the gramophone at
the old vinyl factory
The Gramophone is a new world class cultural, creative and community hub for Hayes featuring an independent multiplex cinema, live music venue and an interactive exhibition gallery sitting at the heart of The Old Vinyl Factory masterplan. Our project for the Really Local Group celebrates the site’s unique heritage as the former headquarters of EMI and His Master’s Voice - a key part of music history.
On the site of the 18-acre EMI record plant, where groundbreaking records by The Beatles and Pink Floyd were pressed, a one-of-a-kind neighbourhood is taking shape. The Old Vinyl Factory is a mix of re-imagined Art Deco office buildings, new homes, innovation and educational hubs, restaurants, shops, gym, cinema and a live music venue led by regeneration developer U+I.
The Gramophone will retain key elements of the former pressing plant building, an iconic industrial component of the global music trade, where grooves were stamped onto heated vinyl, producing millions of records that shipped around the world with the famous words printed on the sleeve: ‘EMI Records, Hayes, Middlesex, England’.
Our proposals for the building include; a four screen cinema, community spaces, EMI archive and interactive exhibition and a listening café/bar. The project has received a £1.2m funding boost from the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund.
Preserving and adapting a forgotten space
“Not only do we want to support new and interesting businesses such as this independent cinema and community space but we want the people who live and work in this new part of London to be excited about their neighbourhood and what it has to offer. The Gramophone will add to the buzz at The Old Vinyl Factory and we can’t wait for them to open the doors.”
THE FUTURE IS LOCAL
The clients for The Gramophone are the Really Local Group (Hayes). Their vision is to create spaces and places that act as community hubs -more than just cinemas.
Their first project is at Catford Mews in South East London, this video summarises their vision to restore cultural infrastructure through the regeneration and renewal of the UK’s high streets.
The Gramophone will be the first purpose-built new community building within the Really Local Group’s portfolio.
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SCREEN
CINEMA
The first in Hayes for over 70 years and a new cultural hub for the area
GLA
GOOD GROWTH FUNDING
Supporting innovative, best practice regeneration proposals
emi
INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
celebrating the heritage and history of the site to create its new identity
The Gramophone is the last piece and crowning jewel of The Old Vinyl Factory masterplan by U+I. [Video credit with kind permission from Studio Egret West - masterplan urban designers and landscape architects]
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