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Regent Street is home to several events throughout the year. [74] The Regent Street Festival happens annually, and during this time, the street is closed to traffic. [75] In September, there is a series of fashion-related events, dubbed as Fashion and Design Month (FDM), which has been running since 2015.
Upon reopening in 2016, a documentary of the managers of the English rock band The Who, titled Lambert and Stamp, was screened. [4] Shira MacLeod, the director of the Regent Street Cinema, [6] said it is the only cinema in the UK that can screen films in 16 mm, 35 mm, Super 8 and 4K, allowing it to show films that "have been in archives for ...
It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction. [1] The Circus now connects Piccadilly, Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square) and Glasshouse Street. It is close to ...
Bust of the architect John Nash outside the church. The church was designed by John Nash, favourite architect of King George IV.Its prominent circular-spired vestibule was designed as an eye-catching monument at the point where Regent Street, newly-laid out as part of Nash's scheme to link Piccadilly with the new Regent's Park, takes an awkward abrupt bend westward to align with the pre ...
Central Hall of the New Gallery, from the catalogue New Gallery Notes, Summer 1888.. The New Gallery is a Crown Estate-owned Grade II Listed building [1] at 121 Regent Street, London, which originally was an art gallery from 1888 to 1910, The New Gallery Restaurant from 1910 to 1913, The New Gallery Cinema from 1913 to 1953, [2] and a Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1953 to 1992. [3]
In 1818, Slade was forced to sell by the Regent Street commissioners. Slade was awarded by a jury £23,000 as compensation (a sum considered high at the time), and the whole of the old building was removed and new rooms erected, on the east side of Regent Street at the north-west corner of Argyll Place. The new building was designed by Nash: on ...
The Regent Street campus is a Grade II listed building due to its historic and architectural interest. [15] In 1960 the London County Council announced a plan to turn Regent Street into a tri-partite federal college by adding a new College of Architecture and Advanced Building Technology (CAABT) and also a College of Engineering and Science ...
Regent Street is an arterial street in southeast central Cambridge, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It runs between St Andrew's Street , at the junction with Park Terrace , to the northwest and Hills Road at the junction with the A603 ( Lensfield Road and Gonville Place ) to the southeast.