What's On

Historic pools are undergoing restoration and architects are designing inventive new places to swim. This display explores the architectural, cultural and social history of indoor and outdoor swimming baths and pools in the United Kingdom.

RIBA North, The Building Centre and RIBA Chartered Practice dRMM present Forest of Fabrication, an exhibition celebrating the possibilities and significance of modern timber architecture.

Join us each month for a friendly creative workshop, where you’ll explore architecture and make art using a different medium. For retirees or those aged 50 and over. Free, no booking required.

This workshop is an introduction to the approach to business applied by the best business coaches in the world. It has led to success for a vast range of businesses, and covers the key areas that will ensure a solid business model for the future.

This February half term, join us for this creative architecture workshop for young people aged 15 to 18. Over three days, you will use a variety of media as architect Chee-Kit from Mobile Studio will challenge you to undertake a series of creative practical activities.

Yasmeen Lari will talk about her humanitarian work building zero-carbon structures with communities in disaster prone areas of Pakistan, in what she calls "anti-architecture".

This February half term, join us for a creative architecture workshop for children aged 11 to 15. Over two days, look at how art can makeover our streets, and turn inconspicuous architecture into a dazzling work of street art that serves its local community. Using different techniques such as paste ups and mural painting, you will then be given a specific site to design, and work together to create your own artistic interventions for an imagined community that brings life to local architecture.

The Architects Underground marks a new dawn for 66 Portland Place - a truly iconic address to host this magazine event. A whirlwind of inspirational minds live under one roof, with voices from architecture, design, art, movies, music, fashion, TV, theatre and robotics.

This February half term, join us for this creative architecture workshop for young people aged 15 to 18. Through architectural techniques such as drawing and collage, you will learn to present your own ideas on how to redesign and repurpose an existing architectural site to make it fit for 21st century needs.

In this workshop, architects will be introduced to the Active Building concept. Through taking part in a short design exercise and feedback discussions, participants will help inform the development of the new Active Building design guide, developed by the speaker of the session.