Set within Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside, the venue at 21 New Globe Walk is home to Swan, a bar, restaurant and events space on the south bank of the Thames. Standing beside the reconstructed Globe Theatre, it looks across the river towards St Paul's Cathedral and the City, with a riverside terrace and large windows making the most of the view. The restaurant serves modern British food built around seasonal produce, alongside afternoon tea, weekend brunch and Sunday roasts, with a bar offeri.....

Overlooking the Museum of the Future in central Dubai, 25hours Hotel One Central is a design-led hotel beside the Dubai World Trade Centre and close to the Dubai International Financial Centre. Opened in December 2021, it was the first 25hours hotel in the Middle East and the brand's first property outside Europe, developed and owned by Dubai World Trade Centre and operated by Ennismore. The building's architecture is by Hopkins Architects, with interiors by the design firm Woods Bagot built a.....

Opened in February 2007 by the then president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi is the largest exhibition and convention venue in the Middle East, on Khaleej Al Arabi Street in the capital. Designed by the international architecture firm RMJM, the centre offers more than 150,000 square metres of combined indoor and outdoor event space, built to host major trade shows, conferences and public exhibitions. At its core sit a series of interconnected exhibition halls, s.....

Opened in October 1977 as the first purpose-built centre of its kind in Britain, the African Caribbean Centre in Toxteth served for decades as a focal point for Liverpool's Black community. Plans were first put forward in 1972, and after a two-year campaign approval came in 1974 with an Urban Aid grant funding the building work. Known locally as the Merseyside Caribbean Centre, it stood on land off Upper Parliament Street and operated for some forty years as a community space, hosting family ev.....

At the heart of the Cheshire town of Alsager for more than fifty years, Alsager Civic is a community and events centre on Lawton Road that has recently been completely refurbished. The building serves as a versatile venue for private, commercial and community events, and is also where Alsager Town Council meets. Its Main Hall is a large space with a capacity of around 300 in a theatre layout, fitted with a sprung dance floor, a stage with modern sound and lighting systems, a stocked and staffed.....

Billed as Manchester's first hobby house, Altogether Otherwise is a community-led creative space in the NOMA neighbourhood, housed in a former disused printing works on Hanover Street known as the Avery building. It is built around the idea of doing creative things purely for enjoyment, offering an escape from results-driven routine. The space is home to a wide array of clubs that anyone can join, most of them free, ranging from wool weaving, pottery and woodwork to gardening, cooking and readi.....

Arboretum is an independent private members' club and co-working space at 2A Charing Cross Road, between Leicester Square and Covent Garden in central London. Opened in 2019, it markets itself as a calm, nature-themed sanctuary for professionals -- an 'ecological oasis' with planting throughout, including a living green wall -- rather than a conventional nightclub. Day to day it functions as a workspace, with two co-working lounges, phone booths, meeting rooms, a coffee bar and a boutique gym, .....

ARTCH Studios is a multi-use studio and event space in the centre of Preston, Lancashire, occupying three converted railway arches plus an outdoor yard at 22-24 Gradwell Street, off Marsh Lane. The brainchild of Prestonian events creative Mark Walsh, it was conceived as a flexible, community-focused hub for the arts - described by its founders as bringing "a little bit of Shoreditch energy" to Preston. The venue offers three "black-box" blank-canvas studios of varying sizes, theatrically draped.....

Artista Cafe and Gallery is a small independent arts venue in The Lanes, the warren of narrow shopping streets in central Brighton, a short walk from the seafront and the Royal Pavilion. Part cafe-bar, part gallery, it functions chiefly as an intimate events space with a relaxed, front-room feel. Its programme is broad for its size, taking in art exhibitions, live music, theatre, poetry and storytelling, but it is best known for comedy: the venue hosts The Secret Comedy Club several nights a we.....

Housed in a flamboyant former Odeon cinema, Athena is a multi-discipline events venue in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester, standing on the corner of Queen Street and Rutland Street. The building was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by Robert Arthur Bullivant for Oscar Deutsch's Odeon Theatres and opened on 28 July 1938 with a screening of A Slight Case of Murder, originally seating more than 2,100 patrons across its stalls and circle. Its terracotta facade, hand-moulded at the Doulton w.....