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Kingswest Centre

Photo:Architect's model of the building

Architect's model of the building

From the private collection of Trevor Chepstow

Architect's model
By Trevor Chepstow

This architect's model shows the proposed new complex to be built at the bottom of West Street by Top Rank in the mid-sixties. The 'Kingswest', as it was called, was to house a multi cinema complex, bars and an ice rink. This section shows the aspect from West Street and a rear view from Little Russell Street.

Sent to the website via the contribution form on 13-11-03
This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Was never going to be popular in a country that rejects any form of modernism, despite it being as ambitious, expensive, well designed and 'modern' as the cinemas it replaced. The people for whom it was built, the audiences of the 70's (rather than the audiences of the 40's and 50's), actually quite liked it.

By G Walters (26/11/2007)

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