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Peter Jackson turns eye towards World War One project
BY Tom Anstey | 19 Jan 2015
Director Peter Jackson is now focusing his attention on his World War One
museum project at New Zealand’s former Dominion Museum Building in
Wellington after completing the Hobbit movie trilogy.
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Birmingham Zoo nears financial target for US$15m renovation
BY Tom Anstey | 16 Jan 2015
Birmingham Zoo in Alabama, US, is closing in on its US$15m (€12.7m £9.9m)
Capital Campaign fundraising goal to renovate the 59-year-old facility, after
receiving a US$1m (€849,000, £658,000) grant from the Robert R. Meyer
Foundation.
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Sherlock stands in the way of cinema conversion
BY Katie Buckley | 16 Jan 2015
Plans to convert a 1926 art deco cinema in London into a luxury residential
development have been rejected by Kensington & Chelsea Council, following a
firm word from London's favourite fictional detective.
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V&A names director for Design Museum China
BY Katie Buckley | 15 Jan 2015
Ole Bouman, previously the head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has
been named as the director of the upcoming Shekou Design Museum in
Shenzhen, China.
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Buttress wins £21m Blackpool Winter Gardens contract
BY Tom Anstey | 14 Jan 2015
Manchester-based architecture firm Buttress has seen off stiff competition from
Heneghan Peng and Austin-Smith Lord to win the design contract for a £21m
(US$32m, €27m) museum in Blackpool Winter Gardens.
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Design flaws delay Thiruvananthapuram planetarium opening
BY Tom Anstey | 14 Jan 2015
A new state-of-the-art planetarium dome being built in the Indian city of
Thiruvananthapuram has been forced to delay its grand opening after design
flaws forced the under-construction Kerala State Science and Technology
Museum (KSSTM) to scrap previous plans.
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Chessington fined £150,000 for 2012 incident
BY Tom Anstey | 14 Jan 2015
Chessington World of Adventures has been fined £150,000 after a four-year-old
girl fell 14ft (4.26m) and fractured her skull in a ride queue in June 2012.
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Bjarke Ingels unveils Europa City masterplan
BY Katie Buckley | 13 Jan 2015
Bjarke Ingels, director of architecture practice BIG, has revealed his masterplan
for France's Europa City – set to be one of the largest leisure developments in
Europe over the next five years.
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