This new arts centre for Ebbw Vale is located on the site of the now-demolished steelworks, and occupies a pivotal site between two future squares. It contains a theatre, studio cinema and apartments as enabling development. The theatre stage opens both to its auditorium, and to a central courtyard providing great flexibility and opportunities for rehearsal, training and performance. We showed how the massive basements of the former steelworks could be used for promenade performances.