http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Filmhouse - Recent Posts en Tue, 19 May 2026 00:59:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-374222 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:03:12 +0000 gembo 374222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is a weird square isn’t it. I went around the edge and over the ramp to Rutland Square which was designed as houses with a central garden . Mostly offices and the arts club now but still a square. </p> <p>Westminster funds Filmhouse. Oooooh err Missus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-374217 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:31:50 +0000 chdot 374217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2024/03/new-levelling-up-funding-makes-filmhouse-opening-a-reality/" rel="nofollow">https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2024/03/new-levelling-up-funding-makes-filmhouse-opening-a-reality/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-365312 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 23:27:53 +0000 chdot 365312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>2 years on things look strangely different.</p> <p>Just Covid? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-333821 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:37:54 +0000 davecykl 333821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I didn't realise that they had made so many previous alternative proposals over the years!</p> <p>Their website says that the proposed building is likely to cost £50M, which seems a more realistic price to me, with memories of another complex building to the east of the city centre still in mind…</p> <p>"We will need financial support from a wide range of partners to make this project possible, including philanthropists, charitable grants and trusts, public bodies, businesses and public donations. </p> <p>Full costing of the project will take place later in 2020 to coincide with our formal Planning Application, but we estimate costs to be in the region of £50m. We are in conversation with funders, but the full fundraising campaign will not be launched until we secure planning permission."</p> <p>– <a href="https://www.filmhousecinema.com/frequently-asked-questions" rel="nofollow">https://www.filmhousecinema.com/frequently-asked-questions</a></p> <p>I expect that they would have a good chance of getting financial support from the National Lottery, Creative Scotland, Europa Cinemas (possibly?), perhaps the City Council (which is keen to have a better use of Fatuous Square), and even if every cinemagoer donated a tenner that would all help contribute towards the total required. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-333815 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:27:41 +0000 mgj 333815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is about the fifth scheme that the Filmhouse has produced in 8 years. Moving to Potterow as part of the Uni, moving in with Screenprinters at Fountainbridge, taking over the Odeon Lothian Road, refurbish current building and turn screen 1 through 180 degrees. None of them have ever had the remotest chance of happening other than the Uni option. How are they going to raise £20m to build it, given that they were in significant financial troubles before Covid hit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20271#post-333786 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:13:19 +0000 davecykl 333786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Filmhouse is doing pre-consultation about their proposals for a replacement Filmhouse building in Festival Square:</p> <p><a href="https://www.filmhousecinema.com/future" rel="nofollow">https://www.filmhousecinema.com/future</a></p> <p>Survey (closes 12 July):<br /> <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TK2MRYQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TK2MRYQ</a></p> <p>Any thoughts?</p> <p>I have put this in Infrastructure as the plans sadly don't seem to take any proper account of the existing not-quite-fully-baked cycleways from Festival Square to Shandwick Place (via bridge over the WAR) and EICC/Canal (via Scottish Widows rotunda thingie), and potentially extending eastwards across Lothian Road to Usher Hall and beyond. </p> <p>The plans seem to show no access from the cycleway to south of the planned Filmhouse, and stairs (what?!!) from the north side down to Lothian Road.</p> <p>Given that Spokes had doodled drawings linking all of this up since at least sometime in the 1980s [1], would it be too much to expect so-called "proper" architects to get this right?</p> <p><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.9459/-3.2049" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.9459/-3.2049</a></p> <p>And, likewise, will the Council ever get their gardyloo together to actually destination/direction signpost these cycle routes properly?</p> <p>And, obviously, where will the cycle parking be?</p> <p>[1] those Spokes doodles were my first introduction, as a young country bumpkin, to the idea that town planning was A Thing, and not just the random unforeseen messy results of any old ramshackle collection of unrelated and uninterested "development" proposals that the UK sadly seems to do by default…</p> <p><hr /><br /> Not so cycling related, am I the only one not very impressed at the building relegating us proles to the increasingly dank depths of the Metropolis under-city, while only the Eloi get to venture up above ground and into the sky? </p>