The London Festival of Architecture, which launched in 2004, is Europe's biggest annual architecture festival. It lasts a month and that month is June so it kicks off this week. I clicked through the map-based listings trying to find events that were a) open yesterday, b) interesting c) free d) accessible during a tube strike. And I started at the LFA hub. New London Architecture at The London Centre 3 Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH (Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm) You may remember visiting the enormous model of London housed at NLA off Tottenham Court Road, the perfect plastic replica of inner London with all the potential new buildings highlighted. Well the good news is it's resurfaced in a giant room round the back of the Guildhall, indeed it's been there since 2023 and I'm not terribly awake. You simply wander in, it's free, and not just in June but any time. The model stretches all the way from Wembley to Dagenham at 1:2000 scale, and is so detailed they've even got my balcony right. A…
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