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In 1973, the artistic directors of the now renamed Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Braham Murray, Casper Wrede, Michael Elliott and James Maxwell, were joined by theatre designer Richard Negri. Negri developed his initial design ideas for a permanent theatre inside the vast hall whilst teaching at Wimbledon School of Art, where he created a series of scale models with his assistant Peter Bennion. \r\n\r\nNegri was inspired by the structure of a rose, designing a theatre-in-the-round where the stage and the auditorium created one continuous form. The architects, Levitt Bernstein Associates, noted that \"the beginning for us was a small paper and wire model sitting in the middle of a table with Richard Negri striding round it talking about the form of a rose.\" This model shows an initial concept for the theatre, with multi-coloured panels and spiralling staircases surrounding the structure.\r\n\r\nConstruction of the final design began in April 1975 and the theatre opened on 15 September 1976. 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