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in brief •Restaurant rollout
Mori, the casual restaurant group focusing on healthy Japanese food, is due to open its third site in London early this year.
The niche company offers Japanese and Eastern-influenced dishes with recipes sourced from the street markets of Asia to eat in or take away. It launched just over a year ago and plans to open 10 units in the UK and abroad over the next two years. The new site will offer 1,500sq ft of space with space for 20-covers.
•Heritage funding
Stonehenge is to receive £10m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Constructed and in use between 3,000BC to 1,600BC, the World Heritage Site attracts 900,000 visitors every year.
HLF’s grant will support work to remove the existing visitor facilities allowing the experience of the stones to be more naturally integrated with its ancient processional approach and the surrounding landscape. These improvements will give people the chance to explore what the site would have been like thousands of years ago.
The project aims to improve the visitor experience, including the creation of a new visitor centre, which will include education and exhibition spaces to help people learn more about Stonehenge’s history. The project will also support training opportunities and a new volunteering programme.
The site contains over 700 known archaeological features
Classical and contemporary dancers share facilities at the new centre New home for northern dance
Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre have moved into their new £12m home in central Leeds. The six storey development, designed by the Strategic Design Alliance, a partnership between Jacobs Architecture and Leeds City Council, has been developed by Wates Construction. The building houses the largest dance
rehearsal space outside of London, featuring seven dance studios including a 230-seat studio theatre, a health suite, wardrobe facilities, office space and meeting rooms and a public exhibition space. The building is of a frame and panel construction, the infill panels of the new
building were constructed using a timber, structurally integrated panel which provides excellent levels of thermal insulation, with a rainscreen zinc panel facade. The entrance to the building features a 20m high glass frontage which maximises natural light to the lobby/reception. The project is the result of public/private funding with Leeds City Council providing the site and £6.6m, together with a £4m grant from Arts Council England. More than £1m was raised by the Northern Ballet and subsequent agreements to lease facilities to private sector organisations including Leeds Metropolitan University.
Meanwhile, HLF has granted £2m to transform the Charles Dickens Museum. Home to more than 10,000 books, first editions, manuscripts and letters, the writer’s former home in Bloomsbury will be restored giving easier access and recreating the original atmosphere. The project will double the current exhibition space including the additional use of the adjoining house, allowing for the collections to be better displayed, and for storage facilities to be provided that will protect the most precious items. There will also be new visitor and education centre spaces.
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