Fizz and a full house: the curtain rises on Hackney Wick’s reconstructed Yard Theatre
After a year-long transformation, The Yard Theatre has reopened its doors with its most ambitious season yet, including a reimagining
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‘Icon for local people’: Sadler’s Wells East wins RIBA National Architecture Award 2026
Sadler’s Wells East, a performance space dedicated to dance, was one of 32 buildings around the UK to be granted
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Plans for Whitechapel’s Nags Head strip club to become a five-storey boutique hotel
The venue, previously found in breach of licensing rules following an undercover operation, is set to be transformed into a
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Bumper birthday present: Rich Mix secures £2.2m as it marks its twentieth anniversary
Funding has been awarded to Rich Mix, the charity-run arts centre and cinema in Shoreditch, for a major ground-floor redevelopment
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Stratford East, the Victorian east London theatre, receives £1.75m grant for refurbishment
One of east London’s most important and historic theatres, Stratford East, will receive grant funding to restore its Grade-II listed
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R-Urban gets permission to create gardens, studios, and a sauna on Teviot Estate
A block of garages and parking spaces on the Teviot Estate in Poplar can be turned into studio workspaces and
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Floating theatre ‘at risk’ from Marsh Wall tower plans in the Isle of Dogs
Objections warn that a proposed 54-storey tower at Marsh Wall could block access to the floating arts centre, Theatreship, and
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LIDO days cancelled to protect Victoria Park forcing CMAT and Bombay Bicycle Club to drop out
Headliners CMAT and Bombay Bicycle Club will no longer feature as the 3-day June event has been moved to a
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JP Morgan to be given tax break to build new Canary Wharf headquarters
After announcing plans for a new headquarters at Riverside South in Canary Wharf last November, JP Morgan Chase has now
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Water could return to the Tower of London moat after over 175 years
The moat, which was drained in the 1840s, would see the addition of ponds, wetlands, meadows and grassland areas under
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Underground toilets in Spitalfields to become wine bar under council plans
Disused Victorian public toilets on Leyden Street could be converted into a wine bar under plans submitted by Tower Hamlets
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Idea Store Canary Wharf reopens after £1.4m refurbishment
Canary Wharf’s Idea Store library and learning space has been given a £1.4m refurbishment, including building upgrades and a new
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