www.London-SE1.co.uk @se1 /londonse1 March 2013 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station Contact Steel & Shamash se1 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Issue 177 FREE Tel: 020 7803 3999 in Email: [email protected] All change at Southbank Centre Festival Wing plans to be revealed Southbank Centre will this art for more people of all ages and create world-class facilities for artists and visitors to enjoy, fit for the 21st month reveal proposals for the century. We will draw on the continued success of our refurbishment of the Queen year-round festival programme and the original spirit Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and of the Festival of Britain to transform this part of the Hayward Gallery complex – to be site.” At a panel discussion in January Clare Hughes, known as the Festival Wing – with a creative producer at Feilden Clegg Bradley, explained public exhibition from Thursday 7 the changing requirements of the arts centre. March. “At Southbank Centre they’ve made an amazing Plans are currently being drawn up by Feilden job working with difficult buildings which were Clegg Bradley Studios who were appointed as lead designed at a time when their artistic and cultural architect last autumn. Their design brief is to refurbish programme was structured around discrete, almost and renew the 1960s concert halls and art gallery, as bunker-like, places for specific types of art,” she said. well as explore a more ambitious project to reclaim “Now the art is much more free-flowing and public unused and underused space. space and free events are far more important than Early documents lodged with Lambeth Council anyone could have imagined in the 1960s. reveal that an ‘infill extension’ is proposed between the “With these buildings, their strengths are their Hayward Gallery and the Queen Elizabeth Hall rising to weakness. I would say that their difficulty was part nearly 45 metres, the same height as City Hall. of their rationale: they were the rebellious teenager A 31-metre-high ‘linear building’ could sit between alongside the upper middle class parents at the Waterloo Bridge and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Festival Hall.” The plans are likely to see venue and gallery She added: “Like most teenagers, they do have to The Shard is one of 90 contenders space almost trebled to 9,000 sq m, with foyer space start to grow up now. I think it’s that growing process for the Design of the Year title doubling to 3,000 sq m. that we are trying to help with.” which will feature in a new One of the most controversial elements of the new The draft designs for the new Festival Wing will be exhibition at the Design Museum scheme is the 5,500 sq m allocated to restaurants and presented at a public exhibition open from Thursday from Wednesday 20 March. A cafes. 7 March in the Royal Festival Hall at Level 2 Blue Side. Room for London, the temporary Artistic director Jude Kelly said: “Our vision is to The exhibition will be open daily 10am-11pm and will hotel room on top of the Queen make the most of these extraordinary buildings and be updated as the plans develop through consultation. 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