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In 1962, the company of The Old Vic theatre was dissolved, and reconstituted as the "National Theatre Company" opening on 22 October 1963 with Hamlet. The company remained based in The Old Vic until the new buildings opened in February 1976. The National Theatre Board was established in February 1963, formally gaining the Royal prefix in 1990.
Royal National Theatre Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates . Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson , Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , but there was a gentler ...
Middle row: Royal National Theatre in London; ... Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, ...
Department of Architecture extension, University of Cambridge, Colin St John Wilson and Alex Hardy with participation by students at the university (1959); grade II listed [17] Weeks Hall, Imperial College London, Sheppard Robson and Partners (1957–58); grade II listed [18] Park Hill, Sheffield, Ivor Smith & Jack Lynn (1957–60); grade II ...
One such movement was the native development of Brutalism. Its look was created though the desire to express how buildings were constructed, for example through the use of exposed concrete. Significant "New Brutalist" buildings were the Economist Building, the Hayward Gallery, the Barbican Arts Centre and the Royal National Theatre.
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).. It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the National Poetry Library, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room), together with the Hayward Gallery, and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts.
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The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames.It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room) and also the National Theatre and BFI Southbank repertory cinema.