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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 ...
Iain Mackintosh is a British practitioner of theatre combining four interwoven careers as theatre producer, theatre space designer, curator of theatre painting and architecture exhibitions, and author and lecturer on both modern and eighteenth century theatre. He has campaigned for the retention and restoration of historic theatres as working ...
Originally known as the Theatre Royal and Opera House. The theatre is of red brick with buff terracotta dressings. The facade is of 4 storeys. The entrance canopy is a modern addition. The interior features a marble and wood panelled entrance hall and staircase and an elaborately decorated auditorium. [29] II* [29] 16 July 1900 Gaiety Theatre
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.
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on Royal Shakespeare Theatre, by the Detroit Publishing Company (restoration by Adam Cuerden) New Town Hall of Hanover , by Der Wolf im Wald Kikin Hall , by Florstein
[55] [56] However, whether South Vietnamese architecture prior to 1975 was brutalism or not remains a matter of dispute, with some architects argued it was actually modernism. [57] In recent years, public sentiments in Vietnam towards brutalist architecture has shifted negatively, but the style is said to have made a comeback recently. [58]
October 25 – Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank, designed by Denys Lasdun, opened. November 26 – The OCBC Centre in Singapore, designed by I. M. Pei & Partners, completed. Bagsværd Church in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Jørn Utzon, completed. John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Henry N. Cobb of I. M ...