Sited in London’s most established ‘gay village’ of Soho, 'Queen of Clubs' is a LGBTQ+ nightclub revolving around the art form of drag. In light of the neighbourhood’s gentrification, the project aims to revive the lost fragments of the vibrant quarter’s rich cultural identity through a night space which commemorates Soho’s queer history and celebrates it through an architecture of performance and transcendence.

The project responds to the drastic 58% drop of LGBTQ+ venues in London over the past two decades, acting as a critique against the over-commercialisation of Soho’s queer venues that are becoming increasingly homogenous and homonormative. The building stands as a monument to the death of London’s ‘safe spaces’, symbolised by its façade designed as a reconfiguration of fragments of Soho’s past and present LGBTQ+ venues. As the drag queen changes her body from day to night, so does the building façade, transforming into a nightclub to signal the start of a show. Comprised of a series of street interventions leading up to the core venue, the scheme offers an alternative integrated night club for London’s LGBTQ+ community that actively engages the public through the building’s theatrical nature, reclaiming Soho’s status as an epicentre of queer culture before it’s too late.