All Leisure & culture articles – Page 17
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EPR Architects takes off at Biggin Hill
Four-star hotel gets permission to land at Biggin Hill Airport
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Cost model: Indoor arenas
Even in recessionary times, entertainment creates opportunities and in the live music business, promoters want new, purpose-built venues. Simon Rawlinson and Martin Jennings of Davis Langdon examine how gigs are changing the face of the indoor arena
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Images: 2012 village rises over Olympic Park
Work is now under way on every residential plot within the village site
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Victorian bandstand reopens in Brighton and Hove
Grade II-listed structure, restored by A:B:I:R architects, now includes cafe and bridge linking it to road
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Work starts on Olympic handball arena
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Planning sought for £24m BMX centre in east Manchester
Ellis Williams Architects' design for a new 110,000 sq ft building at Sportcity will include a 2,000-seater cycling arena
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Crazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower
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Village people: 2012 athletes' housing
The team behind the 2012 athletes’ village unveiled these images of the scheme on Tuesday
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Architecture Association school unveils summer pavilion
“Driftwood” structure created from spruce plywood
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Here today: Cepezed's temporary arena in The Hague
Dutch architect Cepezed has taken a leaf out of the semi-permanent 2012 Olympic stadium’s book and designed a temporary arena as part of a bid for The Hague to become European Capital of Culture in 2018
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Capita to redevelop Cardiff theatre
Consultant's architecture division secures £3.9m grant for Welsh cultural project
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Made in Taiwan
This nation’s manufacturing prowess has reached new heights with the stunning solar-panelled roof of Toyo Ito’s stadium for the World Games
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John McAslan reveals cinema plans for Hornsey Town Hall
The £16m project to restore the north London town hall includes a public performance space and private housing
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Could it be magic? Take That's stage set
Well, with its giant mechanical elephant, big top and 10m-high puppet ringmaster, Take That’s new show is certainly surreal. But who designs and builds this sort of stuff? Thomas Lane went behind the scenes at the fastest-selling show in UK pop history
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A hard act to follow: the New Acropolis
This is the New Acropolis museum, and it’s located a two-minute stroll from the most famous building in the world. So how did the architect handle that brief?
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Science Museum unveils £150m revamp
Wilkinson Eyre's designs for 'Museum of the Future' include glowing 'brain' beacon and new cosmology gallery
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Exploding church, invisible architect: Iglesia de Santa Monica
Spanish firm Vicens + Ramos is a reclusive practice, but this iconic/iconoclastic church in Madrid is hard to miss
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Supersize me: HKS' Dallas Cowboys stadium
The sheer scale of HKS’ stadium for the Dallas Cowboys kicks Wembley’s arch and Wimbledon’s retractable roof into touch
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Alsop steps into Puddle
A £250m Alsop Architects-designed hotel development at No 2 Puddle Dock in Blackfriars, central London, has gone in for planning
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Alsop’s £250m Blackfriars hotel in for planning
28,000m² development would replace conference and event centre