Architectural Dialogue uses professionally trained and qualified architects in order to give you access to London's architecture.

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  Architectural Dialogue provides tours lead by architects who tell you about London's architecture from an inside viewpoint. Our emphasis is principally upon contemporary architecture, but also upon historical buildings as a living aspect of London life. Your guide to this subject is our enthusiasm for it.
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  We cater for groups from one person to a large coach-load in size and can tailor itineraries to a group's specific interests. Most of our tours and visits are organised for professional groups on study visits to London, but we also provide for those who are simply enthusiastic or have special interests. We also offer standard half-day and full-day tours. Use the email link to make an enquiry.
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  London's architecture has to be experienced as a living aspect of metropolitan life, its urban geography and the changing character of its city life. Experiencing this architecture is about getting out onto the pavements and moving around the many and disparate areas that make up the metropolis. Whether you are looking in the central areas or going out to suburban parts of London, AD is familiar with what is going on and how the city has been changing. This means we can make sense of a building in its cultural context rather than as an isolated object. Our core enthusiasm is architecture, pure and simple. We are keen that visitors can appreciate what it is that London has to offer and you will sometimes find our guides acting as pavement artists in order to explain things that mute buildings can't say for themselves – that is a part of AD’s uniqueness: our guides are professionals or architectural historians who can tell you about London’s architecture from the inside.
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  Ken Allinson is one of our principal guides, His ‘Guide to London's Contemporary Architecture’ was published by Elsevier in the summer of 2009. It gives a comprehensive coverage of all there is to see that is new and interesting on London's streets. The book can be purchased from Amazon, many good bookshops such as the Tate Modern and the RIBA, and from London Open House (who receive a charitable contribution). The book is map-based and is well illustrated. Click on the image to open up more information on the book.
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  In late 2008 Elsevier published Ken Allinson's ‘Architects and Architecture of London’ – a book rich in illustrations and information about notable architects from Inigo Jones to Richard Rogers, and what extant works can be found on London's streets. This well-illustrated book can be purchased from Amazon, many good bookshops such as the Tate Modern and the RIBA, and from London Open House (who receive a charitable contribution). Click on the image to open up more information on the book.
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  Three of our principal guides are architects and one is an Honoury Fellow of the the RIBA. • Ken Allinson worked for a number of practices such as John Winter, Wolf Olins, Milton Keynes Development Corporation, YRM, and Farrell Grimshaw (Associate Partner to Terry Farrell), then Associate Partner at DEGW before setting up on his own and combining this with studio teaching at Oxford Brookes and Greenwich Universities. He is the author of four books, the ‘Contemporary Guide to London’ and 'Architects and Architecture of London'. • Tom Westwood has lived in London all his life and has been leading guided tours for Open City ever since he moved to the East End a decade ago. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were architects. He has worked in the profession for 15 years and continues to be excited by London’s evolving regeneration. • Benedict O’Looney runs his own architecture studio in south London, working on new build and conservation projects. Since obtaining his MA from Yale University, Benedict worked with Grimshaw and Alsop Architects, where an interest in new architecture in historic settings was developed. He taught architecture history and sketching for 10 years at the Architectural Association, at the Kent School of Architecture, the Canterbury School of Architecture, and for New York University’s London program. He is Chairman of Southwark’s Conservation Areas Advisory Group, on the Victorian Society’s Southern Building Committee and a past President of the London Sketch Club. • Victoria Thornton founded Architectural Dialogue and London Open Open House (in 1992). She formerly was the Director of the Architecture Centre at the RIBA, has served on numerous committees and boards concerning architecture and has recently extended LOH into Open City.
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  Of course groups often enjoy lunches and dinners together at restaurants that provide a suitable ambience. This has particularly been the case with international groups such as this one brought to London by the Bene furniture group, for whom AD have organised many London tours. On the other hand, many groups simply want to keep on the streets and have quick lunch and coffee stops as they go along. For those who are interested in setting evening events (restaurants, theatre, etc.) we simply recommend that you use the TimeOut London web site to see what is going on – click on the image to be taken to their home page.
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  There is no single best way to get around London and AD will seek to match your itinerary to your budget and preferences. Whether we walk, go by Underground, by taxi, car, or coach is up to you. We are happy to arrange this for a group and regularly use the same travel operators.

Experiencing London ...

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  London's urban order is simple, layered and easy to understand once it is pointed out. However, on the surface it can appear as disorderly as it is unique. Most visitors never get beyond the West End of palaces, shops, theatres and galleries. But there is more to London. This content is not 'hidden' except in the sense that, as in any metropolis, its places and spaces are a mix of the public, the private and the privileged. In searching out quality architecture AD seeks to also disclose this other London to you.
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  You will have to search hard to find anything much of medieval London and this building at Chancery Lane (an area of lawyers, on the edge of the City) is as close as one can get to the character of London buildings at the time that Inigo Jones – patronised by Charles I – introduced his radical, neo-Palladian and 'regular' style of European architecture to what was then a city of about 200,000 (1600) and growing to 350,000 (1650). Most of these people lived in or around the old Roman walls, in what is now the City of London. This kind of ‘half-timbered’ construction characterised the whole of London and its suburbs, even as Jones designed the Banqueting House in Whitehall that was intended to be the first part of a grand palace. Since the context of the latter has utterly changed, it is difficult to realise how radical it once was.
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  St Bart's is one of London's delights – and again a rare example of architecture from the Middle Ages. Its fabric was constructed between 1123 and 1543, when half of it was demolished by Henry VIII. What we see now is the remaining parts as restored around 1900 as a fascinating mix of architectural styles and perhaps the most romantic architectural edifice in the capital.
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  There are only five surviving London buildings designed by Inigo Jones (1573-1652): the Queen's house, the Banqueting House, the Queen Mary Chapel, Lindsey House and St Paul's in Covent Garden. In some ways the latter is the most intriguing because it is distinctly peculiar and theatrical, embodying characteristic features of Jones' favoured style. The organisation of the church makes little sense outside of its conceptual place as the religious house of a new community being speculatively established here, in Covent Garden where, in order to gain the King's permission, the local land-owner had Jones foisted upon him as architect. The developer asked for consideration: only a barn-like building was required. Then, said Jones, you shall have the finest barn in England. It was completed in 1633 and represented the changing face of what was to become the West End, as people moved away from the crowding of the City toward areas nearer to the royal district of Westminster.
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  Wren’s St Paul's Cathedral was first used in 1697 and officially completed by 1710 – just after England and Scotland were joined together by the Act of Union of 1707 and a period began when this small island became the heart of the world's largest empire. Ironically, St Paul's – which remained London's tallest building until 1962 – was already in a style ill-suited to the temperament of this new era and one has to look to churches such as St Martins-in-the-Fields in order to savour the spirit of something more refined that was to typify a period characterised by the so-called Rule of Taste. However, during the early years of the C17th, during which neo-Palladianism emerged, London saw the construction of five notable Baroque works by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a man who had been one of Wren's right-hand assistants. Two of these – Christchurch and St George's, Bloomsbury – have been restored. The most idiosyncratic – St Mary Woolnoth – sits quietly among the notable grouping of buildings at Bank, in the City.
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  Perhaps the building that exemplifies the neo-Palladian style of the early period of the 1700s is Lord Burlington's Chiswick Villa, in west London. But the building that perhaps best characterises the splendour of the era is located on the River Thames, just by Waterloo Bridge: Somerset House, designed by Sir William Chambers (1722-96) and completed as London's first major public building in 1796. Both Burlington and Chambers established their architectural careers by undertaking 'grand tours' to Italy. However, while Burlington was an amateur and patron, Chambers was among the fathers of today's architectural profession, standing among others such as Nash, the Adam brothers and Soane. The government building he here designed is now better known for its art galleries and the fountains of its central court. But peer over at the riverside and imagination the river lapping at the building's walls, as it once did, enabling boats to enter into existing large arches and service the building from below – exactly the same principle that is still employed on many new developments, such as at Canary Wharf. The architecture of the courtyard itself is really as many London squares were intended: a unified architecture of separate town houses, each with its own front door to different departments (including The Salt Office, The Stamp Office, The Tax Office, The Navy Office, The Navy Victualling Office, The Public Lottery Office, The Hawkers and Pedlar Office, The Hackney Coach Office, The Surveyor General of the Crown Lands Office, The Auditors of the Imprest Office, The Pipe Office, The Office of the Dutchy of Lancaster, The Office of the Dutchy of Cornwall, The Office of Ordinance, The King's Bargemaster's House, The King's Bargehouses).
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  London has no grand urban schemes that compare with the likes of Paris, but it does possess one quite amazing speculative work from between about 1812-30 that is quite marvellous – carving a 'royal mile' from the Mall to the royal park that lay much to the north, alongside the Regent's Canal that wound its way from the East End docks to west London and the north of England. Between these two focal points lies what is now Regent Street and Portland Place. Most of the original architecture has gone, but the terraces designed by John Nash (1752-1835) at Regent's Park remain. Originally, the park was to be filled with grand villas. It didn't happen, but five recent neo-Classical villas designed by Quinlan Terry now complement Modernism to be found in London Zoo and the splendours of Sir Denys Lasdun's work for the Royal College of Physicians.
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  The Royal Courts of Justice building, by George Street (1824-81), at the union of Fleet street and the Strand, is on the same scale as the Palace of Westminster, and in the spirit of Butterfield's work, but was on a budget that will draw the empathy of contemporray architects suffering such constraints. Like Parliament, the plan is essentially classical and was intended to have a similar degree of picturesque play that Pugin gave to Nash's conception. It didn't happen, but this is still a marvellous building – high security all year, until Open House, when the doors are thrown open. Street, an architect's architect, drew everything himself at amazing speed and, as with Wren, Barry and others, the project was to be a drain upon his very life.
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  Perhaps the major figure in British Architecture just before the First World war – the brightest kid on the block – was Edwin Lutyens. He had made his name doing remarkable, free style country houses but as his fame spread and he received city centre works, he shifted to a neo-Classical style that was labelled 'Wrenaissance'. His output was huge, but perhaps two of the most notable London buildings are a church in the new Hampstead Garden suburb - serviced by the Northen Line Underground line – and a literally memorable work at the heart of Westminster: the Cenotaph memorial to the dead of the War. The church is St Judes - not special on the outside, but revealing the wit of Lutyens on the interior. In contrast, the Cenotaph bears esoteric geometric pretensions that far out-scale the actual physical presence of the work. But there is something about it that has, from its completion in 1919 to today, made it one of the most popular work in the country.
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  Like WWI, WWII changed many social attitudes and resulted in an outburst of optimism that was called the 1951 Festival of Britain. Deliberately Modernist (in a rather Scandinavian manner) the impressive complex has left us only one building: the Royal Festival Hall, refurbished by Allies & Morrison and re-opened in 2008. The complex, of which it is a part, is called the Southbank and is largely a product of the 1960's and exhibiting a different kind of enthusiasm for Brutalist concrete. Adjacent to the complex is the addition to the Hungerford Bridge, and the London Eye – which, together, sum up the last 60 years of London architecture in one location.
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  Architectural work in London of the 1960s and '70s is dominated by social housing and the contrasting work of so-called 'commercial' architects such as Richard Seifert. The outstanding architect of the period is Denys Lasdun, who worked with tecton as a young man and designed the Keeling and Siulkin blocks of social housing (above) in the East End at about the same time that he designed a notable block of private housing just off St James'. (Ironically, Keeling is now private.) Lasdun was also responsible for what remains as one of the most notable buildings of the period: the National Theatre, near to the Royal Festival Hall. However, perhaps his best work is the Royal College of Physicians building in Regents' Park (usually open for London Open House). Other notable architects of this period include Sir Basil Spence, YRM, the Smithsons (especially their Economist Group, near to the Lasdun flats mentioned above), Chamerlin Powell & Bon (the Barbican), Patrick Hodgkinson (the Brunswick centre), Colin St John Wilson (the British Library), Eric Lyons (Span housing in south-east London), Darbourne & Darke (the Lillington Gardens estate, near to the Tate Britain), and Gollins Melvin & Ward (buildings in the City).
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  The later 1980's were a boom period in British architecture – one characterised by the famous Post-Modern / High-Tech debates. The former approach to architecture is best seen in the works of Terry Farrell (such as Alban Gate), but the enthusiast is encouraged to go to the work of one of the fathers of Po-Mo: the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery.
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  The Lloyds '86 building (the date of completion) remains as one of London's most iconic works and a monument to the Po-Mo / Hi-tech struggles of the 1970s and '80s. (The one category defined the other.) There is a rich story to the building and its predecessors, but it may be more interesting that the building has now been complemented by two neighbours designed by the office of Lord Norman Foster: the Willis building and 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin). In turn, the stories behind these recent high buildings are part of changes over the last 25 years, since banking deregulation in the mid-1980s – since when buildings in the City have got taller and taller even while the City has burst its historic boundaries and introverted conventions that characterise most of its history (extrovert with regard to a global vision of making profit; significantly more introverted and conservative with regard to its administrative role in London and protecting its interests. Where these tall buildings are located has much to do with – ‘viewing corridors’ to St Paul’s Cathedral, lending a peculiar contemporary planning relevancy to a building completed over 300 years ago.
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  London now has buildings such as the Gherkin and Broadgate Tower, wit hothers now comig out of the ground such as a building by Nouvel, at St Paul's. – or, on a different keynote changes to the galleries at London's museums, such as the medieval gallery at the V&A. But the works that best capture what is going on belong to housing, education and health. For example, David Adjaye's idea Store in Whitechapel, AHMM's Westminster Academy of dRMM's Wansey Road housing. As always, the overall picture is very mixed – the last thing you will find in London is consistency (except, that is, in its inconstency). But this is what makes it so interesting: architecture that complements a rich ethnic and cultural diversity.

London Slices ...

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  Olympics 2012. With only a short time to go before the 2012 London Olympics begin there is a mounting curiousity. Architectural Dialogue can provide an architect-lead guided tour to those areas from which you can obtain an excellent view of the site. We shall then add to this taking you to other places in the area in order to provide the overall story of some 35 years of East End regeneration which is both the context of the Games and there ostensible raison d'etre in London: a legacy contribution to the area. We can do this tour by public transport or by coach, either as a half-day tour or extending this into a tour adding in other architectural projects in this part of London.
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  Slice One: There are two, twinned historic poles to London: the City of London (the financial district); and the Westminster government area. The City is London is most historic heart and is a marvellous mix of history and modernity, with tall office buildings epitomising the latter and the Wren churches (particularly St Paul’s Cathedral) epitomising the former. Westminster has the government, the civil service, the monarch housed in Buckingham Palace, and Westminster Abbey, founded in the seventh century. Making sense of these two areas – and the inbetween areas – can make a fascinating tour that defines contemporaneity as a mix of old and new, so long as it is a living part of the London metropolis. This tour is a ‘slice’ through these districts, beginning in its governmental heartland and stretching itself through the Holborn area to the outer fringes of the City.
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  Slice Two: The Square Mile. Do not be put off by a description of the City as London’s financial district – a place of many office workers and only about 12,000 inhabitants. In fact, the City is not only London’s historic core, but a ‘square mile’ that is richer in good architecture than any part of London. You can discover its mix of history and modernity in many different ways, but it is especially delightful to be able to wander in and out of the backlands, discovering its contrasts, high-lights and more quiet and hidden corners.
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  Slice Three: Docklands Regeneration. London’s only ‘Londoners’ are its core of working class inhabitants who live in the former East End and areas such as Bermondsey, on the south side of the River Thames. Everyone else just seems to be passing through, even though they may live here all there life. Why this is so is at the heart of a regeneration of east London’s dock areas that has now been going on for some forty years – and will probably take another forty to complete as a transformation of the working basis to London’s wealth. The River Thames was once the life-blood of the city, the basis of its trading wealth, epitomised by its docks and associated warehousing, nearby factories, etc. When the docks closed in 1970 – killed off by that invention of the Vietnam war, containerisation – London was left with a massive social and physical problem strangled by a lack of imagination and daring. How these qualities came into being and are continuing to transform what was once the East End can be discovered by exploring the area’s manifold architectural changes. This tour takes in much of this story by using public transport.
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  Slice Four: The ‘West End’ of London only has meaning in relation to the ‘East End’ and ‘the Square Mile’ (of the City) – an area whose character that is largely the result of aristocratic land speculation from the late C17th and throughout the C18th to the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria in 1836 (just about the time the railways began to force their way deep into London during the remainder of the C19th). If the old historic core was to expand, then what was more logical than to get away from its over-crowded conditions than by moving in the direction of the monarch’s palaces, the court, parliament and the church at Westminster Abbey? In the background was what has been characterised as ‘the rule of taste’, resulting in a homogeneity to the ‘Georgian’ terraces and squares that were the typology of these new West End developments: Lincoln’s Inn, Covent Garden, St James’ Square and the rest – up to the ‘royal mile’ that stretched from the Regent’s Park, down the current regent Street to the Mall. Now, this is not only the district of royalty and government, but of theatre and other entertainments, of museums and galleries. This tour will provide you with a cross-section of what is best, most interesting and informative about the area that most visitors think of as ‘London.’
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  Slice Five: Contrasts. London is a mixed metropolis – architecturally, culturally, ethnically. These two buildings epitomise these contrasts: Foster's 'Gherkin' for City traders, and one of the twelve remaining black cab drivers' shelters, provided charitably at the end of the C19th. This tour will mix the architecture and the culture, offering contrasts that show architecture as a vibrant and vital aspect of London, especially in places on the edges of more known parts of the city.
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  Slice Six: Classics. A tour of London's Modernist classics includes: the Daily Express (Owen Williams); Trellick Tower and Willow Road (Erno Goldfinger); Highpoint and Finsbury Health Centre (Lubetkin & Tecton); the Royal Festival Hall (LCC); the Economist group (Peter & Alsion Smithson); the Royal College of Physicians and the National Theatre (Denys Lasdun); Brunswick Centre (Patrick Hodgkinson); the Media centre at Lords (Future Systems); Lloyds '86 building (Richard Rogers) and the Gherkin (Norman Foster). Click on the image to obtain more detailed information.
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  Slice Seven: Foster + Rogers. Those of you who are keen fans of Norman Foster's work will enjoy this tour – from his studios in Battersea to the Sackler Galleries, the British Museum Great Court, and his work in the city area including More London and the Gherkin, as well as lesser known works such as those near Wood Street and at Tower Hill. The work of Rogers ranges from the recent Maggie centre, the Chiswick Business centre, the Lloyds '86 building and Lloyds Registry of Shipping, 88 Wood Street, 15 Broadwick in Soho, Channel Four, K2 at Tower Bridge, to Terminal Five and other works. Michael and Patty Hopkins have the Mound Stand at Lords cricket ground, the David Mellor building in Butlers Wharf, Bracken House in the City, the Gibbs building for the Wellcome trust, the Inn on the Part (St James) and others. And. of course, it is inevitable that you will see works by many other London architects whilst simply getting from one Foster or Rogers building to another.

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  Architectural Dialogue invites you to London for 2010 ... Now could be the time to make a return visit. We have suggested a variety of standard half-day and full day tours which we're describing as 'slices' through London. But we're also inviting you to see individual buildings and London as a whole together: as a uniquely diversified metropolis – ethnically, culturally and architecturally. But why not experience London in a different way? One of the largest projects London has seen for some time is the Olympics site in East London – now a key part of this area's regeneration. Make a visit to see what is going on – walk the old canal paths, ride the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), get a boat back into central London ... And, if you are making your own about, take the AD Mapguide to the most significant of recent buildings (below).
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  London is getting excited about the Olympic games for 2012 and the construction of its three principal venues: the Stadium, by Populous; the Velodrome, by Hopkins; and the Aquatic stadium, by Hadid. It's all surprisingly close to the heart of London (yellow are, top right). But instead of getting a train to, say Stratford Station, why not experience the Games in conext: the view below was recently taken from a canal path on the edge of the Olympic site, looking back toward the Gherkin, in the City of London. The building frame that peeps just above the trees is the Heron Tower, now the Tallest building in London. Take the walk with A : from a convenient Underground station, along the canal to the Olympic site, a visit to the ViewTube cafe, and then onto the DLR to other areas and a return to central London ... or take the train to somewere you can pick up a boat straight back into central London.
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  It is surprisingly easy to get close to the main Olympic stadium and to walk around the perimeter of much of the Olympic Park, especially along nearby canals that once fed industrial activity in the area. The ViewTube is now open and you can enjoy a simple sandwich and coffee or tea here – or even hire a bike. Bus tours around this amazingly busy site are possible.
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  See architecture a different way. London is not just the West End and the City. Why not come to London simply to walk? Bring your hiking boots, go to http://walklondon.org.uk/walk_finder.asp, and off you go. For example, walk from Camden Lock (where the famous market is)m all the way to the Olympic site. Then continues down to Canary Wharf and Greenwich ... or go off toward Limehouse, on the River Thames ... then take a boat back to the West End. Or have you thought of walking along the banks of the Thames, not just for a few hundred metres, but for kilometre after kilometre? Or why not save a lot of bother and get AD to guide you?
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  Why not make more use of the River Thames? Fast Clippers run regularly between central locations such as the London Eye or the Embankment and, for example, Canary Wharf (about a 30minute journey). Or, for something more exhilerating, you could be booked onto the even faster RIB tour boats: voted as one of the ultimate ways to enjoy London. After one hour roaring up and down the Thames you'll be just in the mood for some relaxing architecture – or perhaps lunch at the Royal Festival Hall. You want more? OK, how about a helicopter flight over central London? Prices start with the public Clipper (£4.80 on an Oyster card), go up for the fast private boat (@£33 per person) and up again for a helicopter – at about £500 for a 4-seater, 1 hour ride (aeroplanes are also available and cheaper). Bookings through AD would carry a handling fee. Prefer a bicycle? There are a number of central London places that will hire you a bike for a maximum of £20 per day (about £25 per weekend) and, from the summer of 2010 there is a London bicycling scheme available (6000 bikes for hire), like the ones in Paris, Barcelona, etc.

Clients and comments

“As a group of architects being taken on an architectural tour of London we were always going to be a rather cynical crowd; however upon returning from their tour my colleagues were in raptures about what a fantastic afternoon they had been given. Ken (Allinson) had entertained them, shown them nooks and crannies of London they had never set foot in before, and their knowledge of the city had been thoroughly tested. This tour delivered exactly what we had hoped for. Many thanks for an absolutely superb afternoon."
TP Bennett LLP

"Once again thank you very much for the tour [...] We have enjoyed it very much. My colleagues and I were very impressed with the way you could in a simple scheme tell us the history of London. Hereby soms pictures of the tour." SAB Amsterdam

AD has had many clients over the years. These include: Aargauer Kinsthaus Aarau, Agence Culturelle pour la Promotion de l'art Contemporain, All In One, AEA, Allies and Morrison, Alukonigstahl, Aker Kværner AS, Aktion, Akershsus Eiendom, Akershus fylkeskommune, ARCASA Arkitekter AS, Architecture Academy of Norway, Archus Arosia Arkitekter, Architekten and Ingenieurverein e.V Koln (AIV, Arkitektene Astrup, Architektur Lokaal, A-tre Arkitektur, Arkitekt Senteret, Architecturmanagement, Arkitektgruppen Heineman, American Institute of Architects, Architecture Academy of Norway, Art Institute of Chicago, Asahi Chemical Company, The Association of Building Physics Denmark, Association Genovoise D'Architects (Alicante), Arhitektenkammer Baden-Wuttenberg, Architekturburo WGK, Associazione Ingegneri e Architetti di Modena, Austin State University, Austrian Trade Mission (London), BASE Arkitekter ANS, Bank of Moscow, Bauforum GMBH, Bauhaus-Univeristat Weimar, Beat Rothen Architektur, Bennett, Berning Schulter Hald, Bond van Nederlandse Architecten, Biesterbos Planontwikkeling bv, British Broadcasting Corporation, British Council, British Steel, BUWOG, Building and Equipment Life Cycle Association of Japan, Bund Deutscher Arkitekten, Camden Arts, Tourism, Carlstedt Arkitektkontor, CAUE de la Drôme, Cellcom, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, Conseil National de Ordres des Architectes Bourgogne, CoreNet Event, City of London festival, Contekton, Contemporary Arts Society, DKA Business Solutions, Department of Trade & Industry, Design Net Works, Designfunktion, Eiffel Construction Metalique, Enerhaugen Arkitektkontor AS, Fondation de L'Architecture et de L'Ingenierie, FFNS, Claudio Forti Architetto, Dutch Ministry of Housing, ENOSH Systems, Fondazione Architetti della provincoa di, Formica Taiwan, Fulton travel Ltd., German Press Group, Global-Link, Greenwich Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Giuliani Architect, HADFAS, Halmstad City Council, Hansgrohe, Heidrick & Struggles, HJS Arkitektkontor AB, Hofbauer Architectsa-Tre, Hahn & Holder Matthias, Hopten, Interface Deutschland GmbH, Interoper, Johnels & Moberg Sodera, Kingshill Media Group (Moscow), KLC School of Interior Design, Immobilien, KOW Architectuur, Kunsthaus Aarau, Kuntsthogskolen I Bergen, LAFRATTA S.r.l., Link-Akitektur, Locum (Stockholm), LPO Architecture &amp, London Ladies Club, LS Arkitekter, Lusparken arkitekter AS, Maison de L'Architecture Drome, Malmo city council, Mirk Architects BNA, Municipality Promotion Association of Hokkaido, Neils Torp Architects, Neumann & Partners, Museum of Modern Art Switzerland, Norske Arkitekters Landisforbund, Nyborg Commune, ØKAWAS Arkitekter MNAL, Odd Slyngstad Sivilarketekter AS, Oslo Planning Department, Orag Osterreichische Realitaten AG, Ordine degli Architetti, Ordres Des Architectes Luxembourg, Osterreichische Realitanten-Arkteigesellschaft, Oxford Brookes University, Queens University Belfast, Parallel Architects, Paumier, PROMOSEM Paris, Ramboll Danmark, db Redaktion, Royal Institute of British Architects, Riverside Business Centre, Rotary Club of Southampton, Royal Institute of Australian Architects, Royal Society of Ulster Architects, SAI (Tokyo), Sandoz, Savvy Club, SBS Copenhagen, Stedebouw & Strasbourg City Council, SCHUCO, Sovereign Tourism Ltd., SCET Network, SERS Ville de Strasbourg, Silja Tillner, Skjern technical College, Sohne GmbH, Institute of Spanish Architects, Steele & Co., Swiss Engineering Corporation, Swiss Institure for Art Research, Suter & Suter, Steelcase Strafor, Tampere Council, Tectum (Antwerp), Tentrup Pflanzen GmbH, Tidee Amsterdam, Neils Torp, Ukranian Architectural Academy, Unisor Sacilor, University of Agder, University of Bonn, University of Michigan, Vaardal-Lunde AS, Venera, Viaggi Piu, Vieler, Viajes Orienta, VM Trade, Vrienden van het Nederlands Architectuurinstitut, Ian Walton Associates, Welsh Opera House Board, WDR, Weickenmeir Kunz & Partners, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, White Arkitekter AB, and many others, including individuals.

"I’d just like to thank you for providing us with such an interesting and informative view of the river; it gave us all a different perspective on how London has developed." Holder Mathias, London

"Everything went really well, Thanks to you!" Kingshill, Moscow

"It was a very good arrangement you made for us last week...So good that I want you to do it again if its possible!" MANL, Norway

"Thank you very much once more for your great support and the interesting tour that you provided together with your colleagues." Hansgrohe, Germany

"Thank you very much for organizing such an interesting visit this morning for Mr [...] and [...]. I know for a fact that they found it very enlightening and a great source of inspiration for their project." Attachée aux Affaires publiques, Délégation générale du Québec à Londres

"My husband and I had the pleasure of having you show us around the contemporary architecture of London [...] It was a wonderful experience." LS, New York City.

"Many thanks for organising the visits yesterday; another very valuable programme for the BBC which led to some terrific discussions." Head of Design, BBC Property.

"After a wonderful weekend in London we would like to thank you and especially many thanks to Ken who did a wonderful guided tour on Sunday." I.G, Museum of contemporary art, Schaffhausen, Switzerland .

"Thank you very much for your assistance in making the trip worthwhile." M.B.M., Niels Torp as Architects MNAL, Norway.

Architectural Dialogue encourages standard half-day and full day tours, with the option of using public transport or travelling by coach. The other option is a bespoke tour that is oriented around your specific requirments. Costs will be similar but reflect the nature of the client's requirements for internal visits, contacts and other special arrangements.
Suggested standard half-day tours without coach (max 25p): £ 490
Suggested standard full-day tours (max. 25p): £ 870
Standard half-day with coach (max.25p): £ 715
Standard full-day with coach (max 25p): £ 1277
Bespoke tours: please email us at the address below.
For further information, inquiries and quotations please contact: lrobinson@architecturaldialogue.co.uk