If buildings could be knighted, Royal Festival Hall (part of the Southbank Centre) definitely deserves a gong.
It's a fantastic place. Being without internet access at home at the moment, I've pretty much set up semi-permanent residence in the foyer. It's spotlessly clean, with plenty of room, a decent bar and coffee shop, and free wi-fi. Plus it's full of all kinds of interesting people, who are great fun to eavsdrop on. Today I was working next to a man who had been awarded a prize for services to Polish cinema, yesterday I overheard a group of peole who were making a music video for a musician with Downs Syndrome, asking for his feedback.
I knew it pretty well even before this week; in the past 12 months I've been there to play scrabble, shared pain, joy and chocolate with fellow NaNoWriMo-ers in the foyer, been to a couple of concerts and killed several spare hours there with a glass of wine and my laptop, catching up on emails and enjoying the view over the Thames.
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