Po-mo in the City of London walking tour - Saturday 22 March 2025 10am
Regular price £19.50
Join Open City for a walking tour discovering some of the foremost Post-War and Postmodern buildings within the Square Mile.
This insightful walking tour from Broadgate to Bank — led by acclaimed architectural historian Jon Wright — chronicles how the stark and sometimes heroic forces of 1960s modernism were superseded by a more contextual architecture in the 1970s before the hi-tech and postmodern (po-mo) styles took over as the de-facto forces in commercial architecture in the 1980s and 90s.
Buildings featured on the tour – such as Exchange House by SOM, Arup Associates’ Broadgate Circle, and Milton Gate by Sir Denys Lasdun & Partners – chart that shift and give glimpses of the architectural richness and fluidity that continue to define the City today.
The City of London, one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing urban centres anywhere in the world contains buildings from the middle ages to now. Constantly morphing and adapting, the City is the ultimate place to see the big forces of architectural history side-by-side.
This tour which will examine the success of these buildings to date while also looking ahead to what the future for the City of London might hold.
Key Information
Meet: Steps outside Exchange House at 12 Primrose St EC2A 2HS (the 2nd stop on this tour is Broadgate Circle)
Duration: 2.45 hours approx
End: at No1 Poultry/Bank
Jon Wright works for Purcell Architects as a Twentieth Century Heritage Consultant, specialising in the history and conservation of modern buildings. He believes it's a fascinating area as many of the principles for how we look after these buildings are not yet fully formed.
He is a former caseworker for the Twentieth Century Society, where he fought to get many buildings of the period listed and now works with architects to help look after them. Jon Joined the Open City team in 2017.
Please select solidarity pricing if you feel you can help our charity to offer reduced concessionary tickets to others who require them.
We aim to be inclusive and accessible where possible, please contact Adrianna at tours@open-city.org.uk to discuss your accessibility needs, reduced ticket prices and if you require a free carer ticket.
Tickets are non-refundable and tours go ahead rain or shine.
* Please check for any planned transport engineering works, planned strike action or large scale events that may affect your journey before making your ticket purchase *
If you find you can no longer make the tour for any reason including Covid we are unable to transfer you to another date, but please feel free to pass your booked place onto a friend to go and enjoy the tour in your place.
In the event your tour date is cancelled you will be issued with a credit note (with no expiry date) that you can use to
- book onto a rescheduled date
- book onto any other tour from our programme
or you can request a refund.
All ticket purchases are in support of the work of our organisation including our pioneering education programmes. We really appreciate your support!
Get in touch with Adrianna at tours@open-city.org.uk with any queries.
