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LondonConverting the City at the end of the week in a giant nightclub
A creative office offers to mix finance and nightlife to revive the neighborhood and allow clubs to survive.
From nightfall, even at Christmas, and more weekends, the City is deserted by all human life, or almost.
IMAGO/DreamstimeThe idea may seem a little crazy, but it arouses interest across the Channel. The Creative Cabinet Bompas & Parr, which combines architects, artists, designers and other marketing specialists, offers to install the London nightlife in La City, the business district. The idea is not to chase the costumes-ties, but to invest in public and semi-publicity places at nightfall, particularly on weekends, relates the “Guardian”.
An idea that solves two problems at once
The proposal is not lacking in meaning and solves two problems at once. Since the COVVI-19, the business district has largely emptied, its workers favoring telework on Mondays and Fridays. If he welcomes half a million employees on full boom days, only some 8,500 inhabitants remain from dark.
For its part, nightlife also suffered from the pandemic, which pushed many clubs to close. Those who stay are in mound with increasingly frequent complaints of neighbors who do not appreciate the noise.
Real threat to London nightlife
“There are discussions in progress,” confirmed the British daily Michael Kill, director general of the Association of the Night Industry. The latter is all the more seduced by the idea since, according to its estimates, its activity could disappear by 2029. Between 2013 and 2024, the number of nightclubs has already halved. It would be enough to adapt the zoning rules of the City to make possible the merger between finance and dance, underlines Michael Kill.
And as Bompas & Parr does nothing by half, the cabinet also suggests targeting the 50th and over, “the pioneer generation of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll”. A “growing market,” confirms Michael Kill. Because this generation “carried” the night industry and today feels a furious need to “get out and relive your youth”.
