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English Green Building Seminar

Spring 2006

UK Schedule

Web sites to assist you with logistics (thanks to Heather and Tisha!):

May 24June 16, 2005

  Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
24 May Wed 

4pm Orientation, International Students House, Bar
5:30pm Sustainability: Food, by Tim Lang , Arup, 13 Fitzroy St.

25 May Thu

10am Arup 13 Fitzroy St.map
Building Performance Feedback at No. 13 and building tour 
with Barry Austin and/or Rob Murphy

1:30pm Arup Associates 37 Fitzroy Square  map
Sustainable Communities & Urbanism + recent work
with Malcolm Smith and Alejandro Gutierrez

8:30pm Discussion groups with TAs

26 May Fri New London Architecture
"100 years of Innovation" opens at Building Centre
10 min. walk

12:30 Michael Hopkins Office (8 students)
27 Broadley Terrace
15–20- min. walk
map

11:00 BRE visit (12 students) with James Fisher ph 01923 644722 map1.
9:34 train London Euston to Watford Junction, then 10:12 Arriva 321 bus toward St. Albans, disembark at St. Michaels School (Orbital Road) map2. 

Tate Modern
Long Weekend
open 10am to 10pm



27 May Sat British Museum
Soane House
Victoria & Albert Museum
Natural History
Museum
28 May Sun National Gallery
Portrait Gallery

Tate Britain
Imperial War Museum

29 May Mon

Bank Holiday—Museum Day (Tate Modern open 10am to 10pm)

The Open Air Theatre: Two Shakespeare plays in Regents Park The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream open and play daily, cheapest seats £8 or £10.

8:00pm Discussion groups with TAs

30 May Tue

New London Architecture
"100 years of Innovation" opens at Building Centre
10-min. walk

11:00 Sue Roaf's Eco-House @ 26 Blandford Ave OX2 8DY & Oxford. Bring a sandwich for lunch. (10 students)map, detail map

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (Koolhaas)

Royal Academy of Art
Burlington Arcade

6pm Setting the Scene,Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
7:30pm  Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

31 May Wed

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (Koolhaas)

British Library

10am Anne Thorne Office (10 students) Angel tubemap

2:20pm BedZED "Technical Tour"

1 June Thu

10am Canary Wharf  
11am Museum in Docklands Unquiet Thames photography–map
walk/DLR to Greenwich
3pm Laban tour

2 June Fri

9:00am Discussion groups with TAs

11:30am Chiswick Park tour
(use the Gunnersbury tube stop) map

afternoon Kew Gardens £8.50 student concession
(continue from Gunnersbury tube station) 
or
  Victoria & Albert Museum suggested

3 June Sat 10am to 5pm GLA open house
2–5pm Tate Modern "Albers and MoholyNagy: The Imperative of Teaching" £8
4 June Sun 10am to 5pm GLA open house
1:00pm "Coriolanus" Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
5 June Mon

9:30am meet at Tate Modern's plaza
(tube to Blackfriars; walk north bank of Thames to Millenium Bridge)
11am St. Paul's tour
(you may explore the dome before or after the tour)
afternoon City of London Walk
6pm Foster & Partners office visit map.
(Riverside Three, 22 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN)

8:00pm Discussion groups with TAs

6 June Tue RIBA, "BECaD Sculpture Competition exclusive showing of winning designs" May 6 thru Jun 13; 5-min. walk
open M-S 10am–5pm 
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (Koolhaas)

Royal Academy of Art
Burlington Arcade

10am "Fabric of London with Richard Lorch; (10 students) meet outside Angel tube stationmap
5pm Richard Rogers office visit map & map2
Thames Wharf
Rainville Road London
W6 9HA United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0) 20 7385 1235
6-9pm Soane House Museum by candlelight
7 June Wed

9:00am Angell Town Tour (more info) with Anna Maria Orru
Meet just outside Brixton tube station. Map.

12:00 Granville Plus with Fran Bradshaw
Meet just outside Kilburn Park tube station.
There is a delightful Caribbean community cafe in the building where 
you could have lunch afterwards. Map.

Portcullis House

London Eye
£13 (£11.70 on-line)

Royal Academy of Art
Burlington Arcade

8 June Thu

9:30am London 2012: Olympic Delivery Agency, Jack Lemley
23rd floor One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, E14 5LN map
afternoon London Olympics site visit

9 June Fri 11:00 Bill Bordass (10 students) 10 Princess Road. 15-minute walk across Regents Park. map 11:00 Sue Roaf's Eco-House @ 26 Blandford Ave OX2 8DY & Oxford. Bring a sandwich for lunch. (10 students) map, detail map  
8:00pm Discussion groups with TAs
10 Jun Sat

Personal Travel Days
or stay in London for the parks and museums!

11 Jun Sun
12 Jun Mon
13 Jun Tue

Travel to Southampton/Ashurst—map
Weald and Downlands Museum (Gridhouse)

14 Jun Wed 9am Eco-Architecture Conference, Ashurst, New Forest
15 Jun Thu Eco-Architecture Conference
TBA Discussion groups with TAs
16 Jun Fri Eco-Architecture Conference until 1pm
16–25 Jun London Architecture Biennale—Architecture Week
Just in case you're in LondonA long week of celebration!
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