Expert: FRANCIS LYNCH - 6/7/2009

Question
Hello.
I would like to find out who designed and manufactured the tent structure in Kensington Gardens in which Peter Pan is currently being produced. I'm British by birth but live in the US and am President of the Board of a summer stock theatre company.  We are looking to build a similar structure.  Any help you can give me would be very helpful.

Thank you so much,
Katherine

Answer
Hello Katherine,

This took some tracking down...

Hope its helpful

Best Wishes  Francis


The theatre pavilions have been created by architect Teresa
Hoskyns and the two leading European manufacturers in this field.
The imposing external structures will be visible from afar, drawing
audiences and enveloping them in the magical experience even
before they arrive. With 1100 tiered seats in the main auditorium,
the total audience will enjoy unimpeded views, all within close
proximity to the stage. Drama, atmosphere, comfort, optimum leg
room, excellent acoustics and charming outdoor spaces for
congregating prior to and after the show have been the key themes
guiding the design process.


Teresa HOSKYNS

Teresa Hoskyns is an architectural designer, part-time lecturer and currently working on a part-time PhD by practice at the Barlett on the general theme of democracy and public space. Where political activism is becoming the basis for her architectural practice.
Publications include; Taking Place, Public Art Journal 2000. The Empty Place of Power, Scroope 2002, and more recently
-Designing the Agon; Questions on space, architecture and “the Political”, Catalogue of exhibition, Making Things Public - eds. Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, (MIT Press 2005)
-City/Democracy: Retrieving Citizenship in Architecture and Participation, eds. Peter Blundell Jones, Jeremy Till and Doina Petrescu. (New York, Spon Press 2005)