Malmö Stadsteater has reopened following a five-year refurbishment by Haworth Tompkins architects and White Arkitekter. The project, for the Malmö Stadsteater team and Malmö City Council, will welcome new audiences and communities into the 120 year old former circus venue. A refurbished flexible format auditorium creates an intimate performance space with potential for boundless theatrical creativity, merging the raw energy of new architectural elements with the historic shell of the original circus amphitheatre. The auditorium is connected to the street by a new link building that part-covers an existing courtyard providing an informal events space as well as an inviting route between a new theatre street entrance, café & workshop space and the refurbished theatre foyers. All these design moves aim to express the values of porosity, conviviality, provisionality and artistic permissiveness.
Artistic Director Kitte Wagner said: “For many, it has been clear that Malmö Stadsteater needed to solve very fundamental challenges in our listed theatre, an historic hippodrome. Yet none of us saw the way forward until we met the architects of Haworth Tompkins. Despite the pandemic and the physical distance, they never felt far away. With White, they worked consistently to bring redemption to a fantastic theatre, to give back to the people of Malmö a house that is open, warm, democratic and without barriers a place we can all visit and feel welcome in."
A planning application has been submitted for the redevelopment of St Botolph’s Quarter in central Colchester, marking a key milestone in the city’s wider regeneration plans.
AJ Architecture & NLA Awards Shortlists for The Warburg Institute, Pembroke Mill Lane, Cambridge & Blackwall Reach.
Our client Hadley Property Group has submitted a hybrid planning application for the transformation of 980 Great West Road in Brentford, west London. The scheme reimagines the prominent GSK House site along the M4 corridor not only as a vibrant new community, but as a model for regenerative, circular development and long term social value.
A new cultural heart will emerge in the city as Kouvola Theatre is transformed into a stunning and more versatile venue.
Malmö Stadsteater HippodromenThe renovation of the Malmö Stadsteater Hippodromen has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards in the Restoration/Renovation category.
Pembroke Mill Lane, Cambridge, has been shortlisted in the Education and Refurbishment categories at the 2025 Brick Awards.
Haworth Tompkins has submitted applications for planning and listed building consent for a phased Masterplan for the Grade I listed De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
Work has started on site for the new Studio Theatre at the Hexagon, Reading.
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