Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Nicolson Street building photos, Architect, Location, Date, Pictures
Festival Theatre Edinburgh Building
Lyric Theatre + Opera House on Nicolson St, Edinburgh, Scotland, design by LDN Architects
post updated 28 October 2023 + 7 July 2023 ; 7 January 2022 + 28 July 2021
Festival Theatre in Edinburgh
Location: 13-29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, southeast Scotland, UK
Date built: 1994
Architects: LDN
Phone +44 (0)131 662 1112
photo of building main facade © Adrian Welch
22 Jul 2010
Festival Theatre Extension News
Proposals to carry out an extension to the Festival Theatre have come under fire from The Cockburn Association has written to the Lord Provost in an attempt to block plans for a £2.8 million development. The Festival Theatre extension, which will provide a practice stage, currently depends on the land to the rear of the building being sold.
building picture © Adrian Welch, 2009
Campaigners have said that the proposed student housing and office block would ruin the look of the area, which is home to the university’s Old College. Marion Williams, director of the Cockburn Association, said that the plans would also rule out future stage expansion. However Council sources say that the extension would have to be indefinitely shelved if the student development is axed.
Nicolson Street building photograph © Adrian Welch, 2009
28 Jan 2009
Festival Theatre Extension
£2m rehearsal space behind the Festival Theatre is set for planning approval. This building extenison would be funded by building student flats between the new space and South College Street.
building photo © 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 – will maintain its basic virtues of size and acoustic performance. However, it will also increase the stage area (now the largest in the UK), orchestra pit and back-of-house facilities to accommodate even the largest performance requirements.
Nicolson St building 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.
Nicolson Street building 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.
facade at night image supplied by LDN Architects
Build cost approximate: £15m
This Scottish capital Arts venue with Old College beyond:
picture © Adrian Welch
A view of the entrance:
image from LDN Architects
This Arts venue in the Scottish capital city is part of the Edinburgh Old Town Tour.
facade photo from LDN
Festival Theatre Edinburgh Box Office
Phone 0131 529 6000
Foyer view:
foyer image from LDN Architects
detail + main facade photos by AW
Address
Festival City Theatres Trust, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Phone: 0131 662 1112
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