Architecture Groups London

London Built Environment November 2026 City Of London Networking Lunch

IMPORTANT: PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK London Built Environment is the Capital's only business network dedicated to professionals working within London’s property based and related industries. Our networking events are extremely relaxed and casual affairs and attended by a wide range of business sectors with everyone from developers & solicitors to architects, investors to estate agents... Each ticket includes a delicious full lunch buffet (including v. options), a drink (alcholic or soft) and your own printed attendee sheet to take away. Join us for our November 2026 Business Networking Lunch at the Fabulous Anthologist Next To Bank Station In The Heart Of The City Of London - in their private lounge for lunch, drinks and the opportunity to talk property, make new friends and seek out fresh business leads. • No Speeches • No Talks or Schedule • No Membership Fees • No Sales Presentations Just pure relaxed networking in a friendly environment. Running for almost Two Decade our events are a proven, cost effective and fun way to generate new business.

Modern! A spotters guide to Modernist Architecture in London

Join me for a Sunday stroll... Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical architectural styles and invent something that was purely functional and new. Key architects: [Frank Lloyd Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright "Frank Lloyd Wright"), [Le Corbusier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier "Le Corbusier"), [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"), [Richard Neutra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neutra "Richard Neutra") Otto Wagner, in Vienna, was another pioneer of the new style. In his book Moderne Architektur (1895) he had called for a more rationalist style of architecture, based on "modern life”. London has some excellent examples ans we shall start off on the South Bank - meandering through the city and finish up near King's Cross - noting some of the Modernist Buildings enroute. Wear comfortable shoes, carry water, cross roads and streets with caustion. The walk is about 4 miles long. Finish at a pub for drinks and food (optional) and a chat. Meet up point is outside the Hole in Wall pub.

Visit to the William Morris Gallery at Walthamstow,including Wetlands Walk.

This meet up was very popular last time, Come with me an on this enjoyable meetup, we will meet at Costa Coffee at Walthamstow Central at 11 am for a hot drink, after our hot drink, we will make our way to the William Morris Gallery., where the entrance is free. ( To get to Costa Coffee, if you are getting off the Victoria Line, follow the signs for Weaver Line Liverpool Street, when you go to this platform, go through the exit barrier , when you come out, Costa is on the left.) The William Morris Gallery is a museum devoted to the life and works of William Morris, an English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist. It is located in Walthamstow at Water House, a substantial Grade II\* listed Georgian home. The extensive grounds of the building are a public park, known as Lloyd Park. Curiously, we have come across William Morris on other Meetup walks, namely Red House in Bexleyheath and Merton Abbey Mills in Colliers Wood. Water House in Walthamstow is where William Morris lived as a teenager. After visiting the William Morris Gallery, we will get a bus to The Ferry Boat Inn for lunch. For anyone who does not wish to have lunch in the pub there is an opportunity to visit Walthamstow Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust, across the road , where there is a cafe and tables outside where you can eat your own lunch. After lunch we will have a short walk around some of Walthamstow Wetlands then walk to Tottenham Hale Station, where you can get Overground and Underground trains. £7 meet up fee on arrival {please have the right change}. If you need any more info ring or text Paul on 07530 675739 {this is not a smart pho JOIN OUR 45+ NOT GRUMPY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY <[https://www.facebook.com/45plusnotgrumpy/](https://www.facebook.com/45plusnotgrumpy/)>

How to prepare your Behaviour Interview: for AWS and Big Techs

**You’ve worked on the projects. Now learn how to explain what you contributed — and why it matters.** Preparing for internships, placements or graduate applications? Curious about AWS and what to expect from the recruitment process? Join us for an interactive **Career Boost Workshop — open to everyone,** regardless of academic background or experience level. This session combines career insights with practical exercises to help you talk about your projects and experience more clearly and confidently. **What to expect** 1. Meet an Amazon employee and learn about AWS: Hear an introduction to Amazon Web Services and an overview of its recruitment and interview process, with an opportunity to ask questions about preparing for applications. 2. Turn your projects into stronger interview answers: Using AWS’s Storytelling for Career Readiness materials, we’ll explore how to structure answers with STAR — Situation, Task, Action, Result. Practise explaining your individual contribution, the decisions you made and what you learned. 3. Practise in small-group mock interviews: Take turns as the candidate and interviewer, with support and feedback from Imperial staff and senior students. The focus will be on behavioural questions, teamwork, problem-solving and communicating your project experience — not testing your AWS knowledge. **Who will be supporting the session?** Alongside our Amazon guest, we’ll be joined by Jamie Wright, a Careers Consultant at Imperial Careers Service. You don’t need a polished answer or a clear career plan to join. This is a supportive space to try things out, ask questions and improve through feedback. **What to bring** Bring one real project, teamwork or work experience you’d like to practise talking about, plus a laptop or notebook for your notes. A role description you’re interested in is helpful, but not required. No previous AWS or cloud experience is needed. Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026 Time: 17:00–19:00 Location: Dyson Building, Imperial College London — Lv3 301 **Come away with a stronger project story, interview practice and a clearer idea of your next steps.** [Sign up for your interest here...](https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B3WJK4zudUWDC0-CZ8PTB7mDmRj-NtZHuo7MWDyDeHhUOFQ0MUZXNzBGN09UUUZSTElRUkdBSkhIUy4u)

Olympia Transformed: a walk around London Olympia

AWS User Group UK Meetup #80

Welcome to our November event. We’re delighted to welcome [Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eacardenes/), Senior Frontend Engineer, Super, and a careers panel including [Kimberley Clements](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberleyclements471/), Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and [Mike Mead](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-mead/), Technical Director, Scale Factory Here’s what they’re bringing: 1.6 million transactions a day, over €300M in deposits a month, all running on shared Amazon S3 and CloudFront. **Eduardo** and his team moved that live payment frontend onto dedicated, jurisdiction-owned infrastructure with Terraform, and finished with zero production incidents. Tonight Eduardo is giving us the part the architecture diagram leaves out: dual deploys, feature flags and a way back that never needed an emergency release. Same AWS console, very different job. Inside AWS, at a consulting partner, alongside the public sector: where you do the work shapes the problems you get and where your career goes next. Tonight our panel walks us through what each path looks like day to day, what it gives you and what it costs. A big thank you to our sponsors [Cloudscaler](https://rebrand.ly/cloudscaler) & [Rayo](https://rebrand.ly/rayo-cloud) for making this event possible. **Programme**: * 18:00: Arrival, registration * 18:15: Talks start * 20:00: Networking with food and a drink provided by the generosity of our sponsors. Session 1: ***Zero Incidents, €300M+ in Monthly Deposits: Migrating a Multi-Jurisdiction Frontend from Shared to Dedicated AWS*** with Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes Our payment frontend handles more than 1.6 million transactions every day and over €300M in deposits every month across multiple jurisdictions. It originally ran on shared Amazon S3 and CloudFront infrastructure. As the platform grew, that shared model created wider failure boundaries: a change for one jurisdiction could affect another, while ownership, production access and cost attribution became increasingly difficult to isolate. We needed to move a live payment platform to dedicated, jurisdiction-owned AWS infrastructure without disrupting customers. Using Terraform, we created a repeatable infrastructure pattern for each jurisdiction, with dedicated S3 and CloudFront delivery, DNS, certificates, permissions, security policies, and separate production boundaries. Infrastructure changes moved from manual console operations into versioned, reviewed pull requests. But building the target architecture was only half of the migration. The harder part was moving customers safely. We deployed every application build to both the legacy and new infrastructure, validated the new path in production before customers depended on it, and used feature flags to migrate jurisdictions independently. If something went wrong, we could move that jurisdiction back to the legacy path without an emergency release. We started with the lowest-risk jurisdiction and expanded progressively, using both infrastructure health and payment behaviour to decide when to continue. The migration completed with zero production incidents. This talk shares what we learned about the part of cloud migrations architecture diagrams often miss: the transition. How coexistence, validation, observability and rollback allowed us to change the infrastructure underneath a live payment platform without making the migration a customer problem. **Learning Takeaways** * Design the transition architecture - coexistence, validation, observability and rollback - not only the target state. * Dual-deploy to legacy and new infrastructure so cutover becomes a routing decision, with feature flags to move each jurisdiction forward or back without an emergency release. * Shrink failure boundaries with jurisdiction-owned Terraform stacks, and gate each rollout stage on both infrastructure health and payment behaviour. Eduardo Aparicio Cárdenes is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Super with nearly 20 years of experience building web applications. His work combines React, TypeScript and AWS services, including Amazon S3 and CloudFront, to build fast, reliable payment experiences. He shares practical lessons on improving performance and simplifying software delivery. Session 2: Panel Discussion - ***Same Cloud, Different Careers*** with Kimberley Clements, Mike Mead and more to follow. Whether you are two years into AWS or fifteen, where you do the work - inside a consulting partner, a public sector team, a startup or AWS itself - shapes the problems you get, the pressures you are under and the directions open to you next. Most of us only ever see one of those worlds from the inside. For the second half of the evening we bring three people who have built their careers on AWS from those vantage points onto the stage together. They will talk about how they got where they are, what the work actually looks like day to day, what their path has given them and what it has cost, and what they would tell someone deciding where to take their AWS career next. Expect some straight answers on the worst mistake each of them has made on AWS, and the service they would not want to live without. **Learning Takeaways** * Compare what AWS work really looks like day to day inside AWS, at a consulting partner and alongside public sector customers. * Weigh what each path gives you, what it costs and how progression works in each. * Take away straight advice from people who have made the move on where to take your AWS career next. **Kimberley** is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she helps public sector customers design and build secure, scalable solutions in the cloud. Before AWS she served almost 17 years in the military, and she brings that experience of high-stakes, mission-focused work to every customer she supports. **Mike** is Technical Director at Scale Factory, an AWS Premier Tier Consulting Partner, and an AWS Ambassador. He joined in 2014 as a hands-on engineer, delivering large scale AWS migrations, and has since moved into leadership. Today he leads the technical side of Scale Factory’s AWS partnership, speaks regularly at conferences, and keeps the organisation aligned with the latest technology trends. His expertise continues to drive both client success and the team’s technical direction. Do you have a story to share? If you are interested in speaking at one of our events, please check out our [call for papers](https://awsuguk.org/call-for-papers/). We are advocates for greater inclusion & diversity in UK Tech and are especially keen to receive talk submissions from people in underrepresented groups. If you are interested in speaking at a future meetup but would like to discuss what to expect or need assistance, please contact our Inclusion & Diversity Lead Natalie Gray - [graynataliej@gmail.com](mailto:graynataliej@gmail.com) or DM her @natjgray Check out our [website](https://awsuguk.org/) for more information about our community and our code of conduct. Remember to follow us @AWSUserGroupUK and on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aws-ug-uk) for the latest updates, and you can find videos of our past meetups [here](https://awsuguk.org/our-videos/).

London Built Environment November 2026 Mayfair Networking Breakfast

IMPORTANT: PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK London Built Environment is the Capital's only business network dedicated to professionals working within London's property, real estate and development based and related industries. Our networking events, running for over a decade, are extremely relaxed and casual affairs and attended by a wide range of business sectors with everyone from developers & solicitors to architects, investors to estate agents... Each ticket includes teas, coffees and juices and a full breakfast food buffet (including vegetarian options) and your own printed attendee sheet to take away. Join us for our November 2026 Business Networking Breakfast at the Fabulous Jak's of Mayfair - in their private lounge for a delicious breakfast, drinks and the opportunity to talk property, make new friends and seek out fresh business leads. • No Speeches • No Talks or Schedule • No Membership Fees • No Sales Presentations Just pure relaxed networking in a friendly environment. Running for over a Decade our events are a proven, cost effective and fun way to generate new business.

AWS London Well-Architected User Group November Meetup!

Hi Architects, Welcome to our the 9th AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Dragon Hall Trust, 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT The AWS London Well-Architected Meetup is the latest chapter in the most popular AWS Meetup group globally. At each meetup we cover off various pillars of AWS best-practice in detail including insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework. We’ll be updating throughout the month with more speakers and our speakers so far this month include: * Aoife Egan \- Well\-Architected Solutions Architect II @ AWS \| \*\*\*Classified\*\*\* * Love Arinze \- Network Engineer \| Designing for Failure in an AWS Local Zone: A Real\-World Resilience Case Study So come join us at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start, including drinks, snacks and friendly networking after our talks :-)

MACS Goes To...Light and Magic @ Tate Modern

**Join MACS at Light and Magic: the birth of art photography at Tate Modern on Saturday 7th November!** Discover the untold global story of art photography. *Light and Magic* is the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global movement. Discover how artists became pioneers of the darkroom, transforming our understanding of photography and image making. Bringing together over 200 rare prints by over 80 artists from Seoul to Sydney, New York to Cape Town and Brazil to Singapore, this truly international exhibition takes a fresh and inclusive look at the history of photography. Read more here: [Information about Light & Magic Exhibition ](https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/light-and-magic) **MEET DETAILS FOR Saturday 7th November:** **☕️ FROM 2PM: MEET AT CORNER CAFE** (optional) Address: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG Look out for the MACS sign on the café table. **🏛️ 2:30 PM: ENTER THE EXHIBITION** Address: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG **🍻 4:45PM- LATE: PUB SOCIAL** (optional) We'll head to a local pub to chat over drinks! Address: *Location tbc 48 hours before event.* **🎟️ TICKETS:** You’ll need to purchase your own ticket. Please [book here](https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=380538) and choose the 2:30PM slot (or thereabouts) on Saturday 7th November. Ticket: £20 Ticket with Art Pass: £10 Members: free, no need to book **📍GETTING THERE:** [How to get to the Tate Modern](https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern) **📲 EVENT CHAT:** Please join the event chat to help you find us on the day. The event chat link will be posted on the event page around 48 hours prior to the event. This will either be a WhatsApp group or the Meetup event chat function. N.B. Joining a WhatsApp group will make your phone number visible to other members in the group. **🌟 PLEASE READ:** All MACS events are run entirely by volunteers, so please note we do what we can with the time and energy we have available! Our events have an attendee limit as we prefer a smaller, friendlier group. If you register as Going but can no longer attend, please change your RSVP as soon as possible so that we know numbers. Thank you for being part of MACS! 🧡🏛️🩵 Image credit: By Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12415472

The Hottest New Programming Language is Ubiquitous

We have a very special meetup for our November edition! We are thrilled to welcome Hemal Varambhia presenting: **The Hottest New Programming Language is Ubiquitous (Within a Bounded Context Window)** **Speaker Biography:** Hemal Varambhia is a senior technical coach at Simply Business, an insurtech based in London. Prior to his career in software development, he was an atomic and molecular physicist at UCL, in which he holds a doctorate. Outside of software development, Hemal enjoys reading and taking long walks and still maintains a strong interest in physics. Pronouns: He/Him/His Key Takeaways: * This talk is a continuation of Hemal’s session at the LSCC in [September 2025](https://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/310516638/?eventOrigin=group_events_list). Later that year, he began to reap the benefits of DDD and Ports and Adapters: refining his programmer tests (no more Docker for unit tests!) and bringing the ubiquitous language to life, which made writing tests cheap and, more importantly, fun. Towards the end of 2025, Hemal gave in to FOMO and started exploring AI-assisted programming. He was particularly interested in whether it was now possible to prompt an LLM entirely in the ubiquitous language and produce well-structured code, and in what role refactoring plays when it does. Is the future of programming DDD’s ubiquitous language? Come along to find out, and see how **refactoring** can be unlocked as a superpower. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Food and Drinks** Pizza and drinks will be provided upon arrival sponsored by [Codurance](https://www.codurance.com/), with vegetarian and vegan options available. We look forward to seeing you!

Law, Property & Business - Business Networking Event in London, Holborn

**Looking for a business networking event in London for property lawyers, solicitors, landlords, investors, developers and property professionals?** Join us in the **Holborn/Covent Garden area** for a quality networking evening bringing together people across **property, law and business**, hosted by digital business card platform GMax Card. **What to Expect** * **Connect with property solicitors, lawyers, landlords, investors, developers and property professionals** in a relaxed but purposeful setting - where conversations can lead to clients, referrals, partnerships and new opportunities. * **Build valuable professional relationships across the property ecosystem** \- from transactions\, conveyancing and legal services to investment\, development\, finance and property management\. * Meet professionals whose work naturally overlaps across **property and law**, alongside business owners and professional advisers. * A **lightly structured event** \- not a formal\, overcrowded conference\, nor a random pub mingle\. * An **atmosphere that feels high-quality yet relaxed**, with space for real professional conversations. * Hosts are there from the start to **help with introductions**. **Who You'll Meet** * Property and real estate solicitors * Conveyancers and property legal professionals * Commercial property lawyers * Landlord & tenant and lease specialists * Property developers and investors * Residential and commercial landlords * Estate agents, letting agents and block managers * Surveyors, architects and planning consultants * Mortgage brokers, bridging lenders and property finance professionals * Accountants, tax advisers and other professional advisers * PropTech and property service providers * Business owners with property interests Please note: our events are **theme-led rather than closed-sector events**, so you may also meet relevant professionals from adjacent areas such as finance, investment, business services, technology and entrepreneurship. **How the Evening Flows** 18:30 - Arrival 19:00 - Short introductions 19:30 - Open networking 21:30 - Close Hosts are there from the start to **help with introductions.** **Venue - Sycamore Bar at Middle Eight Hotel** A stylish, design-led bar inside the 5-star Middle Eight Hotel in central London. Located in the Covent Garden/Holborn area, just a short walk from Holborn, Covent Garden and Tottenham Court Road stations, it offers a relaxed and refined setting for business networking. **Entry & GMax Cards** * Free RSVP: Event access only * Paid ticket (when available): Includes a contactless GMax Card (ask host to claim; not distributed automatically) **Dress Code** Business / smart casual **Hosted by:** [GMax Card - a digital business card](http://www.gmaxcard.com/) platform designed for modern networking and professional connections beyond LinkedIn. Share **all** your contact details through one simple link. **Important Info** * 18+ (ID may be required) * Photos/video by [Cine Eye Audiovisual Production Studio](http://www.cineeye.co.uk/) (inform us if you prefer not to appear) * Attendance is at your own risk. Organisers and the venue are not liable for any injury, loss, or damage. **Limited spots - register early!** Join our [WA Business Community](https://chat.whatsapp.com/FJdEP809H5U8WQ4y4BLLS5?mode=hqctcli) to stay connected between events, and follow us on [LinkedIn](http://linkedin.com/company/gmax-card) for upcoming dates.

N is for...'The 90s: Art and Fashion' exhibition at Tate Britain

*"Optimism: that’s what defined the ’90s. There wasn’t a lot of money floating around, but you didn’t need much. We had imagination. Oh, and people went out. We all had day jobs, but we’d roll out of a club and go straight to work. The ’90s was about people searching for identities – and having fun doing it."* (Edward Enninful, curator) **Join us at Tate Britain as we explore the The 90s: Art and Fashion exhibition - a decade characterised by its bold creativity and rebellious spirit** Curated by fashion industry game changer Edward Enninful OBE, whose lived experience of the decade informs the exhibition, *The 90s: Art and Fashion* examines a defining period in which a groundswell of creativity changed the face of British culture. As Britain began to emerge from recession, a new dawn of optimism, freedom, and rebellion was ushered in, epitomised by a new generation of diverse creative talent. Seen through Edward Enninful’s eyes, this sense of opportunity resulted in art, design, fashion and photography fusing into one potent cultural force, signalling an audacious renewal of British spirit. The exhibition explores how long-held hierarchies were dismantled, with high art and pop culture feeding into one another, and reflects both the energy and the challenges of the decade, looking at the enduring influence of key figures who emerged during this time. *The 90s: Art and Fashion* brings together photography, fashion, art and design, including iconic images by photographers including Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day. These are shown alongside the work of artists like Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Yinka Shonibare, as well as fashion film and music culture, including collections by decade defining designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and John Galliano. **Read more here: [https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-90s](https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-90s)** **And here: [https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/the-90s-tate-exhibition](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/the-90s-tate-exhibition)** *** **MEET DETAILS:** **FROM 1.30pm: MEET IN TATE BRITAIN DJANOGLY CAFE (LOWER FLOOR) (optional)** Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG The host will share the table location as soon as she arrives. Look out for the LoMAZ sign on the cafe table! **2.00pm: ENTER THE EXHIBITION** Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG **4.00pm - Late: PUB SOCIAL (optional)** *Location tbc 48 hours before event* *** **TICKETS:** **You will need to purchase your own ticket for this event.** **Please book here:** **[https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/time?prid=375284-20261115](https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/time?prid=375284-20261115) and choose the 2:00pm slot (or thereabouts).** Ticket: £22 / £11 Art Pass Members: free **GETTING THERE:** [https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain](https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain) **Nearest train stations:** Vauxhall, Victoria **Nearest tube stations:** Pimlico, Vauxhall **EVENT WHATSAPP GROUP:** Please join the event WhatsApp group to help you find the group on the day. The link will be posted in the Event Comments 48 hours before the event, for those on the confirmed going list. *NB* *Joining this WhatsApp group will make your phone number visible to other members in the group.* **PLEASE READ:** LoMAZ events are run by volunteers. This event has an attendee limit as we prefer a smaller, friendlier group. If you RSVP but can no longer attend, please change your RSVP as soon as possible, **otherwise you will be marked as a 'no show'.** Please see the **[About Us section](https://www.meetup.com/london-museums-a-z-for-30s-40s/)** for more information about the group and how it works. **Thank you for your interest in the group & being part of LoMAZ.** 📸 Follow LoMAZ on **[Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/londonmuseumsatoz/)** Image credit: Juergen Teller, Young Pink Kate, London 1998 © Juergen Teller