All Leisure & culture articles – Page 31
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NewsAnother fine mesh
Alison Brooks Architects has won planning permission for this £4m arts and business centre in Folkestone, Kent.
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NewsThe battle of Croydon
Croydon council struck developer Stanhope a blow this week by serving a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the Gateway site in east Croydon.
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NewsImage: Make wins design for Sherwood Forest centre
Architect beats off 78 competitors with design for visitor centre based on a huge oak tree
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NewsThe bad old days
This £9m scheme at the RAF museum in Cosford, near Wolverhampton, holds the world’s first display on the cold war.
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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NewsWave heart
Architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled images of the £60m Glasgow Museum of Transport, due to open in 2009.
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NewsNew image: Foster in Kazakhstan
Architect unveils entertainment centre in the country made famous by Borat
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NewsNew images: Museum of Childhood
The Museum of Childhood in east London has undergone a £4.7m makeover designed by Caruso St John
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FeaturesHarmonic progression
RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together
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NewsImage: Foster's Russian cultural centre
Foster and Partners is selected to design music and cultural centre in North Ossetia
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NewsFirst image: Rem Koolhaas' Latvian art museum
Design unveiled for Latvia's first art museum for more than 100 years
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NewsBluewater expansion wins approval
Work on the exhibition and events centre designed by Denton Corker Marshall is expected to start next year
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NewsFirst images: Fort Dunlop opens for business
Iconic former tyre warehouse has been bought back to life by Urban Splash and architect shedkm
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NewsNew chapter for Barking and Dagenham
Architecture plb has unveiled these designs of a public library for Barking and Dagenham in east London.
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FeaturesSpiritual awakening
Mario Botta’s Swiss Mountain Oasis lifts body, mind and architecture to new levels
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NewsMiddle heaven
Tees Valley Regeneration and developer Bioregional Quintain have agreed a deal for the £200m regeneration of this site in Middlehaven, Middlesbrough this week.
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NewsHappy Hackney
Lord Rogers and Ken Livingstone are to open the first of London’s 100 Public Spaces today in Hackney, east London.
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NewsSporting Salford
Arup Sport has designed this £35m 22,000-seat stadium, part of a £130m development for Salford in Greater Manchester.
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FeaturesCost model: Hotels
A hotel lives and dies on the quality of its service, but that relies on constructing the right kind of environment in the first place. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon breaks down the costs
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Libeskind brings Eden to North
Rainforest attraction is expected to be located in Blackpool or Liverpool and will feature hotel and giant greenhouse