All Retail & Leisure articles – Page 80
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Olympics team to train at Archial venue
A new swimming and diving complex in Plymouth, designed by Archial, will be used by the Canadian diving team prior to next summer’s Olympics.Once completed, the £46 million Life Centre will feature a 50 x 25m swimming pool and a 25 x 16m diving pool along with sports halls, dance ...
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Bristol practice wins OK for Clevedon Pier work
Bristol practice O’Leary Goss Architects has been given planning permission to turn a derelict grade II listed hotel at Clevedon, Somerset, into apartments and to build a new visitor centre at a neighbouring pier.Grade I listed Clevedon Pier was built in 1869, with the hotel put up to cater for ...
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FaulknerBrowns’ venue open to all
FaulknerBrowns Architects’ White Water Centre will tomorrow become the first 2012 Olympic venue to open to the public.
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Libeskind pool ceiling collapses in Bern
The ceiling of a retail and leisure centre designed by Daniel Libeskind has collapsed for the second time in three years in the Swiss capital of Bern.
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Bryant Priest Newman completes Birmingham hotel
Bryant Priest Newman has completed a new Bloc Hotel in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.The four-storey hotel provides 73 rooms, taking loose inspiration from Japanese pod-style hotels, with bedrooms built to optimise sleeping conditions in terms of temperature, humidity and lighting.The Birmingham-based practice said it used a simple palette of materials to ...
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B3 Architects submits major plans for Norwich
City’s ’ugliest’ building would be razed to make way for £75 million regeneration
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Planning approval for John Lyall's Chatham scheme
Regeneration scheme for Kent seaside town worth £25 million gets go-ahead
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SOM team bags permission for huge east London scheme
Revised plans for Leamouth Peninsula approved by London Thames Gateway Development Corp
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World's highest hotel opens in KPF Centre
The highest hotel in the world has opened in KPF’s International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong.
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The Souk, Abu Dhabi Central Market, by Foster & Partners
An opening roof allows rain to fall on an internal tiled square in this ambitious modern reinterpretation of the traditional Middle Eastern souk.
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Steel structure of the London 2012 Olympic stadium
Here is a technical look at the structure of architect Populous’s Olympic stadium.
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London 2012 Olympic stadium by Populous
Despite a spiralling budget and uncertainty over its legacy, Populous’s Olympic stadium emerges as a lithe all-rounder.
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TP Bennett to oversee Sea Containers House revamp
Fourteen-storey Thames-side block could be turned into luxury hotel
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Cartwright Pickard wins planning for Barking scheme slated by Cabe
Design review raised concerns about residents’ quality of life
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EPR wins go-ahead to transform Gatwick offices into hotel
EPR Architects has been given planning permission to turn an office block at Gatwick Airport into a new 192-bedroom Hilton hotel.
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Green light for Space Group Architects' Westminster scheme
Space Group Architects has received planning permission for a mixed-use development in the London borough of Westminster.The four-storey building, based at Vauxhall Bridge Road near Victoria Station, sits just outside a conservation area and will be clad in basalt lavastone.It will provide retail space over two floors, with offices above ...
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Make's Croydon scheme submitted for planning
Cherry Orchard Road includes tallest building in the area
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International intelligence: Qatar
The 2022 World Cup has focused Qatar’s glittering development plans