The New Community Cinema moved from its narrow confines to the auditorium of a nearby decommissioned public school and changed its name to the Cinema Arts Centre, which is now a multiple-screen theatre that shows first-run independent and foreign films along with its repertory offerings.
The main north-south axis starts with the helipad, then includes a narrow walkway between the auditorium and north buildings, continues past the elevator kiosk to the tram station, through the rotunda, past the walls and support columns of the exhibitions pavilion, and finally the ramp besides the west pavilion and the central garden.
The wily Marquis (the tenor Andreas Conrad) walked across the auditorium on a narrow wooden rail that divided two sections of seats.
A sign in the main building invites: "Philosophical Research Society, Visitors Welcome". The PRS entrance is through a narrow corridor between the library and auditorium, which leads to a sunny, landscaped patio with stone benches and statues.
The current open auditorium will become shorter and narrower once they create a backstage area, puppet storage and a workshop.
The auditorium is shaped like a shoebox, relatively narrow, tall and long, with audience seating on multiple levels.
That's more than 100 people on the very narrow traverse stage we have built in the middle of the new auditorium.
The auditorium is nearly but not completely symmetrical, and it is long and narrow, like a classical "shoe box" hall.
Initially, nobody showed much interest in the strangers moving along narrow alleyways, looking over the high walls of the center at the large, open-air auditorium with a corrugated-iron roof.
The Clyde auditorium is linked to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and the Crowne Plaza Hotel by a series of narrow labyrinthine corridors, which are poorly signed and offer ample opportunity to get lost.
