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PARK FOR

78 CARS

BOPT

CLOWES

LAV

POWER WAITING

CLERKS

LAV OFFICE

STAGE STORE

STAR STAR

GREEN WOMEN SLAY||| ROOM DRESSING

STAGE

FOYER

MANS'

DRESSING

ATA CONDITIONING PLANT

ROOM

RAISED AREA

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MEMORIAL GARDEN

L

HIGH

BLOCK

ENTRANCE HALL

Ground floor plan of the City Hall proper showing the relationship between the Concert Hall, the Central Block, the Theatre, the Garden and the High Block.

to the north.

Hall car park by way of a lobby, tories. where the lifts are situated, and the other from the Garden.

The main Entrance Foyer has

The banqueting hall is on the been planned in a spacious man-

second floor of the Central Block ner to provide an adequate area On the first floor of the Central and has been planned to accommod- where patrons can congregrate before Block is the ballroom which will ate over 500 people seated at large and after performances

in either have a sprung wood-strip floor. tables for banquets. When used for the Concert Hall or Theatre, and it The floor will be joined to the rear "dinner dances", small tables will be will be decorated in a gay, informal walls of the Concert Hall and Thea- substituted and arranged informally. manner. An important feature of tre only, the remaining north and The central area of the floor will be the foyer will be the grand staircase west external walls being free-stand- suitably sprung for dancing. There serving the upper floors of the Cen- ing, allowing freedom in the design is access from this floor to the kit- tral Block, which has been designed of the glass screen and pierced wall. chen and to the emergency exits and as a free-standing structure of an During the times when the Concert staircases. open, light and graceful character. Hall is in use, this floor will act as The foyer will serve the lower sec- a crush area for people leaving the

The Concert Hall is planned to tion of the Concert Hall, the Thea- upper section of the Hall. Entered seat 1,520 people on a stepped floor, tre and its bar. There are two sub- from the ballroom are the ballroom providing ideal viewing from all posi- sidiary entrances, one from the City bar, ladies' powder room and lava- tions. The auditorium is rectangular

SECTION C-C

SECTION D-D

SECTION A-A

Sections through the Concert Hall and the Central Block, the Central Block and the Theatre, and through the Theatre Block itself. The height and position of the High Block in relation to the Concert Hall and Central

Block is also shown.

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