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Eco-designed Moesgaard Museum opens at new location
BY Kim Megson | 28 Oct 2014
Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum – which is dedicated to the country’s
archaeology and ethnography – is open to the public once more after completing
a move across the city of Aarhus into its new £41m (US$66m, €52m) home.
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KidZania to launch two more sites across the UK
BY Tom Anstey | 27 Oct 2014
KidZania – the educational attraction for kids that allows them to experience
simulations of real-life jobs – is planning an additional two sites in the UK to the
one already planned this year for London.
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Queen to launch London Science Museum's £16m Communications Gallery
BY Tom Anstey | 24 Oct 2014
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will be in attendance tomorrow (25 October)
for the landmark launch of the London Science Museum’s new £16m (US$26m,
€20m) Communications Gallery – the first in the UK dedicated to the history of
information and communication technologies and the largest in the museum’s
history.
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Leading architects get busy imagining AU$450m Sydney Modern
BY Alice Davis | 24 Oct 2014
The AU$450m (US$394.4m, £246m, €312.2m) revamp of the Sydney Modern art
gallery
in New South Wales,
Australia has taken a step forward after its director announced 12 highly acclaimed
architecture firms as
potential designers for the project.
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Chinese President: 'No more weird architecture'
BY Tom Anstey | 23 Oct 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an end to China’s abstract and
strange-looking architectural structures, calling for morally inspiring art to
“cultivate taste and clean up undesirable work styles.”
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Major film studios working with Dubai's Bollywood theme park
BY Tom Anstey | 23 Oct 2014
Details of the Bollywood theme park coming to the AED10bn (US$2.7bn, €2.1bn,
£1.7bn) Dubai Parks and Resorts development have been revealed by developer
Meraas Holding, with several major film studios working on the park’s creative
direction.
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Architecture firms invited to design Swedish 'natural structure'
BY Tom Anstey | 23 Oct 2014
Competition entries are currently being sought for ‘Hello Nature!’ – a site
located at the foot of Mt Omneberget in northern Sweden – which is looking for
”structures that celebrate nature” involving elements of “both
education and recreation, or business and pleasure.”
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Memphis planetarium to undergo modernisation
BY Tom Anstey | 22 Oct 2014
The city of Memphis, Tennessee, US, has filed a US$1.2m (£744,000, €943,000)
building permit to renovate the Sharpe Planetarium at the Pink Palace Museum
in the city centre.
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Designs unveiled for £15m Geffrye transformation
BY Tom Anstey | 22 Oct 2014
New plans have been released for the London-based Geffrye Museum’s £15m
(US$24m, €18.9m) transformation, which will create new spaces for the
museum’s collections and library.
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US and Cuba look to form aquarium partnership
BY Tom Anstey | 22 Oct 2014
In a rare show of unity between the US and Cuba, representatives of Tampa
Bay’s Florida Aquarium travelled across the water to look into forming a
partnership with the island nation’s National Aquarium in Havana.
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