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摘要

Perhaps only in the 1960s would anyone have placed a gymnasium, squash courts, snooker halls and a series of rowing tanks above a theatre auditorium ... and then surrounded it on three sides by a university, with a student refectory squeezed in underneath for good measure. Such is the structural stranglehold by which London's Bloomsbury Theatre finds itself constrained - one that an ambitious new £12m refurbishment scheme by Nicholas Hare Architects has now done its best to unlock.