Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh) was managed by Balfour Beatty. The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh is a multi-purpose event space, regularly hosting conferences, dinners, performances, exhibitions and weddings. The venue has two major event spaces, The Ballroom and the Music Hall, and another nine drawing rooms. The venue is decorated throughout with crystal chandeliers, gold leaf and gilt mirrors while also incorporating modern technology. Every year the Assembly Rooms are used as one of the venues for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Assembly Rooms were originally operated by the Assembly Festival group, who took their name from the building. Assembly grew from that base to
The Whalestoe Letters The Whalestoe Letters The Whalestoe Letters (2000) by cult author Mark Z. Danielewski is an epistolary novella which more fully develops the literary correspondence between Pelafina H. Lièvre and her son Johnny from 1982-1989, characters first introduced in Danielewski's prior work, "House of Leaves". The letters are included in the second edition of "House of Leaves", in Appendix II, under the name "E - The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute Letters", although the companion piece includes eleven additional letters not found in "House of Leaves". Pelafina writes these letters to Johnny from "The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute", a mental institution where