? You can do all this with the ever present search button. Best of all, you won’t need internet to do this (after initial download), so you can easily change plans while stuck on the underground!
▶ GET FREE LISTING UPDATES
Don’t get caught out with listing changes. The App automatically checks for changes to listing information so you are always up-to-date.
▶ SUPPORT OPEN HOUSE
Proceeds from the App goes directly in supporting Open City and the development of the App series.
▶ ABOUT OPEN HOUSE
Open House London is a simple but powerful concept: hundreds of great buildings of all types and periods opened up their doors to all, completely for FREE. It is a truly city-wide celebration of the buildings, places and neighbourhoods where we live, work and play, and a quarter of a million people take the opportunity to get out and get under the skin of Londons amazing architecture.
The dates for 2016 are 17 & 18 September.