projects: pre & post planning
Professors Merfyn Jones and Fergus Lowe with plans for Arts & Innovation Centre.
Building bridges between arts and sciences
A new £35m Arts and Innovation Centre is being designed by Bangor University to bring together science, technology and the creative industries and forge closer links with the local community.
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HE BUILDING will physically bridge the University’s upper campus with the science site and will incorporate
a re-development of the existing College Park. Dubbed the ‘Pontio Project’, the scheme will include an Innovation Hub (see box), contemporary teaching and learning facilities and a range of indoor and outdoor performance spaces – including a theatre – as well as a new home for the University’s Students’ Union.
Cultural space
The centre’s public performance spaces aim to become a focus for Welsh culture, and will be designed to provide inspirational platforms for engaging new talent, says deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Fergus Lowe. “This is the project that will put
Bangor on the map and will help to regenerate the city’s urban heart.” Present plans are for a 450-seat
theatre, cinema space, rehearsal studio, and an outdoor amphitheatre, accompanied by new social facilities including bars, dining and park areas. The project is backed by £15m of Welsh Assembly Government funding. The design team includes architects Grimshaw, who designed Cornwall’s Eden Project, engineering and design consultancy Atkins, and Arup, an expert on theatre design and acoustic performance.
www.bangor.ac.uk www.grimshaw-architects.com
Hybrid PPP for Scots scheme
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LANNING permission has been secured for the £60m Western Isles Schools Project in Scotland. The client
is Western Isles Council, private sector development partner Faithful+Gould and the architect is 3D Reid. The project will see the development of
five schools over five sites: • The Nicolson Institute, Stornoway,
Western Isles Schools Project.
Lewis – new High School for 1,100 pupils, including the refurbishment and remodelling of existing listed buildings • Sir E Scott School, Tarbert, Harris –
refurbishment, remodelling and extension to existing High School for 161 pupils and a new Primary school for 75 pupils and a Nursery • West Side Primary School, Barvas, Lewis – new Primary school for 100 pupils
The
Innovation Hub
Combining different disciplines and focusing on skills that will generate new technologies for business, including:
• digital technologies • environmental goods and services • bioscience • advanced software • visualisation
and Nursery • Balivanich Primary School, Balivanich, Benbecula – new Primary school for 150 pupils and a 0-5 Nursery for 60 pupils • Bayble Primary School, Point, Lewis – new
Primary school for 175 pupils and Nursery. Described as the first’ Hybrid PPP’
procurement project in Scotland, it aims to provide the best aspects of PPP without the perceived drawbacks with funding in the form of a government grant rather than through a private investor. The contract, in essence, is a standard Design & Build project, tendered at Stage D but with the added requirement for FM and building lifecycle expertise. Start on site is expected in July 2010 with completion by July 2012.
www.3DReid.com www.fgould.com/uk
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