Discover this creative urban neighbourhood, home to an ever-changing supply of start-ups, independent cafes, clubs, and event spaces. 

This area of East London continues to undergo unprecedented transformation, through infrastructure, innovation and mixed-use development. In recent years, Shoreditch has welcomed a host of major new schemes like Principal Place (Foster + Partners) - the old High Street’s first residential tower and the 100-year-old iconic Tea Building factory (AHMM) and more workshops, studios and boutique hotels by architects Duggan Morris, Witherford Watson Mann, Conran and Partners among others.  

 

Landmarks such as the visual arts gallery in Rivington Place (David Adjaye) confirmed the area’s serious credentials, alongside large-scale, 1960s retrofits like the expanded Ace Hotel (EPR) and Arnold House (Buckley Grey Yeoman). New build, low-rise flexible workspaces like Frames (Squire and Partners) underscore the area’s new sophisticated status as it segues into the new configuration of Old Street Roundabout (Weston Williamson + Partners) and overlooked by the large-scale retrofitted White Collar Factory and Bower schemes (AHMM). 

 

Join this exploration of the past, present and future of an associated ‘Shakespearian’ part of East London. 

 

Duration: 2 hours approx.
 

Start: Shoreditch High Street Overground Station entrance
 Ends: Liverpool Street Station