Project to mark 75 years of the Southbank Centre
Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to design a £10m refurbishment of Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank.
The Stirling Prize-winning practice will work with the Southbank Centre on plans to undertake infrastructure repairs at the grade I-listed arts venue, which was built for the Festival of Britain in 1951.
The works will focus on replacing ageing fabric to improve thermal performance and energy efficiency, acoustic performance and long-term resilience, according to the practice.
The appointment follows the award of £10m in funding from the Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is part of a wider series of projects marking the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary.
Other projects include Woods Bagot’s retrospective exhibition on 50 years of skateboarding in the undercroft space of Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The exhibition, called Skate 50, opened this week and will run until 21 June.
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