To mark the millennium, The Design Council selected over 100 construction related products as 'innovation stories', these range from whole buildings to individual components, which were tested to see if they opened up new opportunities, challenged existing conventions, were environmentally responsive, demonstrated the application of new or existing technology, solved a key problem or had clear user benefits.

The projects illustrated in this exhibition demonstrate the relationship between architectural design and industry and the range of contributions which the contemporary architect can make from environmental impact to brand image. The exhibition also features contributions by architects outside their traditional role - to engineering structures and products with larger production potential.

Featured projects include: The Abbey Mills pumping station – Allies & Morrison, Sainsbury's Greenwich – Chetwood Associates, Solar office – Akeler/Studio E Architects, Bluewater Park – Bovis Lendlease, EDF Fougere pylons – Ian Ritchie Associates, Motorway Signage and E66 Wind turbine – Foster & Partners.

24 A2 boards looking at technology, current issues and case studies on renewable technology in buildings. Photovoltaics, wind power, solar, ground source, biomass and hybrid systems are featured along with discussion of environmental impact, social issues and politics of energy. Case studies include Solar office Doxford, Weobley School, Hereford, Bedzed Carshalton and the New RES headquarters.

Portable buildings are amongst the earliest artifacts made by human race and some patterns of traditional buildings have not only existed more or less unchanged for millennia but also are inspiration from which the permanent buildings forms of today have arisen.

Portable architecture is manifested in a wide range of patterns, many of which are audacious in size, ingenious in strategy and dramatic in form. It also possesses a unique quality associated with event that static architecture can never match. It is found in all fields of human activity – habitation, education, entertainment, medicine, commerce and industry, and portable structures use many types of lightweight building materials and constructional strategies, and significantly, technology and techniques which are otherwise used primarily outside the building industry.

The exhibition is split into six sections looking at: Definition, Tradition and Invention, Innovation in Industry, Future Perspectives and Contemporary Practitioners. Produced in 1998.

Horta is best known for his central role in the development of Art Nouveau Architecture in Belgium and it is this work which provides a focus to the exhibition. His Art Nouveau buildings accurately reflect the cultural tendencies of the late nineteenth century and the exhibition aims to show the development of these themes from the Maison Autrique 1893 through to his last works. Produced in 1995.