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Revamp for Odeon

Postby pingu » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:09 am

Odeon revamp plan
A CINEMA and former music venue in Glasgow that once hosted performances by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix is expected to be bought in a multimillion-pound move that will see it turned into offices.

Most of the old Odeon cinema and Paramount music venue, which opened in 1934, is expected to be sold to two developers for £5 million in the coming days. Mountgrange and Prupim, the firms behind the plan, are expected to convert the art deco building before the end of 2014.

In the 1960s, as the Paramount, it was one of the hottest venues around. Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney and Cliff Richard played there at its peak.

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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby RDR » Sat Sep 29, 2012 5:48 pm

pingu wrote:Odeon revamp plan
A CINEMA and former music venue in Glasgow that once hosted performances by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix is expected to be bought in a multimillion-pound move that will see it turned into offices.

Most of the old Odeon cinema and Paramount music venue, which opened in 1934, is expected to be sold to two developers for £5 million in the coming days. Mountgrange and Prupim, the firms behind the plan, are expected to convert the art deco building before the end of 2014.

In the 1960s, as the Paramount, it was one of the hottest venues around. Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney and Cliff Richard played there at its peak.

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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/new-era-beckons-for-odeon-building.18995271



Given the amount of empty office space in the city centre and the problems just letting them, you do wonder if another set of empty offices is what we need?
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby An Taigh Sear 14 » Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:52 pm

RDR wrote:
pingu wrote:Odeon revamp plan
A CINEMA and former music venue in Glasgow that once hosted performances by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix is expected to be bought in a multimillion-pound move that will see it turned into offices.

Most of the old Odeon cinema and Paramount music venue, which opened in 1934, is expected to be sold to two developers for £5 million in the coming days. Mountgrange and Prupim, the firms behind the plan, are expected to convert the art deco building before the end of 2014.

In the 1960s, as the Paramount, it was one of the hottest venues around. Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney and Cliff Richard played there at its peak.

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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/new-era-beckons-for-odeon-building.18995271



Given the amount of empty office space in the city centre and the problems just letting them, you do wonder if another set of empty offices is what we need?

A good lick of paint would certainly be a start. Good to see something done at last.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Mori » Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:07 am

Revised application for the old Odeon building from GM Architects. :)



11/01543/DC | Partial demolition of vacant cinema (brick auditorium only) and erection of mixed office/commercial development, including business (Class 4) with ancillary retail (Class 1), financial professional and other services (Class 2) and food and drink (Class 3), operating premises licence and formation of basement car parking with associated ground engineering and public realm works and temporary use of cleared site as public realm/events space, including associated ground engineering, hard and soft landscaping works including use of recycled materials, erection of selective screen hoardings with graphics, formation of temporary kiosk (retail/ticket space) and installation of two x 7.5 metre high back projection screens (pvc perforated mesh on sub frame scaffold base fames). | Site At 52-62 Renfield Street Glasgow


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An option for the rear of the building once demoilished if there is no development in the near future.

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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Josef » Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:19 am

Mori wrote:Revised application for the old Odeon building from GM Architects. :)



11/01543/DC | Partial demolition of vacant cinema (brick auditorium only) and erection of mixed office/commercial development, including business (Class 4) with ancillary retail (Class 1), financial professional and other services (Class 2) and food and drink (Class 3), operating premises licence and formation of basement car parking with associated ground engineering and public realm works and temporary use of cleared site as public realm/events space, including associated ground engineering, hard and soft landscaping works including use of recycled materials, erection of selective screen hoardings with graphics, formation of temporary kiosk (retail/ticket space) and installation of two x 7.5 metre high back projection screens (pvc perforated mesh on sub frame scaffold base fames). | Site At 52-62 Renfield Street Glasgow


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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby bAzTNM » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:14 pm

Traffic will be absolutely horrendous.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby robertpool » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:38 am

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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Bingo Bango » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:12 am

You should have seen it internally this time last year.

The long corridor that runs down parallel with West Regent Street was covered in white mould - carpets, walls, ceiling. It was absolutely vile.

The basement plant area was shin deep in water with dead pigeons floating around in the brown oily water.

The place was an absolute mess, and to top it all off there was a load of asbestos dumped under one of the theatres! :evil:
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby urbainespion » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:58 pm

Bingo Bango wrote:You should have seen it internally this time last year.

The long corridor that runs down parallel with West Regent Street was covered in white mould - carpets, walls, ceiling. It was absolutely vile.

The basement plant area was shin deep in water with dead pigeons floating around in the brown oily water.

The place was an absolute mess, and to top it all off there was a load of asbestos dumped under one of the theatres! :evil:


Any sly photos per chance? :!:
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Bingo Bango » Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:58 pm

Nope! Sorry - too busy trying not to puke to hold the camera straight.

Was in working so no time to shoot pictures sadly.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby dazza » Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:40 pm

urbainespion wrote:Any sly photos per chance? :!:


Some photos here.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Vinegar Tom » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:46 pm

dazza wrote:Some photos here.


Thanks for that Dazza.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby The Egg Man » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:34 pm

I'm astonished at the extent to which the interior has fallen apart in just a few years.
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Bingo Bango » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:32 am

Too many parts of the envelope were left open to the weather when the place shut.

Entire rooms chanelling water from the roof through the building. Doors not shutting correctly. There was a flue of some sort near to the front of the art deco building that channelled rain water from there to the very lowest point of the basement.

It is all too common to see a total lack of care as soon as a place closes - owner doesnt care, doesnt let anyone else in, place goes tits up. Sad

I am amazed the guy in the link there went in with no mask on - the place is riddled with spores, and as I said, asbestos sheets. Now they hadn't been disturbed, but why take the chance?
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Re: Revamp for Odeon

Postby Gerry_R » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:00 am

A friend of mine was in the old Odeon a couple of weeks ago and took over 200 pics of the place, she's posted them on her facebook so if I can get a few i can post them

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