MARGARET HOWELL X OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2013
2013-09-19Margaret Howell continues to support Open-City, the architectural education charity founded by Victoria Thornton to raise awareness and appreciation of the urban landscape. Open-City actively promotes public engagement and education programmes, encouraging a dialogue about the built environment and urban regeneration projects. Established in 1992, the charity offered the public access to private and public buildings of architectural merit over a single weekend in September, many of the buildings were open to the public for the first time. The initiative was known as Open House Weekend, launched in London and now a global annual event across twenty cities including New York, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Perth, Barcelona, Rome and Helsinki.
Margaret Howell has sponsored Open House London Weekend since 2003, supporting a number of buildings from the post war modernist movement designed by architects Margaret Howell personally admires, buildings have included The Royal Festival Hall, Swiss Cottage Library, Balfron Tower and Span Housing.
For this year’s Open House London Weekend (21 – 22 September) Margaret is supporting Battersea Power Station and encouraging the public to visit the building before the site is handed over to developers at the end of September.
Margaret has produced a series of postcards showing a selection of her favourite Open House buildings, the postcards will be available at Battersea Power Station and other key venues over the weekend. The postcards preview the creative concept for the Margaret Howell 2014 calendar, in which Margaret selects twelve buildings she has personally supported or visited since Open House London Weekend started in 1992. The calendar will be available in October and sold to support the work of Open-City, with all profits from the sale of each calendar being donated to the charity.
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