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Corinthia Hotel London

The Corinthia Hotel London, at the corner of Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall Place in central London, is a hotel and former British Government building, located on a triangular site between Trafalgar Square and the Thames Embankment.

Not to be confused with Composite Building § Metropole Building (Hong Kong).

Corinthia London

Corinthia Hotels

London, England

Whitehall Place

1885, restored 2011

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Originally opened in 1885 as the Metropole Hotel, its location close to the Palace of Westminster and government offices in Whitehall meant it was commandeered in both world wars. After the Second World War, it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence and used as government offices until it was declared surplus to requirements and sold by Crown Estates in 2007. It was then restored as a hotel and renamed the Corinthia Hotel, a combination of hotel and residential building.

Artist in residence[edit]

Begun in 2011, Artist in Residence is a performance usually lasting one hour that takes place on several dates. Since it began the hotel has invited individual writers, theatre companies and filmmakers to respond by application. The performer is normally an artist winning a national competition. The opera Found and Lost, by artist-in-residence Emily Hall, was performed in the hotel in January and February 2016.

Official website

at the Ministry of Defence

Metropole Building