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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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Iceland's IceCave to debut in May
BY Tom Anstey | 13 Jan 2015
A new visitor attraction is set to launch later this year in Iceland in the shape of
IceCave – a network of man-made tunnels and glaciers running inside the
Langjökull Glacier.
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Sinkhole leads to record numbers for Corvette Museum
BY Tom Anstey | 13 Jan 2015
The sinkhole which swallowed eight cars at Kentucky’s National Corvette
Museum has actually been a help rather than a hindrance, with the museum
marking a record-breaking year for 2014.
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Philanthropy makes up for funding shortfall in America's museums: survey
BY Tom Anstey | 12 Jan 2015
More than 61 million people visited museums across the US, Canada and Mexico
in 2014, but the attractions are having to seek ever more diverse funding
streams to stay in the green, according to a new survey released by the
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
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