London Trocadero
The London Trocadero is a striking historic building in Piccadilly Circus in London . The house was built in 1885 as a variety hall by James Ebenezer Saunders (1829 / 30-1909) and Richard James Worley (1856-1930) (Worley & Saunders architects) on the site of the former London Pavilion Music Hall (1859-1885).
The building is listed as a Grade II building .
It was used as a restaurant , theater and concert hall. These facilities existed until 1965. The name comes from the conquest of Trocadero in 1823.
In 1984 the building was transformed into a large, architecturally remarkable entertainment complex, then one of the largest in the country. The beverage company Pepsi became a sponsor in the late 1990s; the establishment was henceforth called Pepsi Trocadero . The video game company Sega became an anchor tenant and opened an arcade game room . Several junk souvenir shops and fast food chains like McDonald’s settled down.
Due to the interior design, the Pepsi Trocadero was advertised as a sight in numerous London travel guides at the end of the 1990s , after which the complex was heavily frequented. However, most of the visitors were only impressed by the architecture. The gambling halls and junk shops were hardly used, so that despite the high number of visitors hardly any money was left. In the 2000s, the Trocadero's star began to decline again. The building is now empty. Plans to turn the Trocadero into a hotel have not yet been implemented.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ London Trocadero , theater-architecture.eu, accessed on August 11, 2020
- ^ London Trocadero , buildington.co.uk, accessed August 11, 2020
- ↑ Entry on www.london-infoguide.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '36.8 " N , 0 ° 7' 57.9" W.