artistic director of the National Theatre says plans neighboring places will be "irreparable harm" to the theater stage
Neighbors
at war, but this time the controversial extension no ordinary conservatory, but in a piece of glass large enough for a symphony orchestra.
one hand, the director of the National Theatre, Sir Nicholas Hytner, has launched a scathing attack on the ? 120m redevelopment plans proposed by the Southbank Centre next, led by artistic director Jude Kelly.
Hytner said operators Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery threaten to launch its theaters in the shade, demolition popular view of the river and, perhaps more significantly, allowing commercial ambitions outweigh compliance of cultural heritage.
Hytner made their concerns over a slow fire to 2,683 words formal objection complains that the plan will hurt the founding values ??of the National Theatre and unneighbourly drive a wedge into the heart of the largest concentration of arts centers the scene in Europe.
The lawsuit was filed this week in the London Borough of Lambeth, who will vote on the project this fall. He says "irreparable harm" will be held in the National Theatre The Grade II * listed buildings designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, and warns that "night vision London firm" across the Thames is threatened. Hytner said National noted with growing concern about the plans, which are topped with a glass box repetition "upscaling and dominant" with a space for a large orchestra and choir. A new building Hytner seems to consider art equivalent center of a leylandii hedge to block out light and spoil the view, he said.
Southbank
Executive Director, Alan Bishop, describes the format of a National "tone quite robust, but that is a normal tone of Nick Hytner," noting that the National Director was invited to several meetings consultation, but did not attend. Hytner says also raised no problems with it before the filing of the complaint, although the National said two board members did. Southbank Centre said in a polite but difficult, challenging directly some of the claims of his neighbor and is committed to moving forward with a plan which he considers vital to the continued success of all arts.
"We have very friendly relations with our neighbors next door, so we were sad that they are so worried," said the bishop. "We are working on this issue very carefully and we know that we can not make everyone happy, but we have 27 million people pass through the site [each year] and we must try to balance the needs of others and those of our neighbors. 're going to hear, but if we continue to do what we proposed in the first place. "
Attack
Hytner said the scale of the building was "not dictated only by the cultural value, but also the business ... So, in fact, the volume of the building which obstructs the view of the National Theatre is largely dictated by the income it generates. "
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