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    The Roundhouse in London underwent extensive renovations to transform the vacant Grade II* listed building into a leading arts venue. A multi-disciplinary team repaired the existing structure, reprogrammed sections, modernized the auditorium, and added new administrative spaces over many years. Key features include a top-lit galleria and glass and metal bridges connecting to the auditorium. Structural interventions were minimized to emphasize the original Victorian structure and aesthetic, while new areas have a contemporary yet sympathetic industrial detail. The renovations increased capacity and functionality without disrupting the original form. Over £30 million was spent to complete the project, revitalizing the Roundhouse and surrounding area at a fraction of the cost of a new comparable venue.

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    The Roundhouse in London underwent extensive renovations to transform the vacant Grade II* listed building into a leading arts venue. A multi-disciplinary team repaired the existing structure, reprogrammed sections, modernized the auditorium, and added new administrative spaces over many years. Key features include a top-lit galleria and glass and metal bridges connecting to the auditorium. Structural interventions were minimized to emphasize the original Victorian structure and aesthetic, while new areas have a contemporary yet sympathetic industrial detail. The renovations increased capacity and functionality without disrupting the original form. Over £30 million was spent to complete the project, revitalizing the Roundhouse and surrounding area at a fraction of the cost of a new comparable venue.

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    The Roundhouse in London underwent extensive renovations to transform the vacant Grade II* listed building into a leading arts venue. A multi-disciplinary team repaired the existing structure, reprogrammed sections, modernized the auditorium, and added new administrative spaces over many years. Key features include a top-lit galleria and glass and metal bridges connecting to the auditorium. Structural interventions were minimized to emphasize the original Victorian structure and aesthetic, while new areas have a contemporary yet sympathetic industrial detail. The renovations increased capacity and functionality without disrupting the original form. Over £30 million was spent to complete the project, revitalizing the Roundhouse and surrounding area at a fraction of the cost of a new comparable venue.

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    The Roundhouse in London underwent extensive renovations to transform the vacant Grade II* listed building into a leading arts venue. A multi-disciplinary team repaired the existing structure, reprogrammed sections, modernized the auditorium, and added new administrative spaces over many years. Key features include a top-lit galleria and glass and metal bridges connecting to the auditorium. Structural interventions were minimized to emphasize the original Victorian structure and aesthetic, while new areas have a contemporary yet sympathetic industrial detail. The renovations increased capacity and functionality without disrupting the original form. Over £30 million was spent to complete the project, revitalizing the Roundhouse and surrounding area at a fraction of the cost of a new comparable venue.

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    ROUNDHOUSE

    The transformation of the redundant Grade II* listed Roundhouse as a leading London arts venue
    required a fusion of architectural skill, historical respect, and the visionary determination of private
    and public funders over a long period - a complex and cost-sensitive design scenario. A wide range of
    architectural interventions, careful reinstatements, and newbuild have given the Roundhouse a new
    identity, made it a major player on the national arts scene – and triggered new local commercial and
    residential property development.

    The practice led a multi-disciplinary team to repair existing main fabric, re-programme sections of the
    building, modernise the auditorium, and create a three-level administrative and circulation ’girdle’.
    Key features include a top-lit galleria, connected to the auditorium by post-industrially detailed glass
    and metal bridges. The new wing allows a large section of the Roundhouse’s original facade,
    originally below ground on the sloping site, to be exposed for the first time. This accentuates the co-
    existence of historic and contemporary architecture to great effect and, with better connections to the
    streetscape, has heightened the Roundhouse’\'s contribution to the urban scene.
    Structural interventions were minimised to emphasise the Victorian building’s structure and aesthetic.
    New circulation and administrative segments are thoroughly contemporary, but detailed in sympathy
    with the building’s original industrial soul. McAslan also increased audience and specialist-use
    capacity, and the building’s functional range, without disrupting key aspects of its form.

    A particularly significant intervention concerned the railway turntable ash-pits in the Roundhouse’s
    extraordinary radial undercroft. These were cleared of tons of detritus, subjected to meticulous
    remedial work, and the installation of new services, access and circulation routes (without unduly
    disrupting the geometry of the building’s brick-built substructure). The result is the new Roundhouse
    Studios, for use by creative local youngsters. 
    There was extensive remedial work on the rafters and boarding, with a ’sprung’ acoustic mass added
    to the roof. This demanded a new steel upper structure, which supports a 20-tonne load from the new
    technical grid. The solution, by Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design, has created virtually no disruptive
    visual impact.
    Of the total £30m spend, design and construction costs for the Roundhouse scheme were below
    £20m – a fraction of the cost of an equivalent new arts venue of this versatility. One critic described
    the new Roundhouse as ’one of the most radical experiments we have yet seen in cultural interaction,
    a venture that aims to set a model for a multicultural society.’

    TYPE
    Buildings

    LOCATION
    Camden, London

    CLIENT
    Norman Trust

    SIZE
    6,600 sqm
    COST
    £30 million

    TEAM
    John McAslan + Partners, Architect
    SKM Anthony Hunt Associates, Structural Engineer Buro Happold, MEP Engineer
    Gardiner & Theobald, Cost Consultant
    Paul Gillieron, Acoustic Engineer
    Theatre Projects, Theatre Consultant
    Anne Minors Performance, Performance and Seating Consultant
    Modus Operandi, Art Consultant
    Tolent Construction, Main Contractor
    David Bonnett Associates, Access Consultant

    STATUS
    Completed 2006

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