All Leisure & culture articles – Page 32

  • News

    Extreme gardening

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Developer Land Securities has been given the go-ahead for its revised 37-storey tower in the City of London, at 20 Fenchurch Street, which includes a public sky garden.

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    Pyramid of peace

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    A 21st-century reinterpretation of an ancient Egyptian pyramid by Foster and Partners opened this week in Kazakhstan.

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    Tuning up in Bristol

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Levitt Bernstein has unveiled this image of Colston Hall, a grade II-listed concert venue in Bristol.

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    Peel's Mersey beat

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Developer Peel Holdings this week revealed plans for a £4.5bn waterside scheme to regenerate Birkenhead Docks on the Wirral peninsula.

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    Interdisciplinary metaphor

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    American architect Steven Holl has completed a school of art for the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

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    Stirling effort

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The Phaeno Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany, designed by Zaha Hadid, is one of six buildings shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize for Architecture.

  • Features

    Life after la corrida

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Barcelona’s disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers’ vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.

  • News

    Court of appeal

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Retail Development Partnership has submitted a planning application to build a £40m four-storey mixed-use scheme designed by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson.

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    A moving performance

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    This is the winning design by architects AOC and engineers Momentum and Mark Prizeman for the first ever London International Festival of Theatre (Lift) in 2008.

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
    Features

    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

  • Booms and movable floors are used to make the 50 m pool at Crawley Leisure Centre suitable for a mix of leisure, teaching and fitness swimming
    Features

    Cost model: Swimming pools

    2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Britain's swimmers haven't had much success recently - so if we want a gold rush in 2012, we must start building competition pools now. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the key design and economic issues and breaks down the costs of a 50 m pool with dry sports ...

  • London’s Almeida theatre won £1.5m from the Arts Council for England to improve seating, refurbish backstage and extend its foyer
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    Cost model: Theatres

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Davis Langdon looks at the design and value drivers, operational considerations, procurement issues and of course costs associated with theatre new-build and refurbishment

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    Cost model: Football stadiums

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential

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    Kunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing

    2003-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...

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    Cost model: Hotel refurbishment

    2002-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Despite sharp drops in profitability over the past year, hotel operators continue to invest heavily in refurbishment. In this quarter’s cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the key elements and challenges of hotel refurbishment, giving detailed costs for guest rooms and front-of-house areas

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    Cost study: Birmingham Repertory Theatre

    2000-10-06T00:00:00Z

    The diversity of performing arts buildings makes it hard to talk about a typical case, but the £7m refurbishment of Birmingham Repertory Theatre reveals some common issues

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    Cost model: Multiplex cinemas

    2000-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Since 1985, nearly 2000 multiplex cinemas have opened, mainly on out-of-town sites. Now government planning guidance is forcing cinema operators back into town centres. Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest examines the design, specification and costs of urban multiplexes

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    Cost study: Hemel Hempstead Sports Centre

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Awarded the biggest lottery grant for a sports building refurbishment, Hemel Hempstead Sports Centre has been given a complete facelift. It is a success on all fronts, with attendance figures up 80% and the work costing half that of new-build

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    Cost model: Audiovisual systems

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    In this mini cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the costs of audiovisual systems, which are appearing everywhere in the workplace, from offices to in-house gyms, and across the leisure industry in pubs, restaurants and football grounds

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    Cost study: Holiday Inn Express

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The client wanted a budget hotel built for a fixed price with minimum risk. Thanks to the innovative use of a special purpose vehicle company, it was able to start operating the new Holiday Inn Express at Wellingborough after just 30 weeks on site