PROPERTY Refurbishment for Trocadero cinema


Panter Hudspith architects have completed a refurbish- ment of the Cineworld Cinema at


the iconic Trocadero


in London’s Piccadilly. The site reopened last


Chai Ki is owner Rohit Chugh’s second restaurant


DesignLSM creates raw, urban interior for eatery


Taking inspiration from New York with an urban style full of raw finishes and detailed features, DesignLSM has completed the interior design of a new restaurant in London’s Canary Wharf. Chai Ki is seen as a development of owner


Rohit Chugh’s existing Roti Chai restaurant, in Marylebone, London, which has also inspired the design of the new space. The high ceilings of the new


restaurant have allowed for the cre- ation of a “visually arresting” interior, according to DesignLSM. Individual areas have been given their own character, but the company has worked to create visual harmony across the whole scheme. Small features, such as waiter stations modelled aſter Chai stands on the streets of India, offer a hint of the restaurant’s heritage. Particularly noteworthy is the site’s


kitchen, which DesignLSM says has been treated as an “architectural intervention”. Details: http://lei.sr?a=C3K8x_O


Design competition for new Museum of London home


Te Museum of London has been awarded £200,000 to set up an architectural competi- tion for its new home at Smithfield Market. On behalf of London’s mayor, Boris


Johnson, the Greater London Authority (GLA) designated the funds as part of its backing for the proposed relocation. The museum wi ll now run an


architectural contest to appoint a designer and other consultants, who will develop the new museum to concept stage. A detailed strategic brief articulating space require- ments, and a procurement and management plan to manage the new museum project, will also be completed in October 2015. Although two other options – improvements to the Powell & Moya-designed build- ing and developing a new building on the existing site – were considered, the Smithfield relocation was deemed the most viable. Details: http://lei.sr?a=h3d5S_O


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month as the Picturehouse Central – a new 1,000 seat, seven-screen flagship cinema. Te Trocadero is a mixed-


use building in the heart of London with a colourful past. Parts of it are currently closed for refurbishment. The new cinema is part of its renaissance. Panter Hudspith, which has also completed another Picturehouse Central in nearby Dulwich, has extensively restructured the interior, providing new spaces for cafes, bars, a restaurant and a rooſtop terrace offering views over Piccadilly. The elaborate Baroque Grade II listed


Te Picturehouse Central entrance in the Trocadero’s Baroque façade


100 and lobby access to the cinema screens. Martin Brudnizki Design Studio has used cinematic culture, from Hollywood glamour to art-house cinema, to create the interior. Listed friezes by Gerald Moira from the days


façade has been rejuvenated and a new glass frontage onto Shaſtesbury Avenue leads into a double-height foyer. A grand oak and red tiled staircase leads from the foyer to the first floor bar and restaurant, with seating for


when the site was home to Scott’s Restaurant remain on public display and the ground floor café displays a specially commissioned illus- trative mural by artists Patrick Vale and Paul Davis. Te existing seven auditoria have also been upgraded. Details: http://lei.sr?a=u6J6r_O


£36m live music centre coming to Hull


Hull has moved one step closer to having its own inter- national music and events centre aſter councillors voted to push ahead with plans for the £36m city centre site. AFL Architects have


designed the 3,500 capacity venue and Hull City Council is now seeking a partner opera- tor to run the facility alongside a contractor to build it. The purpose-built venue


will, for the first time, allow Hull to attract large corporate and association conferences, exhibitions and trade tours as well as major touring concerts, stand-up comedy, family shows and sporting events. The brand new centre will include


Te council has committed £36.2m towards building the complex


as part of the scheme, in combination with development partners the Wykeland Group. “A high-quality, purpose-built events


dividable break-out rooms, a restaurant, dressing rooms with en-suite facilities, an outside broadcast space and acoustics suitable for conferences and amplified music. The council has committed £36.2m


towards the cost of building the complex on the site behind Princes Quay shopping centre. Princes Quay owner CIT is to devel- oping a neighbouring 150-bedroom hotel


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital


and conference centre is essential to mak- ing Hull a top visitor destination and to secure a long-term legacy from our year as UK City of Culture,” said Hull City council- lor Steven Bayes. According to the council, design concepts will be completed and con- tractors appointed by the end of 2015, with the venue scheduled to open in 2018. Details: http://lei.sr?a=Y6u5q_O


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