FREE ARCHITECTURE WALK – V&A EAST, QE PARK, OLYMPIC VELODROME, COLLAGE OF FASHIO

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & URBANISM WALK TALKS, SOCIALS - LONDON
FREE ARCHITECTURE WALK – V&A EAST, QE PARK, OLYMPIC VELODROME, COLLAGE OF FASHION, AQUATICS CENTRE, STADIUM, ORBITAL
Hello,
Architecture is all around us, we all talk about and usually have very strong views.
Would you like to join our event to view London Architecture, walk in the newest London Park, talk, walk, experience, question, architecture?
Air your views with others, including architects and designers.
Or just enjoy the landscape and architectural environment.
Thursday 18 September 2025 - 2:00 PM & Saturday 20 September 2025 - 2:00 PM
We will meet at Hackney Wick Station Exit
(Mildmay line of the London Overground – the last stop before Stratford – Zone 2)
Address: White Post Lane Hackney E9 5TS
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LE7FzNtxH4ctu9aq7
We will visit
V&A East
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/05/28/diller-scofidio-renfro-va-east-storehouse/
Queen Elizabeth Park
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=queen+elizabeth+park
London Olympic Velodrome
https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/explore-park/venues/lee-valley-velopark
London College of Fashion
https://architecturetoday.co.uk/london-college-of-fashion-allies-and-morrison-ual/
London Aquatics Centre
https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/explore-park/venues/london-aquatics-centre
London Orbital (from outside distance only)
https://arcelormittalorbit.com/whats-on/the-slides/
London Stadium (from outside distance only) https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/explore-park/venues/london-stadium
Return from Stratford Station
Please Note The attendants are entirely responsible from their own safety and security, the organiser will not have obligation in this respect.
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AND HERE ARE SOME QUOTES, MOSTLY BY ARCHITECTS, FOR AMUSEMENT:
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us."
"I call architecture frozen music."
“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”
“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.”
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"98% of what gets built today is shit."
"The door handle is the handshake of the building."
"God is in the details."
"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
"Good architecture is like a good therapy session, a good marriage, a good poem – gently and almost invisibly allowing you to be you, as flawed and as beautiful as you are."
"Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."
"There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it."
"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.”