The Shed is a temporary venue for the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. It will give the NT a third auditorium while the Cottesloe is closed for a year during the NT Future redevelopment.
Conceived by Haworth Tompkins and theatre consultants Charcoalblue, it was then designed and built in little more than a year, a collaborative process between the building designers, the National Theatre, and theatre-makers who will work in the space, in a way that more closely resembled a theatre show than a conventional construction project.