Liquid Architecture Walks 2020 Season
Liquid Arch Walk - Bloomsbury
Fri, May 01
Bloomsbury Square
May 01, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London, UK
Literary and Crown: Home to artists, Bohemians and scholars and the architecture, built and green spaces, provide a fitting background. Started at the “edge of” the 17th century city, with aristocratic mansions, later to expand north with its beautiful leafy squares.
Liquid Arch Walk - Bloomsbury
Sun, May 03
Bloomsbury Square
May 03, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London, UK
Literary and Crown: Home to artists, Bohemians and scholars and the architecture, built and green spaces, provide a fitting background. Started at the “edge of” the 17th century city, with aristocratic mansions, later to expand north with its beautiful leafy squares.
Liquid Arch Walk - City of London, Rise of Modernity
Fri, May 15
Blackfriars station
May 15, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Blackfriars station, Blackfriars station, London, UK
Following the devastation of WW2 the City of London looked to the future. It embraced modernism and looked to reinvent the public realm inspired by similar works in Europe and the US. Modernism and brutalism took charge to be later abandoned transforming into the City scape with now well know.
Liquid Arch Walk - Hampstead Garden Suburb the "Garden City" (1)
Sun, May 24
South Square
May 24, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
South Square, South Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11, UK
Conceived as a retreat from the onset of the urban sprawl in the early 20th-century, this deliberately well-hidden corner of north London is undeniably a village in both feel and look – and that, indeed, was one of the founding principles of the place, designed and executed to a model way of living
Liquid Arch Walk - Victoria: Mansions of Modernity
Fri, Jun 12
St James The Less Church
Jun 12, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
St James The Less Church, 4 Moreton St, Pimlico, London SW1V 2QF, UK
Dominated by the nearby Westminster for centuries it existed on the fringe of royal London. It began to take shape in Victorian times and became the hub of modernity, a subject close to Queen Victoria’s heart. What is actually considered “Victoria” might just surprise you.
Liquid Arch Walk - East London
Sun, Jun 28
Old Street
Jun 28, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Old Street, London EC1Y 1BE, UK
A rapidly changing district and being for centuries the “clearing house” of the city, this urban area has bared witness to the ever changing shocks and struggles of the capital. The hip and funky character it is today, grew from the ruins of what used to be refugees and political turbulence.
Liquid Arch Walk - King's Cross
Fri, Jul 10
King's Cross Square
Jul 10, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
King's Cross Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4DE, UK
“The site is a perfect mix of grittiness and shininess, simultaneously a symbol of London’s industrial and engineering past and its creative present” - Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times. A fascinating journey through 20 years of planning and development at the heart of London.
Liquid Arch Walk - Hampstead Garden Suburb the "Garden City"
Fri, Jul 17
South Square
Jul 17, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
South Square, South Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11, UK
Conceived as a retreat from the onset of the urban sprawl in the early 20th-century, this deliberately well-hidden corner of north London is undeniably a village in both feel and look – and that, indeed, was one of the founding principles of the place, designed and executed to a model way of living