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Article: Royal Albert Hall withdraws from joint development
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1994
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THE Royal Albert Hall has withdrawn from the planned pounds 170m
Albertopolis development in London, under the architect Sir Norman
Foster.
The development would have reshaped the area that includes the
Hall, the Royal College of Art and the main national museums - the
Victoria and Albert, Science and Natural History.
The withdrawal of the Royal Albert Hall from the scheme,
predicted in the Independent in the spring, is the first sign of a
falling-out of arts organisations in the scramble for money from
the national lottery.
The Royal Albert Hall management still plans to go ahead with
its own scheme, which will involve lowering the street front
outside and building an elevated piazza to ...