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SOHO is a famous commercial complex that features a really unique design in Beijing, China. But to appreciate its beauty, you have to get to a higher elevation and bird-view the building. This is actually pretty hard because all the buildings nearby require ID card to get in, and even if you managed to sneak in, most of the doors to rooftop are locked.
To take this photo, I tried three different buildings before sunset and I could only get to the rooftop of one of them, but the view there was not good. Almost before I decided to head home, I tried one final building, which looks kinda old. I sneaked in following a delivery person, took the elevator to the top floor, and I saw the door to the roof was also locked. BUT, I instantly noticed that there was a really small window on the top floor facing SOHO, and the view was good there. However, the problem was that it was impossible to set up my tripod there without the window blocking part of my composition. After some struggling, I decided to shorten two legs of my tripod, put them outside the window hanging in the air. I used the middle part of those two legs and the third leg to stabilize the tripod. By doing this, I was able to put my camera outside. I took the shot holding my breath because I want to minimize the shakes. After a couple of trials, I finally got this image.
Soho Theatre (Granada), Walthamstow - the former rear stalls under the balcony, plasterwork all reinstated after the area had been split into screens 2 & 3, now a stylish bar. Opened on the 15 September 1930, designed by Cecil Masey with interiors by Theodore Komisarjevsky, and built on the enlarged site of the earlier Victoria Cinema. The Granada had 2,697 seats in stalls and balcony, with a strongly Moorish influence to the spectacular foyers and auditorium. It was tripled in 1974, with two mini cinemas under the balcony - the front stalls were removed and the stage lost live usage. The theatre was grade 2 listed in 1987 (upped to Grade 2* in 2000). Later known as ABC, MGM and EMD Cinemas, the venue closed in 2003 and was sold to a church, who were refused planning consent for change of use on several occasions. It was sold again, in a derelict state, in 2014 and parts of the building were reopened as a bar and live entertainment venue known as Mirth. In 2019, it was bought by Waltham Forest Borough Council and, in conjunction with the Soho Theatre, they began a restoration process. This saw the main auditorium restored as a 1,000 theatre, the rear stalls had the original plasterwork restored to become a unique bar, the rear of the circle, again with original features, is now a community / rehearsal room, the circle foyer is a stylish bar, and the foyers restored (with full disabled access adaptations) to original splendour. The architects for the scheme were Pilbrow & Partners, and the main contractor was Wilmott Dixon. Soho Walthamstow, as the theatre is now known, reopened in May 2025 and the theatre is now very comfortable and looks stunning, there is some of the best front-of-house space existing in a theatre, with brand-new artiste rooms and a widened stage. What it lacks is the original organs, now in storage, awaiting sufficient money (£1million+) to be restored and reinstated.
London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, London, UK - Soho Theatre (former Granada Cinema), Hoe Street
July 2025
1WTC seen from Soho. The steel structure is at 100 floors as of today (March 31,2012). Update: just learned from the Wall Street Journal that the Port Authority considers the building's structure to be at 100 floors now but this is because floors 94-99 don't exist. Despite the controversy over floor count, it's certain that the tower is now at approximately 1,240 feet high. The tower will eventually be 1,368 feet high.
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Had my first evening out in London last week since before the lock downs began, great to be out with people again, and great to see the smaller streets of Soho blocked off to traffic and the drinkers and diners reclaiming the streets, on what was a gorgeous warm evening.
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I'm tired this evening, so catching up will be slow . . .
So HK must have been such an international city that we've got SoHo (and Paris in the next pic).:-)
Elgin Street, Central