Leeds Playhouse

摘要

When designing a theatre, you'li probably have visibility and accessibility front of mind. Unfortunately for the Leeds Playhouse, it was built with its back to its prospective audience -away from the city centre and facing a proposed development that never came to pass. That was in 1990, when the Playhouse finally moved from its 'temporary' home in Leeds University - where it had been for 20 years, to a new building designed by The Appleton Partnership. It was the UK's largest purpose-built theatre after the National Theatre, and featured a then groundbreaking design for its Courtyard Theatre, a galleried, flexible space with a retractable seating bank.