All Cultural articles – Page 81
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Light shines on Wallace scheme
Purcell Miller Tritton and John J O’Connell Architects have won planning for their extension to the Wallace art collection in central London after agreeing to lower the height of the roof lights following complaints by neighbours
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley has £18m postal job licked
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has bagged a deal to design a home for the British Postal Museum & Archive in Swindon.
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' Everyman wins planning
Haworth Tompkins’ £28 million redevelopment of Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre has won planning.
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NewsDundee Victoria and Albert Museum proposals to go on show
The shortlisted firms vying to design an outpost for the Victoria and Albert Museum at Dundee will put their proposals on show next month.
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NewsDiller Scofidio and Renfro scoop Broad museum
Art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad has finally named US practice Diller Scofidio and Renfro as the architects for his museum of contemporary art in downtown Los Angeles.
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NewsBennetts completes Stratford upon Avon theatre revamp
Bennetts Associates’ £112.8 million transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon has reached practical completion.
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NewsSoane Museum holds blind auction to raise funds for expansion
Sir John Soane’s Museum in London is to give away original art works by artists and architects in a blind sale to raise money for its expansion and refurbishment project.
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NewsV&A seeks architect for Cast Courts
The V&A is seeking an architect to act as the lead consultant on a major renovation of the London museum’s Cast Courts.
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NewsNWDA cuts hit capital projects in the North West
The North West Development Agency has announced that it will withdraw all non-contracted funding for regional projects, hitting schemes including Haworth Tompkins’ Everyman Theatre and Proctor and Matthews’ Chester Zoo project.
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Building StudyNo 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward
Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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NewsForeign Office Architects to design £17m Cleveland art gallery
Foreign Office Architects is set to build its first museum and first major building in the USA in the shape of the $26.3 million (£17 million) Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
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Building StudySouth London Gallery by 6a Architects
6a’s commission to create a café and flat for the South London Gallery evolved into something more ambitious, while still retaining the building’s domestic character.
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Building StudyA womb with a view: the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion
The fact that Peter Palumbo is chair of the selection panels for both the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion and the Pritzker prize, perhaps gives some indication as to why the names recognised by both programmes seem so often to be drawn from the same starlit pool.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Building StudyChiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' National Theatre revamp in for planning
Haworth Tompkins’ plans for the £70 million revamp of London’s National Theatre have been submitted for planning to Lambeth Council.
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Rundell joins Hirst in gallery bid
Rundell Associates is working with artist Damien Hirst on a bid for a gallery to be built in Hyde Park.
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Building StudyJewish Museum extension by Long & Kentish in Camden Town, London
The Jewish Museum has been skilfully expanded with the addition of a converted piano factory at the building’s rear, but was it wise to persist with such an understated site?