Riverside Studios

• Theatre ID
  2790
• Built / Converted
  1973
• Dates of use
  • 1973: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Arts Centre
• Address
  Crisp Road, Hammersmith & Fulham, London, W6 9RL, England
• Websites
  • Riverside Studios
  • Riverside Story

Details

The building is a former late-Victorian foundry with a tower chimney, a rectangular brick building of two storeys which ambles from Crisp Road to the bank of the Thames near Hammersmith Bridge. Converted to a film studios in the late 1930s, it was taken over by the BBC a decade later and major TV series were born within. In 1973 the studios opened as a council-funded arts centre with three performance spaces to which a cinema was added in 1987. In 1994 the complex was refurbished and modernised by Burrell Foley Fisher into the present arrangement of the 500-seat Studio 1, very suitable for dance, the 400-seat Studio 2 and a 156-seat Studio 3. All are receiving studios, and available for hire for film, TV, performance, rehearsal and general use. The cinema is an important attraction, and bar-cafes and restaurant areas intermingle with the studios allowing the complex to maintain the endearing, meandering quality of its origin as an industrial premises.

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• Events
  • Owner/Management: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, owner
  • 1900 Design/Construction: as foundry (architect unknown).
  • 1930 - 1939 Alteration: conversion to film studios (architect unknown).
  • 1973 Use: continuing
  • 1973 Design/Construction: converted to arts centre (architect unknown).
  • 1973 Owner/Management: Riverside Trust, lessee
  • 1994 Alteration: refurbishment and enlargement of studios; new box-office/reception.
    • Burrell Foley Fisher - Architect
• Capacities
  • Later: 1973: Studio One 400 Studio Two 250 Studio Three 200
  • Current: S1 500; S2 400; S3 156
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed