Join us to preview RIBA's latest exhibition, Hill Station: architecture and the altitudes of Empire, and uncover how the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, was shaped by health, architecture and empire.
RIBA's new exhibition at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool explores the architectural history of colonial-era health segregation in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and its entanglements with the expansion of the British Empire and the emergence of tropical medicine.
Combining architectural model work and film, this new installation by Killian O’Dochartaigh and Edward Lawrenson — part of a wider research project Salone Drift — explores architecture, colonialism, and health segregation, and the complex links between the two port cities, Liverpool and Freetown.
Join us for the preview on Wednesday 3 September.
Exhibition continues until Sunday 16 November 2025.
Hill Station: architecture and the altitudes of Empire is supported by:
