Take a look at the progress of the historic Hyde Park Picture House’s major refurbishment.
As part of a multi-million project, in collaboration with the team at the popular venue, Leeds City Council and Heritage Lottery Fund, the Edwardian cinema will see a new 52-seat basement screen created, vital restoration work and new accessible features.
Once completed, the venue will look very different both inside and out. The team has posted an update on the progress of the work at Grade II listed cinema.
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Taking to Facebook, they: “The extension is now mostly up, and the walls have been boarded out, revealing for the first time some of the new spaces inside, including the new community room on the first floor. New red brickwork will soon be going up, helping to connect the extension to the existing building.
“At the very top of the cinema, the leaning parapet above the façade has been dismounted and reconstructed with new structural ties, making it nice and vertical (and secure!). And parts of the historic brickwork around the building have been repointed, as well as other ongoing stone repairs.
“The basement cinema is also coming along nicely and we’ll soon begin to see our new second screen take shape. At this stage, the construction looks relatively straightforward but this has been one of the most complicated parts of the project until now, not only due of the extensive excavation that was required in such a confined site, but because of a clever box-in-a-box engineering solution that was devised by @buro_happold & @pageparkarchitects to prevent any sound from passing between this new screen and the existing screen above.”
We’ll keep you posted on the progress at Hyde Park Picture House and when you can visit it again. During the major works, the team has hosted events across Leeds.
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