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Following the relaunch last month of heritage theme park Dreamland in Margate, UK – 11 years after its closure – Gary Reynolds, director at Ray Hole Architects, has said the develop- ment is still “very much a work in progress.” Ray Hole are part of a group of designers


working on the heritage project. Partnered with Hemingway Design, who created the £18m (US$27m, €24m) vintage concept, Ray Hole undertook the logistics of getting a large visitor attraction through planning, building regulations and working with everyone involved to realise the vision. “It’s very much a work in progress. Everyone


will see it evolve as a visitor attraction, probably over the next few years in all honesty,” said Reynolds, speaking exclusively to AM2. “It’s complicated, it’s difficult to bring any visitor attraction to life when you’re trying to deal with rides from different generations and trying to bring them back. Take the scenic railway for example, that’s been literally had to be rebuilt from the ground up to conform to modern day safety standards.


Heritage theme park Dreamland opened last month for the first time in more than a decade


“It’s had enormous amounts of complications,” continued Reynolds. “There’s a whole chequered history. You need to take a step back with


these things and think it’s amazing that it’s actually happened and will continue to evolve over the next few years.” More: http://lei.sr?a=N3v4S_A


UNESCO deems 24 new sites worthy of receiving world heritage status


UNESCO has announced the annual update to its register of sites worthy of world heritage status, adding 24 new locations to its global list of more than 1,000. Well-known visitor


attractions, including France’s Champagne wine region, The Alamo and Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge are all new additions to the list, with lesser-known sites named on the list now hoping for a boost in tourism numbers. Denmark, France,


Iran and Turkey had two allocations apiece, leading the way in new additions. A controversial Japanese bid was


©Cybertrek 2015 The gallery will nearly double in size


HK$930m plans for Hong Kong Museum of Art


Ephesus in Turkey is a new addition to the heritage list


unanimously approved for a collection of more than 20 sites illustrating the country’s industrial revolution during the 19th century. The bid was approved only after


Japan and South Korea reached an agreement over whether to acknowledge the sites’ history of wartime forced labour, particularly that of Gunkanjima.


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The Hong Kong Museum of Art is to close in August for a four-year HK$930m (US$120m, €109m, £78m) renovation, which will nearly double the amount of exhibition space available to the 53-year-old institute. Scheduled to reopen in 2019, the


museum’s main exhibition area will be expanded to 10,000sq m (107,600sq ft), with an additional three galleries also being developed. Hong Kong’s Archi- tectural Services Department is acting as lead architect for the redevelopment. More: http://lei.sr?a=v2S8g_A


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