Design District walking tour - Saturday 1 November 2025 10.30am
Regular price £19.50Led by expert guide Maggie Baddeley, this insightful and engaging tour will visit iconic developments across an historic 60-hectare post-industrial, riverside site - the Peninsula is the focus of an ambitious, mixed use and 30-year phased regeneration masterplan (Allies and Morrison).
Starting with the North Greenwich interchange and The Line (art walk) - and including Design District and Ralph Erskine's earlier Greenwich Millennium Village - the walk will follow a circular route along the new waterfront and through new neighbourhoods that will soon be home to more than 35,000 people.
Key highlights include the O2 (RSHP Architects), The Tide and the other public art projects along the Olympian Way (part of the Thames Path), Ravensbourne University (Foreign Office Architects) and Design District with individual buildings designed by HNNA, 6a, Adam Khan Architects, Architecture 00, Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn Architects, Mole Architects – plus the landmark former NOW Gallery and its neighbouring pavilion by Marks Barfield Architects. The tour includes new homes designed by Pilbrow and Partners and other notable architects, and the historic Pilot Pub and Hotel together with the Grade II-listed Georgian workers' cottages next door at River Way.
Key information
Meet: Just inside the North Greenwich underground station (Jubilee line), at the main exit for the O2. The 2nd stop on this tour is inside the main entrance to the 02. on Olympian Way, to the south west of the Dome.
End: At North Greenwich underground station
Duration: 2.5 hours approx
Distance: 3 miles approx
Maggie Baddeley is a freelance town planner and chartered surveyor. She is a Public Practice Alum, previously working with Luton BC and the GLA as a principal planning officer in their policy teams. She is co-chair of the Greater Cambridge Design Review Panel and joint vice-chair of the Essex Quality Review Panel. While a planning director at Lichfields she was involved as a planning consultant in Kings Cross for Argent and for the Guardian.
Maggie joined the Open City tours team in 2012.
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