Theatres Edinburgh, Lothian Arts Buildings Photos, Architects, Addresses, Designs Images
Edinburgh Theatres: Arts Buildings
Theatre + Lyric Theatre + Opera House : Edinburgh, Scotland
post updated 19 February 2025
Contemporary Scottish Capital Theatre Property Designs – key architectural selection below:
Edinburgh Playhouse
Festival Theatre
Gateway Theatre
King’s Theatre
North Edinburgh Arts
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Traverse Theatre
Edinburgh Theatre Buildings
Edinburgh Playhouse
Location: Playhouse Theatre, Leith St / Greenside Place, central Edinburgh
photograph © Adrian Welch
Edinburgh Playhouse
This is a former cinema in central Edinburgh which now hosts touring musicals and music concerts. Its capacity is 3,059, (Stalls: 1,519, Balcony: 860 and Circle: 680) making it the UK’s largest working non-sporting theatre in terms of audience capacity.
Festival Theatre
Location: 13-29 Nicolson St
photograph © Adrian Welch
Festival Theatre
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.
Leith Theatre
Proposal
picture from the architect
Leith Theatre
Kings Theatre
Address: Leven Street, Viewforth
photograph © Adrian Welch
King’s Theatre
North Edinburgh Arts
Address: Muirhouse Arts Centre, Pennywell Place, Muirhouse
North Edinburgh Arts: image by Zoo Architects
North Edinburgh Arts
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Address: 30B Grindlay Street, central Edinburgh
Royal Lyceum Theatre
This theatre is best known as the home of one of Scotland’s premier theatre companies.
Traverse Theatre
Address: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street
picture © Adrian Welch
Traverse Theatre
The Basement ceiling lets it all hang out, service ducts fully exposed. The palette is fairly dark with an accent on dark green. The theatre and bar sit in the basement of the postmodern Saltire Court, dressed with Old Red Sandstone.
Now closed:
Gateway Theatre
Location: Leith Walk (top of)
image © Adrian Welch
Leith Gateway
The theatre building was situated at no 41 Elm Row, a section of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. The site was a veterinary college in 1890, and reconstructed as Pringle’s Picture Palace in about 1910.
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Scottish Capital Building Designs
Contemporary Scottish Capital Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
Rowanbank Gardens Edinburgh Housing
image courtesy of Artisan Real Estate
1 Broughton Market short term let apartments
image courtesy of architects practice
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More Scottish Arts Buildings
Glasgow Theatre – Merchant City
Tron Theatre
Fife Theatre – in St Andrews
Byre Theatre
Scottish Borders Theatre
Dumfries Theatre
Comments / photos for the Edinburgh Theatres Architecture – contemporary Arts buildings in the Scottish capital city page welcome.
