Edinburgh: Usher Hall
Quotations have replaced events posters during lockdown.
This image was taken during the Covid-19 pandemic and phase one of moving out of lockdown in Scotland.
www.gov.scot/news/route-map-for-moving-out-of-lockdown/
Grade A listed concert hall on Lothian Road, Edinburgh. Foundation stone laid in 1911 by George V and Queen Mary.
The Usher Hall opened in March 1914 and was gifted as a music hall to the city of Edinburgh by Andrew Usher one of the three founders of the North British Distillery. It was designed by architects James Stockdale Harrison and Howard H Thomson of Leicester.
The hall is a three-storey building in a Beaux Arts style in a horseshoe form and was designed to seat 3,000. Its construction used advanced concrete methods for the time. It has a saucer dome with a steel frame clad in copper. Darney sandstone with the ground floor in Kemnay granite.
Refurbishment and new entrance extension designed by LDN Architects (2007-10).
www.usherhall.co.uk/about/history
Listing: portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB27780
Usher: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/usher-hall-edinburgh
www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2752
Design plan: www.scottishconstructionnow.com/5186/lost-architectural-d...
Edinburgh: Usher Hall
Quotations have replaced events posters during lockdown.
This image was taken during the Covid-19 pandemic and phase one of moving out of lockdown in Scotland.
www.gov.scot/news/route-map-for-moving-out-of-lockdown/
Grade A listed concert hall on Lothian Road, Edinburgh. Foundation stone laid in 1911 by George V and Queen Mary.
The Usher Hall opened in March 1914 and was gifted as a music hall to the city of Edinburgh by Andrew Usher one of the three founders of the North British Distillery. It was designed by architects James Stockdale Harrison and Howard H Thomson of Leicester.
The hall is a three-storey building in a Beaux Arts style in a horseshoe form and was designed to seat 3,000. Its construction used advanced concrete methods for the time. It has a saucer dome with a steel frame clad in copper. Darney sandstone with the ground floor in Kemnay granite.
Refurbishment and new entrance extension designed by LDN Architects (2007-10).
www.usherhall.co.uk/about/history
Listing: portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB27780
Usher: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/usher-hall-edinburgh
www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2752
Design plan: www.scottishconstructionnow.com/5186/lost-architectural-d...