Part sculpture, part architectural installation, all play, The Brutalist Playground by Turner Prize winners Assemble and artist Simon Terrill formed a key part of the LFA2025 programme a 2015, Commissioned by the RIBA commission the project explored post-war design for play, and drew inspiration from a number of London estates: Churchill Gardens, Pimlico; the Brunel Estate, Paddington and the Brownfield Estate, Poplar.

As part of Irish Design 2015, a yearlong international celebration of Irish Design, Ireland created a programme for the LFA that included workshops and events across the city, including an instalment of 'New Horizon', a year-long initiative backed by the Irish government exploring, promoting and celebrating Irish design and the installation of two pavilions in Lewis Cubitt Square, King's Cross. The two temporary structures at King's Cross played host to talks, performances and events with other emerging talent in contemporary Irish design culture.

For the second year running, RIBA Open Studios offered visitors a chance to go behind the scenes at some of the capital's most innovative architecture practices, with over 50 RIBA Chartered Practices taking part across East, North, South and West London. Each practice offered their own curated programme, featuring exciting work and newly commissioned projects, lively and engaging debate, talks, discussions, seminars. workshops, exhibitions and demonstrations.

The Architecture Foundation screened two films at the Barbican Centre exploring the rise of the mechanised home. In Fortress of Solitude, design research studio Space Caviar probed the future of the ‘smart home’, while Philip Saville’s 1966 film, The Machine Stops – based on E M Forster’s short story of the same name ­– inhabited a post-apocalyptic future where humans live underground in isolated cells.