Lip stick on a pig
So the designs are in for the refurbished Assembly Rooms. Is this lipstick on a pig or what? The 'new' Assembly Rooms in the day ... ... the 'new' Assembly Rooms at night
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The new music and performance venue has been cancelled
The new music and performance venue to replace the Assembly Rooms is now not going ahead. The Assembly Rooms before it shut down due to fire Now the Council is run by the Conservatives, they have decided that the better option is to refurbish the existing building. Going to cost about £20 million. What a farce. Over 3 years since the Assembly Rooms was closed due to the fire and now it appears we are back to square one. By all accounts the Assembly Rooms was given a wide berth by promoters who thought the sound and acoustics was poor, the venue capacity neither big or small and the layout not great for putting on a commercial show. Are all of these concerns going to be addressed in any refurbishment work? I have to admit there are some aspects to the architecture of the building that I like but ultimately the building fails in two key respects. Firstly, as a venue for performance acts, it is just crap, for the reasons mentioned earlier. And secondly, it fails enclose the ...
New music and performance venue to replace the Assembly Rooms
Concept plans have been revealed showing a new music and performance venue to replace the Assembly Rooms. Although not a full planning application yet, the Council looks serious in putting a plan together and have already got £8.6 million of funding from the D2N2 to help pay for it. The entire project will likely cost over £44 million and will see the existing Assembly Rooms and car park demolished with the new venue to have the capability to host music concerts, sports events, comedy, theatrical performances, conferences and exhibitions and be available for use by both amateur and professional groups. The Council are looking to find an operator to run the new venue so they can have input into the design of the new venue. The proposals come 3 years after the venue closed following a fire. While I am up for Derby getting a new venue, and the Assembly Rooms venue seems particularly unloved, I have my doubts at the location and the constraints of the site. For me, North ...