Birmingham Hippodrome
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Hurst Street frontage
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The reconstruction of a classic lyric theatre with a striking facade and improved facilities for audiences and employees
The Birmingham Hippodrome is an independent theatre and the home of Birmingham Royal Ballet and Dance X’change.
The development was designed with the objective of strengthening and extending the Hippodrome’s position through enhanced provision for its audiences, actors, dancers, musicians and staff.
The Centenary Development builds on the theatre’s 1,900 seat auditorium and stage house and includes a new 200 seat studio theatre, dance studios, new front of house, facilities and centre for the treatment and research of dance injuries, a new rear stage area.
Data
- Begun: Apr 1999
- Completed: Oct 2001
- Floor area: 12,945m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £18.2M
- Funding: Arts Lottery
- Tender date: Dec 1998
- Procurement: JCT 80, Private with Quantities up to and including Amendment
- Address: Hurst Street, West Midlands, Birmingham, B5 4TB, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Associated Architects, LDN Architects
- Project architects: Colin Ross, Graeme Massie, Graham Hall, Jeremy Turner, Julian Flannery, Lizzie Hill, Lyn Horsfall, Mark Kingsley, Mark Sedgewick, Matthew Haines, Michael Hamilton, Paul Lister, Ross Cameron, Warren Jukes
- Client: The Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust
- Project manager: Elias Topping
- Quantity surveyor: E C Harris
- Structural engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Fire engineer: Buro Happold FEDRA
- Main contractor: HNG Constructor
- Planning supervisor: Associated Architects
- Public Art Consultant: PACA
- Catering Design: Interact Limited
- Acoustic engineer: Sandy Brown Associates
Suppliers
- Concrete structure: JJ Cafferkey
- Precast concrete: Melton Concrete Products
- Structural steelwork: Adstone Construction
- Mechanical: Haden Young
- Electrical: Hills Electrical
- Slate flooring: Alfred McAlpine Slate
- Floor covering installation: Tyndale Projects