Demolish Broadcasting House?

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  • Lento
    Full Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 646

    Demolish Broadcasting House?

    Novel idea from Sir Neville Mariner about where to build a new concert hall (about 27 min in):



    He likes RAH, though, but, with warmer summers a possibility, a slightly smaller Proms venue with all mod cons might be welcomed by some. I wonder how the old Queen's Hall managed the promming space, or did they just use fully portable arena seating in the winter, like RAH does?
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30285

    #2
    Crumbs - they've just spent over £1bn refurbishing it
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Frances_iom
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 2413

      #3
      1Bn = just 10 scapegoats thus solves the needed clearout of big white chiefs as well

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      • Richard Tarleton

        #4
        The original architect of New Broadcasting House Sir Richard MacCormac died the other day and was remembered on Last Word. He resigned from the project when his design was changed for something cheaper.

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          #5
          The Beeb seem to have a habit in that respect. David Chipperfield parted company with them over their new HQ in Glasgow, when they changed the specifications for cheaper materials. I'm sure we all appreciate careful management of our money, but surely that should have been sorted out at the commisioning/design stage, and/or enough contingency funds set asside to allow for increses in materials costs.

          As for demolishing Broadcasting House, there aren't that many good 1930s buildings so definitely not. If Neville Mariner wants a new concert hall perhaps it should be outside London - surely London has plenty already? - & King's Place was opened only a couple of years ago.

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          • visualnickmos
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3610

            #6
            Why can't the Dome be used as a classical concert venue, amongst all it's multi-usage existence? Yeah - OK it as ugly as hell, but does that really matter, as it's almost a ready-for-use venue, and just far enough outside central London to be considered as having the potential for a huge catchment area?

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              #7
              Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
              If Neville Mariner wants a new concert hall perhaps it should be outside London - surely London has plenty already? - & King's Place was opened only a couple of years ago.
              Actually, London could do with a decent concert hall to match the Victoria Hall, Symphony Hall and The Sage

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