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English Theatre Buildings Designs: Architecture

post updated 12 September 2026

New Arts Developments in England, Contemporary UK Built Environment.

12 September 2026
Concordia Theatre Hinckley, Leicestershire, Central England
Design: Keith Williams Architects

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Keith Williams Architects has submitted plans to Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council for the renovation and expansion of the Concordia Theatre in Hinckley, Leicestershire. Under the title Project 2030, the proposals include:

Transformation of the auditorium, improving accessibility, comfort, seating and sightlines, while marginally increasing capacity to more than 400 seats.
Increasing the volume of the auditorium by removing the existing ceiling to reveal the building’s substantial timber industrial roof trusses, which will become a defining feature of the renewed interior.

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English Theatre Building – Latest Designs

English Cultural Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

23 Nov 2017
The Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre – The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, central England
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd

Entrance – photo © Stewart Hemley
Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Other Place (TOP) at the RSC in Stratford upon Avon began in the 1970s as a small new writing studio theatre in a tin shed. It was rebuilt as a brick building in the 1980s and in 2005 Ian Ritchie Architects designed the temporary 1040 seat Courtyard Theatre adjacent to the brick “TOP”.

22 Jun 2017
LiveWorks Newcastle, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle, Northeast England
Design: Flanagan Lawrence

image courtesy of architects
LiveWorks Newcastle Theatre
This building, part of Live Theatre’s evolving cultural quarter in Newcastle upon Tyne, has been recognised with an RIBA National Award. The scheme has already received a RIBA Northeast Regional Award, the RIBA NorthEast Conservation Award and the RIBA Northeast Client of the Year Award. The National Award was announced yesterday.

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English theatre building in 2015

9 Mar 2015
The House in Plymouth, Plymouth University, Plymouth, Devon, southwest England
Design: Burwell Deakins Architects

photograph © Christopher Heaney
The House in Plymouth
Completion of a new £4.3m performing arts centre building for Plymouth University, located on its city centre campus.

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UK Arts architecture in 2015

15 Jul 2013
400 Hall Theatre, Derbyshire, northern England
Design: Avery Associates

photo : Tim Soar
Avery Associates Architects’ new 400 Hall Theatre at Repton School has won a Royal Institute of British Architects East Midlands Regional Award, and its Building of the Year Award, the top prize for the region. Last year, it won the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Design and Innovation Award and the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists Gold Award for Technical Excellence.

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England Arts Property Update in 2012

13 Jun 2012
New Chester Theatre Building, Northwest England
Design: Bennetts Associates Architects
Chester Theatre Building
The award-winning team behind the transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world-famous home at Stratford-upon-Avon is to provide the concept design of Chester’s new theatre. Council chiefs today (Wednesday) raised the curtain on a star cast assembled to produce a guiding vision for the Borough’s £38m showpiece. Bennetts Associates Architects – one of the UK’s leading architectural practices – will work on the concept design, supported by specialist theatre consultants Charcoalblue and multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold.

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English Theatre Buildings

Contemporary Theater Designs in England, British cultural property alphabetical:

Curve – Leicester Theatre & Performing Arts Centre
2008
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects

photo : Peter Cook/View
Curve Theatre

Plymouth Theatre Royal, Devon, southwest England
2003
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects

photo from Ian Ritchie Architects
Plymouth Theatre Royal

The Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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Design: Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd

photo from Ian Ritchie Architects
RSC Courtyard Theatre