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 Southbank Centre's 11 acre former estate extended from Waterloo Bridge to the London Eye | |
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| Full name | Southbank Centre |
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| Address | Belvedere Road London, SE1 United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°30′20.56″N 00°07′0.34″W / 51.5057111°N 0.1167611°W |
| Public transit |  Waterloo Waterloo |
| Owner | Southbank Centre Ltd. (registered charity, responsible to Arts Council England) |
| Designation | Unlisted |
| Type | Artistic venues: Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Purcell Room Hayward Gallery |
| Capacity | Royal Festival Hall: 2,700 Queen Elizabeth Hall: >900 Purcell Room: 370 |
| Acreage | 11 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1 May 1951 |
| Architect | Norman Engleback's team at the London County Council Architects' Department |
| Website | |
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The Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge). It is adjacent to the separately owned National Theatre, containing three theatres, and BFI Southbank, which has four cinemas and a library. Shakespeare's Globe, Tate Modern and the Millennium Bridge, are all located nearby.
The Southbank Centre comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the National Poetry Library, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room), together with the Hayward Gallery, and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracted 4.36 million visitors during 2019.[1] Over two thousand paid performances of music, dance and literature are staged at Southbank Centre each year, as well as over two thousand free events and an education programme,[2] in and around the performing arts venues. In addition, three to six major art exhibitions are presented at the Hayward Gallery yearly, and national touring exhibitions reach over 100 venues across the UK. Together with the Barbican Centre, a similar arts venue, the Southbank Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture.[3]
- ^ "Visits made in 2019". ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ "Southbank Centre 2014-2015 Annual Report" (PDF). Southbank Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ Mark Callaghan (14 November 2013). "Beauty in the Beast: In Defence of Brutalism". Architect Weekly. Retrieved 31 March 2025.