Buildings Guide
The Buildings Guide booklet is your essential accompaniment to the Open House London Annual Event. It is available from mid-August each year but you can place your order at any time.
Admission is FREE to all buildings. There will be over 600 from which to choose. Along with a brief description and the name of the architect, each building's entry gives its address, opening days and hours, access to disabled visitors, pre-booking details where relevant, amenities and available transport. There are talks, often given by architects, architectural historians and engineers and also walks over the weekend.
Where can I obtain a Buildings Guide?
Buy online
Order by credit card on our secure link to WorldPay and your guide will be posted first class. Price £4.00 including first-class p&p.
Order a Guide
Buy a Guide in person
Copies of the guide can be bought in person only from several bookshops in the run up to the even, including Tate bookshops, The Building Centre, RIBA Bookshop, Britain and London Visitor Centre.
Buy a Guide by post
If you prefer to order by post, please Send a cheque for £3.00 (payable to London Open House) and a self-addressed A4 envelope with 65p in stamps on it to Open House, 297 Euston Road, London NW1 3AQ. PLEASE NOTE: this address is for the purposes of postal orders only. If you wish to buy a guide in person please see above.
Subscribe to the Architecture Bulletin and get your Guide free!
Subscribe to Open House's monthly Bulletin of architectural events in London and get your annual Buildings Guide free. A subscription (£16.50 a year) includes ten issues plus the Buildings Guide as soon as it’is available). You can subscribe online.
Subscribe and obtain a Guide
Get a Pdf format Guide online
You will also be able to buy online once the listings are live online and receive the Buildings Guide in pdf format for £3.00. The reason for the charge is that it is, in effect, a digital version of the entire 72 page guide, and it helps cover our project costs. You’will need Adobe Acrobat on your computer. (There is also a smaller, Word file available.) Keep checking our shop page for availability
Order a Pdf format Guide
Copies can also be picked up free in participating borough libraries, subject to availability.