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£4m garden restoration
The new interpretation has been funded by a European Union and Defra grant through the Rural Development Programme for England A sensory experience
The National Trust’s redeveloped East Pool Mine, formerly known as Cornish Mines and Engines, is the latest facility to benefit from a £2.5m programme to improve mining heritage facilities. Discover the Extraordinary is a three-year
programme of investments across Cornwall and Devon developed by the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site to enhance the visitor experience at mining heritage sites. Design and build company 20/20 won a
competitive tender process to improve the East Pool Mine visitor experience and the way that people journey through the site. It used waymarkers, models of the site and interpretation to encourage visitors to explore the entire site and orientate
people around the industrial heritage remains, helping them visualise how things would have looked in the 1930s as a working mine.
20/20 also designed and installed
interactive features to give visitors an understanding of scientific and engineering principles such as large scale models of the two engines that people can experiment with, showing the difference between winding and pumping engines. Written information on displays has been
kept light as possible with the exhibition pieces and hands-on exploration serving as the main attraction. Books have been strategically placed so that visitors can find out more about topics of particular interest.
The historic King’s Gardens in Southport are to undergo a £4m restoration as part of plans to transform the seafront and promote its use and enjoyment by local people and visitors. Capita Symonds is leading the
detailed design stage of the project, which encompasses extensive repair and restoration within the 15 hectare historic park site including amenity spaces, public realm, soft landscaping, historic buildings, structures, paths, surfaces, lighting, street furniture and the marine lake edge. The project specifically includes the
restoration of the gardens’ Venetian- style footbridge as well as the restoration of original external lighting and redevelopment of the lakeside edge to accommodate new visitor attractions. As lead consultant, Capita Symonds is
responsible for project managing the overall delivery of the design and for managing a team comprising Capita Symonds design engineers, Sefton Council’s landscape designers, and externally appointed conservation architects. Capita Symonds is also responsible for the restoration and improvement of external lighting and surfaces, the lakeside retaining wall and revetment edge, and the footbridge. Work on the project is expected to begin in late 2012.
The new design is sympathetic to the existing style of the hotel Statement bar at Waldorf Hilton
The Waldorf Hilton’s Good Godfrey’s bar and lounge has relaunched following a redevelopment by design LSM. Responding to the brief that called for a
‘statement’ bar which would attract residents and passers by, the marble, chrome and
granite bar was illuminated with up‐scaled lighting to create a bold, visual statement. Existing listed panelled features were
retained while decorative wallpaper was added to the ceiling recesses and large antiqued mirrors hung from the walls to
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reflect the interior. The lounge and lobby was minimalist in design with no sense of ‘arrival’ for guests, therefore large chandeliers, feature wallpaper and intricate mouldings were introduced. Heavy, theatrical drapes and grand, antique mirrors add to the sense of theatre. The second phase of the redevelopment includes the redesign of the current sparse looking reception which will include the creation of a new library snug tucked into the lobby.
The work is being jointly funded by
Sefton Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘Parks for People’ programme
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