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MAJOR NEW CULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER TODAY
28 April 2008
Kings Place Computer Generated Images © Miller Hare, 2008

Kings Place, designed by leading architects Dixon Jones, a major new development
which brings together world-class arts facilities, outstanding office
accommodation and waterside bars, restaurants and event spaces, was officially
handed over today. The innovative waterside building is only 150m from
Kings Cross and the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link and is part of
one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Europe. It will open
on 1 October 2008 with a special five-day festival of concerts and exhibitions
to celebrate a new cultural space for London. To mark the handover, a
Steinway Concert Grand piano will be delivered to the building today.

Kings Place will provide new offices for Guardian Newspapers Ltd as well
as headquarters for two orchestras, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment.

The development includes Londons first concert hall to be built
since the Barbican Concert Hall over 25 years ago in 1982, a 420-seat
auditorium. Kings Place also offers a 200-seat flexible space for concerts
and conferences, practice rooms, teaching rooms, rehearsal rooms and a
green room. Spaces for the visual arts include an art gallery, one of
the UKs largest sculpture spaces and a working sculpture studio.
Arup Acoustics have worked with architects Dixon Jones, providing specialist
consultancy. Public facilities will include restaurants and bars by Green
& Fortune as well as outstanding waterside spaces for conferences
and private events.

The developers, Parabola Land, have established the Kings Place Music
Foundation (KPMF) to manage and operate the music space and to carry out
an ambitious outreach programme. KPMF in association with the London
Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Academy
of Music, the Kings Place Sculpture Residency and Pangolin London
- will provide accessible music and arts to the local community, developing
close relationships with local residents, schools and organisations.
Kings Place London - images / text from Dixon Jones Architects 280408
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