Public London: Activating the City

Launched alongside NLA's new publication 'Public London: Activating the City', this exhibition showcases best practice in public realm activation.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the London Festival of Architecture, the exhibition looks back at some of the momentous projects of the last two decades and explores how cultural activation projects have contributed to shaping London's urban landscape in the last 20 years.

The Royal Docks Model

The Royal Docks model at 1:1000 scale provides an overview of the exciting developments across the area over the next 10 years.

Today, the Royal Docks is one of the UK’s most important regeneration stories, re-emerging as a commercial and cultural hub of global significance and identified as a key opportunity area within the London Plan. This full 3D-printed model represents 10,000 buildings covering 19.2 km2, showing schemes with detailed planning consent as well as key and emerging landmarks within the area. It will be on exhibition until March 2025.

London's Growing Up: A Decade of Building Tall

Delving into a decade of building tall, this anniversary edition of the London's Growing Up! Exhibition sheds light on how tall buildings have transformed London over the last ten years, and how they are likely to continue to shape London into the future.

Exploring the challenges, opportunities, and best practices in high-density, featuring insights from industry leaders and experts, a unique dataset and survey, case studies and models of iconic skyscrapers in London.

London: Change, Opportunity, Vision

The permanent exhibition at The London Centre invites visitors to explore the transformation of London in the last 20 years, the opportunities that come with change, and the vision needed to deliver the city all Londoners deserve.

Centred around our world class scale models of the city, London: Change, Opportunity, Vision covers key areas across the capital where change has been successful and sustainable. The exhibition reveals how planning in London works today and the vast array of opportunities on offer, inviting everyone across the capital to envision and shape a better.

This free display will feature a broad range of projects, products and materials that make attractive places for people to work, live and play.

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The City Model

The City of London, also known as the Square Mile, is the primary business district and historic centre of London. The 1:500 City Model is the best place for people to come to experience the future of the City of London’s skyline and engage with new developments. 

The model is used by a range of built environment professionals involved in the shaping of the City and includes exact scale replicas of the buildings in and around the Square Mile, with added detail on illuminated buildings built since the year 2000. 

The original model base is now 30 years old, over this time the model has grown to include wooden blocks, detailed cardboard cut-outs and 3D printed buildings. There are three building colours on the model which are representative of different historical periods of the City’s architecture.  

The New London Model

Explore London from new perspectives with a giant model of central London.

• 1:2000 scale
• 12.5 metres-long
• Over 195 square kilometres of London
• 19 boroughs 
• 34km of the Thames 
• 21 bridges 
• Stretches from King’s Cross in the north to Peckham in the south and the Royal Docks in the east to White City in the west.

The model is updated 2-3 times per year, using data supplied by developers and architects, and is the only place you can come to physically see what London will look like in the future.