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The Glasshouse Hotel is part of the Omni Centre complex, and opened in June 2003 [10] It is located on Greenside Place, next to the Playhouse Theatre, on the edge of Edinburgh's New Town. It was built on the site of Lady Glenorchy's Free Church incorporating the façade of the church as its frontage. The hotel has 77 bedrooms (of which 20 are ...
In August 2015, Vue International acquired JT Bioscopen, the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, bringing Vue's number of sites to over 200. [13] In June 2018, Vue acquired the Irish operator Showtime Cinemas, adding a further two cinemas to their estate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, now totalling 89 cinemas. [14]
In 1958, it acquired its own base at 3 Randolph Crescent, a Georgian town house with its own cinema. [46] In 1979, it moved to the Edinburgh Filmhouse, which remained its base until its closure in 2022. Other recent venues have included Fountainpark Cineworld, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and the VUE Cinema at the Omni Centre.
The cinema building was designed by Thomas Bowhill Gibson, [5] who is also responsible for the Dominion Cinema in Morningside, Edinburgh. [6] The promoters were Messrs Scott Paulo & Company. The cost of the cinema was £20,000 and upon opening it seated 1600 people.
The south-east side of the 1988 plan was never built. The area now forms the extended pavement in front of the Omni Centre who in 2004 held a contest for a public artwork to be designed. Artist Helen Denerley's scrap metal sculpture of two giraffes, an adult and calf, was completed in June 2005. Helen nicknamed the giraffes 'Martha' and 'Gilbert'.
View of the northern section in 2014 Ocean Dining food court overlooking Western Harbour. PureGym, H&M, Boots and HMV are amongst the main shops; in total there are some shops, 6 restaurants, 3 coffee shops, a variety of bars and cafés, as well as a 12-screen Vue cinema, an urban dance studio, children's soft-play area and a day spa.
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The cinema was opened on 31 January 1938 originally seating 1300. [2] The first feature film to be screened here was Wee Willie Winkie, starring Shirley Temple. [3] The cinema, one of only three family-run cinemas in Scotland [4] [5] has only been forced to close twice. The first occasion was in September 1939, when there were fears over air ...