Stratford Waterfront / East Bank and Here East
Mar 15, 2020 9:39:37 GMT
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 15, 2020 9:39:37 GMT
This has passed me by, perhaps it has you .. Assuming we're still here in 2 years a new very large arts 'district' will be opening opposite the Olympic Stadium at Stratford.
Most on point for us will probably be two new performance spaces; a BBC concert hall and a 550-seat venue for Sadlers Wells (which obv. won't be far from the new ENB home closer to Docklands). It's really a lot more than that, though:
Sadler's Wells East will open a 550-seat theatre and establish a new centre for choreographic practice and a hip hop academy, both of which will be the first of their kind in the country
UAL's London College of Fashion will integrate its six sites onto one campus, accommodating 6,500 students with their world-leading research community, business incubation and social enterpise centres
V&A East will display its world-famous collections at two sites with a new museum at Stratford Waterfront and the V&A Collection and Research at Here East
The Smithsonian Institution will establish a presence in London for the first time ever, in partnership with the V&A
The state of the art BBC music studios will provide a hub from which to celebrate music of all genres
UCL will create a new campus, UCL East, providing multi-disciplinary research, teaching and innovation, in areas such as robotics, smart cities, culture and conservation, for around 4,000 students
London College of Fashion has six sites across the West End and City they will be vacating. Looks like purely addition space for all the other institutions.
V&A seems to have two new additional locations, a shared space with the Smithsonian, and then a ' new collection and research centre' which sounds interesting. A few of the more informative links I looked at:
