Leicester City Centre designated Leicester's new cultural quarter, and is already the site of the Leicester Creative Business Depot(built on the old Leicester City Bus depot and keeping the initials) and the Athena. The LCB Depot opened in July 2004, and by the time of its first birthday had let 37 of 55 units, with talk starting of finding an additional site. Opposite the Athena, a new flagship £60 million Curve Theatre, Leicester, designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, started construction in 2005, on a site that has been long-disused. It is planned to be ready for handover 2007 to the Haymarket company, who
Adrian Smith (architect) Adrian Smith (architect) Adrian D. Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect who has designed many notable buildings, including the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower, in Jeddah. He was the senior architect of some other recognizable buildings including Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago; Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing. Adrian Smith was born in Chicago in 1944. When he was four-years-old his family moved to Southern California where he grew-up. His interest in drawing led his mother to suggest architecture