HOLD fire, untwist those knickers, The Lawn Club hasn't been chopped for good.
The reshaped venue will take a 90 degree turn towards the Haig Club (formerly Long Bar) and spread over the third grass lawn.
The popular bar and restaurant has closed temporarily on the (not so green anymore) green, green grass of Spinningfields while that 60s horror-show Quay House is demolished.
Falling concrete and hairy-arsed builders doesn't make for great eating'n'drinking.
The new extended and reshaped Lawn Club - operated by Fluid Bars - should reopen in April 2015.
The Lawn Club
Quay House
In an elegy to the doomed Quay House, Confidential editor Jonathan Schofield wrote how the 'somehow heroic' Modernist building by HS Fairhurst & Son was a 'building of great subtlety and balance'.
Still, most thought it looked like an Old Soviet hospital, so down it comes to make way for the Ian Simpson-designed No.1 Spinningfields - a nineteen-storey office tower with potential for ground floor cafe, restaurants and retail units.
Building work on No.1 Spinningfields is expected to finish in 2017 and will swallow half of The Lawns'.
No1 Spinningfields
Lawn Club plans - yellow outline is reported new shape and the red arrow is remaining green area
New plans for The Lawn Club show that the venue will be cut in length to make room for building work, however, the reshaped venue will take a 90 degree turn towards the Haig Club (formerly Long Bar) and spread over the third lawn.
This means only one Spinningfields lawns will remain. Less The Lawns, more, well, Lawn.
Confidential is told the 'new look venue will include an outside decking area with additional seating, all-weather parasols and an outside BBQ, ready for the summer months'.
There'll also be a new private dining area and extended capacity in both the bar and restaurant.
The reshape is welcome news, Executive Chef David Gale and team are cooking beautifully at present - read our latest review here.
Still, good luck finding a bit of green to plonk your arse on come summertime. Game of 'German Towels', anyone?
