The Lift

How The Lift Was Built - Link to Gallery

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The Lift is a new venue on the cutting edge of portable structure technology. Highly flexible, and an exemplar of sustainable, environmentally-friendly design, The Lift is a theatre, a concert hall, an open-air stage, an interactive billboard, a cinema, a venue for exhibitions and a public meeting space.

Designed and built in collaboration with hundreds of Londoners, The Lift is the heart of our organisation.

How The Lift Was Built

Digital designer and LIFT International Associate Roma Patel (UK) collaborated with students from Nottingham Trent University to film the process of creating a new meeting space: from initial conception to the build.

Part One

Part Two

The Lift

The Lift at Southbank Centre / Photo: Tim Mitchell

Further Reading

Rosemary Bechler's article Putney, Peckham & Pimlico: An idea whose time has come

Having My Say by Architecture Crew member April Natasha Francis

Daisy Froud's article The Potential to be Made and Remade on a Daily Basis

The Lift is supported by LTGDC