This week's picks for London architecture and design events

Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan | Until Sunday

This week is your last chance to catch the House of Illustration's exhibition on the architecture behind the most successful anime creations. Over 100 illustrations and technical drawings will be on show, giving an insight into the work required to form the backgrounds and the atmosphere for this distinctive style of film. 

Walking Tour: Hampstead Garden Suburb | 9 September

Suburban plans and developments have been critiqued, studied, and reworked since their initial iterations. The utopian ideal of these communities, including the Garden City Movement, has created a lot of the suburban landscape we see today. This walk will look at one of the best loved garden suburbs in Hampstead, from its rich history and listed buildings, to its current inhabitants and future plans.

Architecture Tour: White Collar Factory | 11 September

The White Collar Factory, located on Silicon Roundabout, the 'Tech City' centre of London. The walk around the 'visionary' building will be lead by none other that the architect Simon Allford of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris , as he explains the ethos of the building, and how adapting warehouses from the 19th Century for current needs is an effective form of future proofing. The £76m building was completed in 2016, and is a response to a five-year research project for Derwent London, an innovative specialist property regenerator. 

EUROPA - Connecting Ideas Across Borders | 6 September

‘Europe is a market that trades in ideas as well as materials. It is based on the premise that we can profit from each other, not only in fiscal but in social and intellectual terms.’ - Sir David Chipperfield

There are still tickets to attend a conversation between Sir David Chipperfield and Marcus Fairs, as they discuss the future of creativity across boarders as a launch event for the talk series EUROPA - Connecting Ideas Across Boarders.

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