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CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY
The new £17.2 million building for the specialist English & Performing Arts college, Brannel School, has started on site. Located in St Stephen in Cornwall and commissioned by Cornwall Council, the building has been designed by HLM Ar- chitects and is being built by Kier Western. The new facil- ities will provide 6,622 sq m (about 71,000 sq ft) – roughly the size of a football pitch – of teaching space and associated facilities for up to 750 pupils; including a theatre, performing arts spaces, multi-use games area, all-weather floodlit sports pitch, outdoor am- phitheatre and a specialist Area Resource Base to cater for up to 12 pupils with spe- cial needs. It will meet the latest environmental stan- dards with ground source heating, solar water heating and green roofs and is expected to achieve the Excellent BREEAM rating. Construction work will be completed in early summer next year.
‘The Welcoming City’: London Festival of Architecture 2010 - 19 June to 4 July 2010
This year’s London Festival of Architecture, ‘The Welcoming City’, takes place from 19 June to 4 July 2010. A city-wide cele- bration of architecture in the capital, the Festival will host a series of events to highlight London’s status as an interna- tional architectural hub. Centrally curated by three leading LFA organisations, The Architecture Foundation, New London Architecture and RIBA London, the project will be run in partnership with a number of institutions including the British Council, London Metropolitan University and Open House and will comprise three key week- ends over the Festival period.
The West End Hub, 19 – 20 June: The West End
Hub ‘Nash Ramblas’, is centred around Portland Place and Re- gent Street and the Royal Parks.
It highlights possibilities for an improved pedestrian route along the Nash Plan of 1810 for Re- gents Park and Regent Street. Other events include a 48hour talks programme in Park Cres- cent, and exhibition in Regents park telling the Nash story, shop windows installations, a BBC Broadcasting House Building Tour and Royal Academy workshops.
The East End Hub, 26 – 27 June:
The East End of London between Whitechapel and Stratford will host High Street 2012, represent- ing the last 6km of the London Olympic Marathon in 2012, as well as a wider streetscape and regeneration strategy. It will also host a series of Festival activities including a new commission from critically-acclaimed Austrian architects Feld72 reviving a va- cant town centre building.
The Southbank and Bankside Hub, 3 – 4 July: The final weekend
of the Festival brings focus to the area stretching between the cultur- ally vibrant South bank of the River Thames and the Elephant and Cas- tle neighbourhood further south. Taking its cues from Witherford Watson Mann architects’ Bankside Urban Forest scheme, it will create multiple opportunities for ex- change between Festival visitors and local residents. Festival activi- ties include a theatre built from locally-sourced recycled materials by German architects Köbberling and Kaltwasser, a pop-up cookery school at Borough Market, and guerrilla gardening projects.
Love Your Street:
The Festival programme will also highlight community schemes that pose solutions to current political needs, such as ‘Love Your Street’, an initiative to encourage resi-
SUGAR RUSH
NEO Bankside is a joint venture development by Native Land and Grosvenor and designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, situated immediately to the west of Tate Modern. As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Sculptor Brendan Jamison has been commissioned to create a scale model of Tate Modern and the four pavilions en- tirely out of sugar cubes. The sculptures will be on display in the NEO Bank- side Pavilion. The complete models will be built to a scale of 1:100 and the chimney of Tate Modern will be 1metre high.
Jewish Museum London, opens
Writer and broadcaster Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob, Cre- ative Director of the BBC and one of the museum’s patrons, recently launched the newly transformed Jewish Museum London in Camden Town. The museum, which has undergone a £10 million redevelopment, has tripled the space it has available to showcase its
world-class collections, which celebrate Jewish life and cul- tural diversity.
Through ground-breaking audio visual displays, hands on exhibits and many personal stories brought to life through objects and photographs, the story of Jewish history, culture and religion will be told in an innovative and compelling way
and engage with people of all backgrounds and faiths to explore Jewish heritage and identity as part of the wider story of Britain.
The only museum in London dedicated to a minority group, the museum’s expansion and re- development was made possible following a £4.2m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other donations from trusts, funds and individuals.
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