Title & Author:

Building Case Study 6 - Theatre Reconstruction: Savoy Theatre, London. Part 2 / [presented by] William Whitfield (Whitfield Partners), David Lyle (Whitfield Partners), David Walsh (Whitfield Partners), Red Mason (Whitfield Partners), Clive Shippen (Shippen French Partnership), Duncan Campbell (Max Fordham & Partners), John Clarke (Bucknall Austin), Jerry Godden (Theatre Projects), Gary Pearce (Bovis Construction) & Julian Courtenay (Savoy Theatre).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1993.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Dress Circle & Soffit Of Upper Circle -- Section Showing Proposed Offices -- Section With Leisure Centre -- Procurement Package Programme -- Steelwork -- Architectural Ironwork -- Seating -- Fibrous Plaster Flanking The Stage -- Fibrous Plaster From Entrance Foyer -- Fibrous Plaster In Dress Circle -- Fibrous Plaster In Upper Circle Bar -- Exit Sign In Auditorium -- Unfinished Ceiling In Embankment Foyer -- Balcony Front. Sketch -- Carting Lane -- Cladding At Roof Level -- Roof Level Under Construction -- Auditorium Before Fire -- Leisure Centre & Pool -- Column Structure Seen In Carting Lane -- Elevation To Carting Lane -- Longitudinal Section -- The Auditorium -- Main Entrance In Savoy Court
Recorded in 1993

Summary:

On 12 February 1990 the Savoy Theatre in London burned down and, as far as the auditorium was concerned, it was almost a total loss. The decision was taken to recreate this Art Deco theatre exactly as it had been before the fire, that is in the form it had taken in 1929. In the recording, the members of the design team with the contractor and other consultants discuss the enormous difficulties this involved, and the pros and cons of having chosen a management contract for such a job. Together they provide an invaluable lesson in what can be involved in the restoration of a listed building of great complexity.

Resources:
Pidgeon Digital Content

Subject:

Savoy Theatre (London, England)
Art deco (Architecture)
Theaters Reconstruction England London.
Art déco (Architecture)
Théâtres Reconstruction Angleterre Londres.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Whitfield, William (Architect), speaker
Lyle, David (Architect), speaker
Walsh, David (Architect), speaker
Mason, Red (Architect), speaker
Shippen, Clive, speaker
Campbell, Duncan (Engineer), speaker
Clarke, John (Quantity surveyor), speaker
Godden, Jerry, speaker
Pearce, Gary (Management contractor), speaker.
Courtenay, Julian, speaker

Savoy Theatre, London