Architecture Update: Bull Ring cinema

AS THE South Bank Board, custodians of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, continues its deliberations over how to improve the complex (latest idea: knock down the concrete walkways and employ a famous architect to tart up what remains), the British Film Institute is going its own way with a planning application to build Britain's first giant- screen Imax cinema on the Waterloo 'Bull Ring'. This is the hole in the ground that acts as a subway link between Waterloo Station, Waterloo Bridge and surrounding streets, and is used as a campsite by the homeless. The pounds 11.5m scheme has been designed by Bryan Avery, architect of the Museum of the Moving Image, also on the South Bank.