Technical

How we designed a candlelit timber theatre and met 21st-century fire regs

By Oliver Heywood2014-01-16T08:00:00

The candle-lit wooden Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe

Allies & Morrison was lead architect on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse which opens this week at the Globe. Associate director Oliver Heywood explains how they tackled the fire risk

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