What’s On This Weekend: Open House London, Michel Legrand Remembered & London Design Festival

Open House in London

Open House London is the world’s largest architecture festival, giving free public access to over 800 buildings, walks, talks and tours over one weekend. You can expect to have a nosey around private homes, libraries, museums, schools and even City Hall. This year, Open House also falls on the same weekend as Car Free Day where 20 kilometres of London will be closed to cars, focussing on areas around Tower Bridge, London Bridge and the City of London, so make sure to plan ahead. Only a short journey from our Westminster office and are interested in looking at properties to rent or properties to buy in the area, feel free to drop in and say hello to our team who would be happy to help.

New Form Follows Function Exhibition on Strand

This weekend, Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO will be hosting a special global exhibitions at Somerset House for the very first time. Entitled: The Art and Science of LifeWear: New Form Follows Function, this large-scale immersive event will showcase LifeWear from three different perspectives including Art, Science and Craftsmanship in London. Featuring a series of engaging installations across themed ones, UNIQLO will demonstrate their constant innovation, quality, value and sustainanbility during London Fashion Week.

London Design Festival in Southwark

London Design Festival was conceived by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver an unmissable celebration of design. In this 17th edition of the festival, you can expect to see it shine a bold, new light on the city of London. This festival has been the platform where new stars are made and established ones are celebrated.

On Edge Exhibition in London Bridge

This week sees the opening of the latest series and exhibition at Science Gallery. On Edge: Living In An Age of Anxiety, will explore creative and positive responses to our anxious times. We will have all experienced anxiety to some extent during our lives and this exhibition will consider different personal experiences of anxiety, how the world around us can cause worry or stress, and our evolutionary impulse to be on edge. Drawing on cutting-edge mental health research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at Kings College London, the season reflects the perspectives of artists, scientists, young people and patients. Not too far from our London Bridge office, drop in and say hello to our team if you’re interested in looking at properties to rent or properties to buy in the area.

Michel Legrand Remembered on Southbank

Three-time Oscar and five-time Grammy Award winner Michel Legrand’s unique ear for a memorable tune and his towering skills as a jazz pianist and composer are honoured in powerful arrangements of some of his greatest hits, including ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’, ‘Ray Blues’, ‘Summer of ‘42’ and the ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’. With James Peason at the helm, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra and special guests will be paying tribute to the era-defining composer at an evening of jazz and cinema classics. Alison Moyet, Maria Friedman and Richard Hadfield are just a few of the names who will be accompanying the orchestra for this special event. Only a short bus ride from our Kennington office, drop in if you’re keen to find out more about properties to rent or properties to buy in the area.

Elmer’s Big Art Parade in Elephant & Castle

Community groups in and around London’s Elephant Park have created a special art trail for Elmer’s 30th birthday. Together with professional artists they have designed 10 Elmer sculptures which will be on display until 27th October and can be found around the streets and green spaces of Elephant Park. Based on the much-loved patchwork elephant created by David McKee, these sculptures celebrate Elephant & Castle and its people. The developer Landlease has commissioned Wild in Art to create a community at programme for its regeneration project. Groups including local residents and schools, Southwark pensioners centre, a collective of young artists with autism, Southwark Playhouse and Spanish-speaking mums.

If you’re interested in finding out more about future events in Westminster, London, Kennington and the surrounding areas, feel free to drop by any of our offices – we’ll be glad to provide you with a list. We can arrange viewings of properties for sale and properties for rent within walking distance of some of these popular venues.

Photo Credit: Sarah Howe, Consider Falling, 2018.