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Water Tower, Tonkin Liu, External © Dennis Pedersen. Courtesy RIBA.
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Alexandra Road Estate, Camden, London © Eric Firley, RIBA Collections. Courtesy RIBA.
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Archway Studios © Undercurrent Architects 1. Courtesy RIBA.
Exhibition
coming soon
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds
11 Oct 2024 – 29 Mar 2025
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 66 Portland Place
- London
- W1B 1AD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Great Portland Street / Oxford Circus / Regent's Park
Delve into over twenty complex, unusual, and dynamic builds from across the UK from the 1900s to today.
About
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds explores some remarkable feats of architectural achievement in the face of tricky and uncompromising sites and locations across Britain. Featuring works by some of history’s most renowned architects, including Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Neave Brown, and Lord Norman Foster, alongside leading contemporary practices such as Tonkin Liu, KnoxBhavan, and Carmody Groarke, this free exhibition showcases a spectrum of complex, unusual, and dynamic builds undertaken from 1900 to now.
Spanning private homes, cultural sites, commercial centres, housing estates, and more, Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds looks at over 20 buildings that made unique use of design, layout, materials, and processes as a direct response to site constraints and limitations. Distributed across three thematic sections – Difficult Landscapes, Difficult Urban Spaces, and Difficult Reworkings – the projects present an eye-opening and inspiring study into how resilient and creative practitioners realised the seemingly inconceivable. Through models, drawings, photography, and plans, visitors will get insight into how these creative visions were brought into being against the odds.
