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On your bike with Sky Rides
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the UK’s largest celebration of architecture taking place in the capital from 19th June to 4th July, has teamed up with Sky to get people on their bicycles with a host of guided tours across the city called LFA Sky Rides.
Cycling is a major attraction at this year’s festival which attracts thousands of people keen to discover more about London’s architectural treasures. Organised in partnership with Feilden Clegg Bradley architects, there will be over 20 organised LFA Sky Rides taking place, led by some of the country’s most respected architects and cultural commentators.
Director of the London Festival of Architecture, Peter Murray said “We are very pleased to be working with Sky. The Festival’s theme is ‘The Welcoming City’ and we believe that cycling cities are a nicer place to live and work. Sky’s support of the festival will enable us to offer a range of exciting and innovative cycle tours around London’s most inspirational sites.”
In addition to the LFA ‘Sky Rides’, the festival will feature other cycling attractions. On Saturday June 19 the roads around Smithfield Market will be closed off, during the day they will be available for traffic-free family cycling, in the evening they will be transformed into a racetrack for the ‘The Smithfield Nocturne’, a circuit race around the market featuring some of the world’s top road cyclists and a special Festival Architects and Developers race. An innovative bicycle parking solution will be unveiled at the festival created by designer, Anthony Lau. He has developed a bike parking unit that resembles a car and sits in a car parking space, they will be ‘parked’ in bays across the city throughout the event.
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