Bankside

First, that there shall be about the city two houses, and no more, allowed to serve for the use of the common stage-plays; of the which houses, one [the Globe] shall be in Surrey, in that place which is commonly called the Bankside, or thereabouts; and the other [the Fortune], in Middlesex.

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

First, that there shall be about the city two houses, and no more, allowed to serve for the use of the common stage-plays; of the which houses, one [the Globe] shall be in Surrey, in that place which is commonly called the Bankside or thereabouts, and the other [the Fortune] in

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

Master Headley, remembering how ill his beloved Poppet had brooked the ferry, decided to keep to the south of the river by a causeway across Lambeth marsh, which was just passable in high and dry summers, and which conducted them to a raised road called Bankside, where they looked across to the towers of Westminster, and the Abbey in its beauty dawned on the imagination of Stephen and Ambrose.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Headley, remembering how ill his beloved Poppet had brooked the ferry, decided to keep to the south of the river by a causeway across Lambeth marsh, which was just passable in high and dry summers, and which conducted them to a raised road called Bankside, where they looked across to the towers of Westminster, and the Abbey in its beauty dawned on the imagination of Stephen and Ambrose.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

But the new house, which was built out of its materials on the "Bankside," was the celebrated "Globe," the name of which is inseparably connected with that of Shakespeare.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

The owners opened a second space in 2009: Wapping Project Bankside, a round yellow warehouse opposite Tate Britain, which concentrates on photography and film.

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The cavernous old underground oil tanks beneath Tate Modern, the former Bankside power station, are due to reopen as performance and installation spaces in time for the Olympics.

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Though in fact, one might contend that Stirk buildings – such as the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, and Neo Bankside, a new apartment block next to Tate Modern – tend to be somewhat orthogonal; Harbour's buildings, such as Madrid airport, more expressive and sculptural.

Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour 2012

Tate ModernBankside, London SE1 9TG, 020-7887 8888The 25,000 books in the former Bankside power station's three shops celebrate every aspect of contemporary art and modernism, from 1900 through to the present day.

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In 1599, when a new theatre on Bankside was needed, James Burbage and his colleagues simply pulled down their old theatre and used the materials to build a virtual replica, which they called the Globe.

British architecture: The English Renaissance 2011