All Leisure & culture articles – Page 24
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FeaturesMoby Dock
Liverpool’s year of glory as European Capital of Culture is launched this weekend at the city’s brand new arena and convention centre. The 41,000m2 leviathan combines an exhibition hall, auditorium and arena that are all immense in scale. And it takes pride of place on the riverfront next to the ...
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NewsPlans for £18.5m Leicester Square revamp revealed
Westminster council launches search for top architect to help design scheme
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NewsStudio Bednarski skates into play-offs in Warsaw design competition
Designs for ice rink and other sports facilities puts London-based architect into final shortlist of three
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NewsSix artists vie to exhibit on Trafalgar Square plinth
Tracy Emin, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor are on the shortlist to produce an artwork for the fourth plinth in central London
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NewsLondon waterside developments go on show
Exhibition opens at New London Architecture looking at schemes along the capital's rivers, canals and docks
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NewsForeign Office gets go-ahead for Trinity.EC3
Developer Beetham wins planning permission for £700m mixed-use London scheme
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NewsNew radio shack for Southend
Amos Partnership has designed a fossil-shaped building that will transmit live broadcasts from next year
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NewsViñoly's luxury beachfront apartments - first images
Rafael Vinoly releases images of beach resort complex in his home country Uruguay
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NewsGreen light for £500m Portsmouth scheme
Developer Centros Miller goes ahead with Northern Quarter project after government confirms CPO
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NewsFoster designs carbon neutral resort on Black Sea coast - images
Foster + Partners reveal eco-friendly masterplan for five Bulgarian hill towns
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NewsUrban Splash reveals stunning shortlist for Weston-Super-Mare
Six architects vie to redesign Birnbeck Island and Pier in Weston-super-Mare
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NewsWillmott Dixon scoops £16.5m Leicester media centre
Contractor picked to build seven-story scheme by 2009
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FeaturesThe pool that (nearly) sank its architect
In 1996, one of Britain’s hottest young designers was given a £7m leisure centre project in north-east London. Over the next 11 years, it mutated into a £45m disaster that cost him his London office, his marriage and £250,000 of his own money.
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NewsLuxury pyramid hotel opens in Dubai
Interverve releases images of its five-star pyramid-shaped hotel for the Raffles Hotel Group
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NewsWhen in Romania …
UK practice YRM Architects is opening an eastern Europe office in Bucharest this week.
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NewsTerry Farrell reveals final London aquarium designs
The Biota! Aquarium in Silvertown Quays will be linked to nearby Thames Barrier Park by Arup pedestrian bridge
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NewsHeritage prefabs
Architect Snell Associates has designed a modular building system for visitor pavilions that the National Trust can roll out on its sites across the country.
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NewsAnother Washington cover-up
This museum courtyard designed by Foster + Partners and Buro Happold, opens tomorrow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
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NewsConstruction model lands on Trafalgar Square plinth - images
Thomas Shutte's glass sculpture Model For A Hotel adds a bit of colour to the grey stone of Trafalgar Square
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NewsNouvel redesigns Beirut hotel
Star architect re-starts work on Landmark hotel after three-year delay