A growing architecture practice is transforming a former Newcastle nightclub into its new head office after buying the historic building.
John Dobson House on New Bridge Street west was once the family home of celebrated Tyneside architect John Dobson, the designer behind Central Station who worked with Richard Grainger to create much of the city centre in the 19th Century. But the building will be better known to several generations of Geordies for providing part of the home to a number of popular night spots including Ikon, Liquid and Tiffany’s.
In the 1920s an adjoining dance hall helped to create the Oxford Galleries ballroom, and in more recent times it was reborn as Tiffany’s, The Studio, Ritzy, Ikon, Central Park, Diva, Liquid/Envy and Club LQ. Now the neoclassical building, designed and built by John Dobson himself in 1823, is coming full circle to provide a base for the current generation of designers as the head office for GT3 Architects.
