About

Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the pioneering contemporary architecture of Design District and Greenwich Peninsula.

Led by expert guide Maggie Baddeley, this insightful and engaging tour will visit iconic developments across an historic 60-hectare post-industrial, riverside site - the Peninsula is the focus of an ambitious, mixed use and 30-year phased regeneration masterplan (Allies and Morrison).

Starting and finishing at Design District, the walk will follow a circular route around the new waterfront neighbourhood which will soon be home to more than 35,000 people.

Key highlights include the O2 (RSHP Architects), The Tide and other public art projects along the Olympian Way (part of the Thames Path), Ravensbourne University (Foreign Office Architects) and Design District (individual buildings designed by HNNA, 6a, Adam Khan Architects, Architecture 00, Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn Architects, Mole Architects, Schulze+Grassov, SelgasCano) – plus the landmark NOW Gallery by Marks Barfield Architects. The tour includes new homes designed by Pilbrow and Partners and other notable architects, and the historic Pilot Pub and Hotel together with the Grade II-listed Georgian workers' cottages next door at River Way.

Meet the Tour Guide
Maggie Baddeley is a freelance town planner and chartered surveyor. She is a Public Practice Alum, previously working with Luton BC and the GLA as a principal planning officer in their policy teams. She is co-chair of the Greater Cambridge Design Review Panel and joint vice-chair of the Essex Quality Review Panel. While a planning director at Lichfields she was involved as a planning consultant in Kings Cross for Argent and for the Guardian.