Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland MACQ, Images, Architects, Design Proposal, News, Plans
Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland Building
MACQ Development – Venue with multi-use auditorium, North East England, UK – design by Flanagan Lawrence
23 Feb 2017
MACQ – Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland
Planning Approval for Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland Building
Design: Flanagan Lawrence, Architects
MACQ AUDITORIUM WINS PLANNING CONSENT
Design for a new auditorium for Sunderland Music, Arts And Culture Trust has been granted planning approval and funding this week.

Just days after Sunderland Council granted planning permission for the new £8.2m venue, Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded a £6m grant through the National Lottery to the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust towards the cost of the building. Construction work will begin later this year with the multi-use auditorium opening in 2019.
The new venue will be located at the heart of the city?s Music Arts and Cultural Quarter in central Sunderland. The site, at Garden Place and Dun Cow Street, is adjacent to the Fire Station, currently being redeveloped as a £3.6m arts and culture centre, with financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Project Director Jason Flanagan, comments:

?The new venue will have retractable seating for 450 and can also host 700 people standing. There will also be an outdoor stage and open area music and performance space to t...