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Security fears hit Open House weekend 20/09/01

Amidst security fears in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in New York, several central London buildings have pulled out of London Open House weekend.

Landmark buildings to have withdrawn from the Open House weekend are: New Zealand House in Haymarket, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in Cockspur Street, Horse Guards in Whitehall, the Government Art Collection near Tottenham Court Road and the Old Treasury Building, also in Whitehall, the Foreign Office and India Office.

The Economist building in St James's Street, Lancaster House and Seaford House will also close their doors to visitors.

Listed below are a few of the highlights featuring around central London this weekend....

Marble Arch
Channel Four Television
Hyde Park Pet Cemetery
17 Carlton House Terrace, The Civic Trust
68 Dean Street
Accumulator Tower and Pump House
Ashburnham House Westminster School
Banqueting House
Benjamin Franklin House
BBC Broadcasting House
Economist Building
Fitzmaurice House (Lansdowne House
House of St Barnabas-in-Soho & Chapel
Michael Hopkins & Partners Offices
RIBA Head Office and Architecture Gallery
Rudolf Steiner House

Terry Farrell & Partners Office
Westminster Hall & Portcullis House

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Rubbish art cleaned up
The Westminster Prize
La Traviata at English National Opera
Closer To Heaven dies a death
Security fears hit Open House weekend
The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman
The circus comes to… Trafaglar Square?
Moulin Rouge premier
Linda Gray is the new Mrs Robinson
"The fastest show on earth" slows to a halt
Planet of the Apes premiere
Pearl Harbor opens in the West End
Pet Shop Boys' new musical opens at the Art Theatre
Elle MacPherson takes the West End?
RSC to leave Barbican for the West End
Royal Opera to host pop concerts?
Anne Archer - The New Mrs Robinson

Contemporary Don Giovanni booed
Tomb Raider opens
New sculpture for the empty plinth
Lloyd Webber closes The Beautiful Game
High Heels and Low Lifes opens


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Creative Quarters
Cleopatra of Egypt

Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective
The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival
Sir John Soane's Museum

Interviews
Kendra Zangbell, The Prince Charles Cinema

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Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design at the Design Museum
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My Village meets author Tim Lott