Camberwell Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and South London Gallery are marshalling local talent and mounting the annual Camberwell Arts Festival which runs from tomorrow to next Sunday, 24 June. Camberwell Arts Festival is all about the artistic activity in the area - and judging by the enormous festival programme, there's clearly a lot of it about. SE5 isn't the hottest of spots in London the rest of the year but for the next......

Architecture Week starts tomorrow and we don't know where to start. All things architectural get a week to shine across the country for this week and London, which has the shiniest of shiny buildings has a particularly packed schedule. The website has the full programme and a handy itinerary compiler but there's at least one thing we wanted to tell you about as things kick off. It's the live broadcast of sound of Yorkshire......

“The biggest gherkin in Christendom could soon be overshadowing London” So utters Jeremy Paxman to open the trailer for improbable movie ‘Building the Gherkin’. That’s right. Everyone’s favourite pickle-shaped landmark has made its first flick, co-starring Norman Foster and Ken Livingstone. Just a month and a day after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is erected in London. One question is......

It's another packed weekend for those of you not already booked up for Architecture Week or otherwise engaged for the football. The schedule for this weekend's sunny Culture Crawl involves a lot of outdoor entertainment, some indoor events and as always, not a lot of money. Thursday 22 June Opening night of the Greenwich and Docklands Festival - all events are free and open air. For this event, you have to go to Woolwich......

So we enter Endgame. Architecture week and the London Architecture Biennale (LAB) draw to a close this weekend. And we still haven't figured out how to pronounce 'biennale'. Here’s our pick of the final flourish. Friday Walks: A bevy of novel guided walks are available on Friday. The Borough Market Experience (£5, 9am) tours the Victorian marketplace, highlighting both its ancient roots and its modern refurbs. Shakespeare, Social Space and Design (£7, 10.30, George......

It's probably the 'architecture week effect' but we seem to be drowning in a storm of best/worst building polls at the moment. Only last week we were having a good old moan about the BBC's Worst London Building poll, specifically the fact that the Gherkin has been included in their shortlist. So we were quite pleased to discover today that 30 St Mary Axe has been named London's best new building as part of......

If you're not worn out and over-stretched running around London for this most exciting London Architecture Week and you feel able to fit in a bit of sculpture-snooping too, there is plenty to see in the third annual London Sculpture Week. Though aimed at collectors and buyers, the event is a good chance for anyone interested in sculpture and 3D art to see what is tucked away in the galleries and dealerships in town......

This day in London’s History We have to admit that it can sometimes be a struggle to find a suitably interesting slice of London history. Being interesting and engaging is obviously of paramount importance, which is why we often find ourselves hoping that we can dig up something more noteworthy than say, Jeffrey Archer stubbing his toe on a coffee table in his riverside penthouse whilst taking a break from writing another cack novel......

London Architecture Biennale and Architecture Week got off to a fine if sweaty start this weekend. We’d particularly recommend ‘Transit’, an Iain Sinclair-narrated short film by Emily Richardson, in catacombs beneath Smithfield Market - spooky, thought provoking and surprisingly deserted when we visited. Here’s our pick of the many events happening over the next couple of days. And don’t worry about missing the football. They’ve thought of that… Monday Blueprint Big Breakfasts: The chance......

The London Architectural Biennale and Architecture Week kick off proper tomorrow. Don’t be put off by the user-unfriendly names. Most of the events are aimed squarely at us everyday Londoners, and you’ll need no architectural knowledge to enjoy the activities. However, you will need very good organisational skills if you don’t want to miss out. There are such a staggering number and variety of events to consider that you might want to hire a......

Ahead of Architecture Week the Beeb have compiled a shortlist of the public's most hated London buildings, and it's a slightly surprising list: The pre-fabricated, pre-cast concrete Centrepoint The tower at Colliers Wood The Swiss Re headquarters - better known as the Gherkin The arts complex on the river at the Southbank Centre The Tower Hotel by Tower Bridge The Gherkin? We never realised there was such a tide of discontent against, what we......

This day in London’s History 1381: Peasants’ Revolt reaches Blackheath. Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, John Bull and several thousand other aggrieved workers assembled on the great heathland south of Greenwich as a prelude to London’s biggest ever poll tax riot. The mob entered the city on the following day and began breaking things — Savoy Palace, John of Gaunt’s home, the Archbishop of Cantebury’s neck… The revolt was finally quashed a couple of days......

54 TOURS, 35 EXHIBITIONS, 19 TALKS, 5 PARTIES, 16 INSTALLATIONS, 8 FILM SCREENINGS, 5 BIG BREAKFASTS, 5 COMPETITIONS, 40 RAILINGS EXHIBITIONS AND 60 HERDWICK SHEEP So, your significant other is going to spend the entire early summer watching football? Wondering what to do with yourself? Well, why not get all enthusiastic about architecture? Throughout June, you can expect a fair few posts on London’s buildings. This month sees the tenth Architecture Week (actually 10......

In order to walk the walk as well as talk the talk, Londonist took its own advice and spent much of the hottest June day since 1976 standing in a tunnel in Rotherhithe. The tunnel in question is of course Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the earliest stretch of Tube tunnel and the first tunnel to pass under a river. As part of Architecture Week, guided tours are being taken through part of this international engineering......

As hackneyed phrases go, 'incredible feat of Victorian engineering' is right up there with 'ailing pontiff' and 'medical breakthrough'. But it’s time to dust off (and there's another one) that old cliché once again as the Brunel Engine House announces guided tours of the remarkable Wapping to Rotherhithe tunnel. As part of Architecture Week, various bits of this incredible feat of Victorian engineering will be open to the public over the next two weekends.......

Our friend Adrian Maddox of the brilliant Classic Cafes site emailed us today to let us know that he's put together a nice big feature in this week's issue of Time Out. The article maps out a Central London cafe tour and was written specifically to celebrate Architecture Week (more of which later). The tour takes in those establishments which are under "clear and present danger" (i.e. they might be gone soon) and kicks......