Ram Quarter, Greenland's award-winning redevelopment of the former Ram Brewery site, has been chosen again to appear in the Open House London festival, an annual celebration of London's architectural heritage, its neighbourhoods and the communities that make them.
Open House will return to the capital between 13-21 September. Greenland will be hosting guided tours of Ram Quarter, led by EPR Architects which designed the development. The architect will explain the preservation of the site's unique history and give an overview of the planning and design considerations.
Tours will delve into the story behind the buzzing community that Ram Quarter has become today, and will also take visitors into Ram Quarter's Heritage Centre run by Sambrook's, London's oldest independent brewery. Anticipated high demand means that entry into the Heritage Centre will be limited to the first fifteen people who book and attend each Open House tour.
To mark another year of being selected for the Open House festival, Greenland will be launching a photography competition which, once open, will run until 11.59pm BST on Wednesday 17 September 2025. Entrants will need to take a single photograph of Ram Quarter which shows the development's design or architecture to striking effect, and post it on their social media or send it via e-mail. EPR Architects will judge the competition and pick one winner. Once judging is complete, the winner will be given £50 in credit to spend at Ram Quarter in the Sambrook's taproom. Full terms and conditions are below.
Tours have been very popular in previous years and were fully booked within a day of release in mid-August in 2024. Additional visitors are however welcome to join the opening half-hour outdoor walk if they aren't able to secure a place officially on a tour. Tours will start promptly at 11am, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm by the tree in Bubbling Well Square at Ram Quarter.
Open House will publish its full 2025 programme preview on 16 July. Tours will open for booking at midday on Wednesday 20 August.
Terms and conditions:
Entering the competition
- Take your own photograph at Ram Quarter, showing a view of the development that you find beautiful or striking (e.g. this could relate to design, architecture, colour, materiality, or a meeting of the old and new), and include a sentence or two describing the development and/or what you captured in your photograph.
- This photograph must be posted to one or more of your social media channels, or e-mailed to competition@ramquarter.com
- If posted on social media, the photograph post must tag Ram Quarter (@RamQuarter) and EPR Architects (@EPRArchitects) and include the hashtag #RamQuarterOpenHouse.
- Only one photograph per person will be accepted (the first e-mailed, or posted on social media with the correct hashtag and tags). The same photograph posted on multiple social media channels will be accepted as one entry.
Eligibility
- The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or older.
- By entering the competition you give Greenland the right to repost and/or publish your image and text, and/or to use it in the future.
- Entries will be accepted from the UK only.
- The competition is not open to anyone working at Greenland, Sambrook's or EPR Architects, or their friends or family.
Closing date for entry
- Entries to the competition will be accepted until 11.59pm BST on Wednesday 17 September 2025.
- The winner will be notified by the end of September 2025.
The prize
- The winner will be entitled to expenditure to the value of £50 on food and drink in Sambrook's taproom at Ram Quarter, to be booked with Sambrook's for a date of the winner's choice.
- Availability of the chosen date will be confirmed by Sambrook's.
- The prize must be redeemed not later than 30 November 2025.
- No cash alternative to this prize will be offered.
- The prize must be redeemed in one visit. If the prize is not redeemed in full on that visit, no change will be given.
- If the entry was by social media, the winner will post on social media about the prize-winning visit during the visit itself, or the day following the visit. If the entry was by e-mail, the winner will e-mail Greenland by the end of the day after the visit to confirm that it has taken place.
The winner and claiming your prize
- The winning photograph will be selected by EPR Architects. The judge's decision is final and not open to appeal.
- The winner will be notified at the e-mail address or via the social media channel on which the application was made.
These terms and conditions may change without notice.