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Festival Theatre, Edinburgh : Information + Images
Location: 13-29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Date: 1994 Architects: LDN Phone +44 (0)131 662 1112 photo of building main facade © adrian welch Festival Theatre Extension £2m rehearsal space behind the Festival Theatre set for approval. The extenison would be funded by building student flats between the new space and South College Street. 280109 pictures © adrian welch, 2009 The re-vitalisation of the existing, Grade B listed, auditorium of the 1928 Empire Theatre to form a Lyric Theatre & Opera House - Festival Theatre Edinburgh - maintaining its basic virtues of size and acoustic performance, but increasing the stage area (now the largest in the UK), orchestra pit and back-of-house facilities to accommodate even the largest performance requirements. facade images from LDN Now one of the World's leading auditoria for opera, ballet, music and theatre, the interface between new glassy atrium of the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and decorative and richly-coloured auditorium is marked. interior images from LDN Architects The facade is a structural tour de force and Edinburgh's only real example of the era's hi-tech phase popularised down south by Rogers, Foster and Hopkins et al. photo of building edge to north © aw facade at night image supplied by LDN Architects Festival Theatre architects : LDN Build cost approx. £15m Festival Theatre with Old College beyond © adrian welch entry image from LDN Architects Edinburgh Festival Theatre is part of the Edinburgh Old Town Tour facade photo from LDN Festival Theatre Edinburgh - Box Office: 0131 529 6000 foyer image supplied by LDN Architects detail + main facade photos by aw Scottish Architecture Jenners Theatre Buildings : Designs + Photos from around the globe Edinburgh Theatres: Edinburgh Playhouse North Edinburgh Arts Royal Lyceum Theatre Traverse Theatre Glasgow: Tron Theatre Fife: Byre Theatre Scottish Borders: Dumfries Theatre Address: Festival City Theatres Trust, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh 0131 662 1112 Edinburgh : back to index Comments / photos for the Festival Theatre Edinburgh Architecture page welcome: info@edinburgharchitecture.co.uk Festival Theatre Edinburgh Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt