The apex: Suffolk's premier entertainment and business venue
With our customer centric approach, excellent road and rail links and ample parking, the apex will work with you to provide exactly the right atmosphere to showcase your company to the best effect and ensure your event is distinctive and memorable.
The apex: Suffolk's premier entertainment and business venue
Situated in the heart of Bury St Edmunds the beautiful state-of-the-art building provides a unique and attractive backdrop, and can be tailored to suit you, whatever your requirements.
The apex: Suffolk's premier entertainment and business venue
Whether you are looking for the ideal venue for a meeting, banquet, conference, exhibition, product launch or party the apex offers excellent facilities that are perfect for all occasions.
The apex: Suffolk's premier entertainment and business venue
With a main auditorium seating up to 600 boasting a unique flexible floor and seating system, together with bespoke meeting rooms and a stunning atrium area, the apex offers organisers and delegates an impressive experience.
The apex is the new business venue in Bury St Edmunds. Opened in October 2010 and situated in the heart of the town in Charter Square within the arc shopping centre, the venue has excellent transport links being just 10 minutes walk from the mainline station (served by trains from London and East of England) and 5 minutes walk from the Bus Station. This, together with excellent onsite parking facilities enables the apex to deliver an impressive facility for all types of meetings, conferences, product launches, training events and exhibitions.
Facts and figures
The apex:
was designed by Hopkins Architects with an external shell built by Taylor Woodrow
was fitted out internally by Stowmarket based Haymills
has an auditorium which can accommodate in excess of 500 seated and over 700 standing
has a moveable floor - flat for events, raked for performances or conferences or sunk
has a galleried auditorium - with a contemporary 'Shakespearean' feel
has custom-designed acoustics
has American white oak in the auditorium and Siberian larch in the foyer
has bars, kitchens, dressing rooms, cloakrooms, toilets, conference studios, offices and storage space has 'green' credentials through use of an open loop ground sourced heat pump for heating and cooling(water is abstracted and recharged through bore holes 90 metres deep in the ground next to the building)
has all conference / meeting equipment including LCD projectors, stands, screens, display boards, lectern and flip charts
has a unique acoustic design:
Isolation - ensuring noise and vibration does not break out of the auditorium structure to adjacent areas
Background - ensuring that the auditorium is naturally very, very quiet
Reverberation - ensuring that noise created in the auditorium
The apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3FD
TEL: 01284 758100 Copyright 2012 The apex All Rights Reserved
