Exhibition
Making It Happen: New Community Architecture exhіbіtіon
30 Jan 2019 – 27 Apr 2019
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 08:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 08:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 08:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 08:00 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 08:00 – 17:30
Address
- 66 Portland Place
- London
- W1B 1AD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Great Portland Street / Oxford Circus / Regent's Park
What does community architecture look like? Making It Happen is an immersive exhibition celebrating the coming together of communities and architects to craft and create spaces that work for all.
About
How are architects working with communities to improve local buildings and places during times of economic and political austerity? Four immersive installations, representing recent projects from around the UK, fill the Architecture Gallery at 66 Portland Place to offer inspiring examples of architects and local communities working together.
In recent years many public buildings in Britain have faced an uncertain future as a result of budget cuts or the withdrawal of funding. In response, communities have come together to keep public buildings open and functioning, campaigning and fundraising in the face of closure or catastrophe. Making It Happen: New Community Architecture features four recent projects that offer ideas for the re-design of existing spaces and methodologies to build new ones:
* Hastings Pier by dRMM Architects
* Coniston Institute by Grizedale Arts + Hayatsu Architects
* Old Manor Park Library by APPARATA
* The Lookout by Processcraft
The exhibition, designed by Hayatsu Architects, presents a series of immersive installations that reflect the materiality and spatial qualities of each project, with displays that demonstrate the roles that the four practices took on, working as designers, contractors, makers, cheerleaders and activists.
Opening times
Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm
Tuesday: 10am to 8pm
Sunday: Closed
Category: Arts | Visual Arts | Galleries / Art.
