All Cultural articles – Page 76
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NewsAdam Khan's floating visitor centre launched in Lancashire
Adam Khan Architects’ floating visitor centre at Brockholes nature reserve in Lancashire is due to be floated for the first time.The practice won the £8.6 million project following an RIBA competition for the reserve, where it will also oversee masterplanning activities.Project manager Ian Selby said the floating process itself, which ...
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NewsCaruso St John’s Gagosian opens
The latest outpost of the Gagosian Gallery, designed by Caruso St John and Hong Kong-based architects Atelier Pacific, has opened on Hong Kong Island.
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NewsArtists may boycott Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Artists are threatening to boycott Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi because of working conditions at the site.According to the New York Times more than 130 artists are proposing a boycott of the museum on Saadiyat Island, which is just beginning construction.Guggenheim Foundation director Richard Armstrong told the paper: “While we ...
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Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant
Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds.Work is now due to start on site this summer and could be completed by the end of next year.The Oxford ...
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NewsRussian cathedral plan for Paris site sparks spy fears
Franco-Russian practice Sade-Arch has sparked fears of cold war-style espionage in the heart of Paris with its plans for a £30 million Russian Orthodox cathedral beside the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...
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NewsSafdie Architects' Artscience Museum opens in Singapore
Safdie Architects’ Artscience Museum has opened in Singapore. It features 10 curved “petals” or “fingers” containing the 21 galleries, which are naturally lit from apertures in the finger tips illuminating the sculptural interior wall forms.The tallest rises 60m above the 4,000sq m “pond” beside which the 6,000sq m museum stands.The ...
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NewsCarmody Groarke chosen for Frieze Art Fair
London studio will design temporary pavilion in Regent’s Park
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NewsStudio Weave unveils floating cinema
Je Ahn and Maria Smith reveal first picture of ODA ’pavilion’
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NewsHackney cinema given green light
Fletcher Priest Architects has won planning permission for its proposals to transform a former music venue in Hackney, East London into a mixed-use arts and leisure destination
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NewsEnglish Heritage reports on ABK Redcar library
English Heritage has visited Ahrends Burton & Koralek’s (ABK) Redcar Central Library ahead of issuing a report detailing whether the building should be spot listed
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NewsGagarin tower prepares for lift off in Southwark
Russian architect Studio 44 has drawn up designs for a rocket-shaped skyscraper in Southwark, London as a homage to astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
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NewsFoster & Partners wins £1.7 billion cultural hub project in Hong Kong
Firm scoops prized job ahead of Rem Koolhaas’s OMA and local firm Rocco Design
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NewsShortlisted designs for major V&A extension revealed
Seven designs, including proposals by Heneghan Peng, Amanda Levete, Snøhetta and Jamie Fobert, exhibited to the public
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NewsZaha Hadid’s Chinese opera house debuts
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Guangzhou Opera House in southern China opens today.
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No delivery for Feilden Clegg Bradley postal museum
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s project to design a museum for the British Postal Museum and Archive in Swindon has been cancelled after Royal Mail withdrew its part of the funding.
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Opinion
Brought to book
Thanks, BD, for following up my email drawing attention to the plight of Redcar Library (News February 11).
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NewsPenttinen Schone unveils 'inflatable community space' pavilion
Commission for Essex council realised
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NewsFunding boost for Muma’s Whitworth Museum extension
Heritage Lottery Fund confirms £8 million grant for Manchester project