The Grade II listed building is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register and is currently recorded as being in poor condition. The national Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC), which held the lease, has confirmed that it can no longer meet the building's repair obligations and will surrender the lease so that restoration can be carried out by new occupants.
Touting itself as a "contemporary art hotel," Sonolux has turned its eight floors into video art galleries, with handpicked works projected across hallway walls. Repurposed red movie theater seats allow you to sit down and contemplate the art. If you're not necessarily used to seeing immersive multimedia art in hotels, it can be a little jarring to step off an elevator into a dim space popping with raucous animation and sound effects, but one of Sonolux's goals is to provoke,