AIA UK hosts a wide range of social and professional events throughout the year - from talks, building tours, bike tours, pub quizzes, conferences, and technical lectures, to movie nights, networking events, city excursions, and student programmes. We also run a series of annual Signature Events: the AIA UK/ RIBA Keynote Lecture featuring a leading progressive contemporary architect; our prestigious Excellence in Design Awards celebrating the best of contemporary architecture in the UK; our renowned one-day all-manual London Student Charrette for Part 1 students from all over the UK; the Noel Hill Student Research Award funding Part 2 students to undertake innovative architectural research; and our ever popular Summer Gala for a party at a significant central London location. Everyone is welcome to attend all events.
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AIA UK Building Tour
The AIA UK Chapter cordially invites you to the next in our ongoing series of building tours:
81-87 Weston Street, London By Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Client: Solidspace
Post-Tour Discussion to follow.
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris recently completed the Weston Street residential project located in the heart of Bermondsey, south London. The buildings’ stepped massing is a response to the differing neighbourhood scales, while the brickwork façade and metal windows reference the warehouse aesthetic of the city. The product of a close collaboration between AHMM and developer Solidspace, the scheme provides eight split level apartments and an open-plan office space to the ground floor. The apartments’ open-plan arrangement of living, kitchen and study space across three levels creates a complex play of interlocking units. Amenity space is provided by large cantilevered balconies and roof terraces. The project was awarded the WAF Future Project Residential 2016
Meeting Point: Guy Street Park (SE1 3SH) just south of the project.
1.5 CES Credit (minimum) is available and places are limited.
Tickets are £3 / £5 for members/non-members, and all proceeds benefit the Noel Hill Travel Bursary.
For more information about the project, click here.
AIA UK Building Tour - The Alphabeta Building by Studio RHE
The AIA UK Chapter cordially invites you to the next in our ongoing series of building tours:
The Alphabeta Building by Studio RHE
Where: 14-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1BR
Tube: Moorgate, Old Street
Meet: Central atrium reception area
Dickon Hayward of Studio RHE will give a tour of the project’s key spaces, followed by drinks and darts at Flight Club Darts located in the building’s northwest corner.
2 CES credits are available and admission is free of charge.
Places are limited, RSVP HERE
The Alphabeta Building is a new creative workspace which transforms three historic buildings on Finsbury Square. Located between the creative hub of Shoreditch and London’s financial district, the project creates flexible space for a new breed of modern and creative media companies.
Spaces are arranged around a nine-storey shared atrium with areas for flexible and informal meeting. A communal roof terrace with views over London provides additional space for informal gathering and events. At ground level an open route connects the external street life at Finsbury Square with a new entrance at Worship Street featuring a ‘ride-in’ cycle ramp, cycle parking and changing facilities. The ground level is further activated by by restaurants, clubs and galleries.
More information on the project here
AIA UK Building Tour - Ironmonger Row Baths
The AIA UK Chapter cordially invites you to the next in our ongoing series of building tours:
Ironmonger Row Baths
by Tim Ronalds Architects
Tim Ronalds will give a short introduction to the project, followed by a general building tour and discussion.
Meeting Point: Outside main entrance
2 CES Credits are available and admission is free of charge.
Places are very limited. Please RSVP online by clicking here.
Ironmonger Row Baths was built in 1931, designed by Alfred Cross PRIBA, a distinguished architect who specialised in public baths. In 1938, Cross’s son Kenneth added two swimming pools to the side, with a small Turkish baths in the basement. It was listed Grade II in 2006.
Tim Ronalds Architects design repositions the entrance to the Baths to face St Luke’s Gardens. This allows the building to be made accessible and exploits the lightwell spaces between the 1931 and 1938 buildings to make a new coherent circulation.
The building was made to feel lighter, more transparent and more welcoming, but has a new, durable, civic quality that will withstand another fifty years of public use. The project was technically extremely complex and achieved BREEAM Excellent standard.
The building has received several awards:
- RIBA National Award for Architecture
- RIBA London Award for Architecture
- AJ Retrofit Award
- Civic Trust Award Winner
AIA UK Building & Brewery Tour - The White Building
The White Building and Brewery Tour
David Kohn (DKA) will give a short introduction to the project followed by a tour of the arts facilities and events spaces.
Following that, James Kellow (Crate Brewery) will give a tour of the Crate Brewery facilities, including a tasting session of their current creations.
Participants are invited to stay following the tour to enjoy further Crate’s fine craft beer and artisan pizzas (cost not included in the tour).
2 CES Credits are available.
Admission is £5 for AIA members and £10 for Non-members.
Places are very limited. Please RSVP by clicking here.