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Wilkinson Eyre's £22m Millennium Bridge in Gateshead was named one of the best inventions of 2001 by Time magazine this week. It was the only piece of architecture to be honoured.(AJ, 13/12/01)
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Dome
Sports Academy plan revealed by
Steven Palmer
S&P Architects has unveiled the latest concept for the Millennium
Dome - a sports academy.
The Metropolitan Regeneration Trust and shopping centre developer, Tops
Estates, commissioned S&P to design the £80 million Dome Sports
Academy scheme. The proposal was officially presented to English Partnerships,
the site owner, and the London Borough of Greenwich last Thursday.
Brussels officials are consulting on a directive which would create a common method for calculating performance across member states and would set minimum standards which would also be applied to existing buildings.
(Source: Building Design, 07/12/01)
Proposed design of the Dome Sports Academy (AJPlus,11/12/01)
The design will leave the dome’s envelope untouched, while the
interior will be transformed into a wide ranging sports facility. It
will include a real snow ski slope, an extreme sports arena, health
clubs,
tennis courts, climbing halls, sub aqua centres, cinemas and an entertainment
centre. Sports,
leisure and lifestyle retail will take up 25% of the project’s
area.
A monorail transit
link is also planned, which will connect North Greenwich station to
the North Kent Line. Paul Young, director of S&P, told the AJ that
the monorail link was added to the design to better integrate the scheme
into South London.
Foster
& Partners is designing two city academies in London in a return
to secondary education buildings for the practice.
The two schemes, in Bexley and Brent, are currently at a pre-planning
stage.
( Building Design, 07/12/01)
"We’ve
talked about the Dome and its potential uses for ages - we started work
on this concept last year. This scheme will open the site up to the public
for free - ours is the only scheme that will do that," said Young.
This bid marks
the third viable option presented
to
the government. Medical charity, the Welcome Trust,
wants
to turn
the Dome into a biomedical research centre, which would limit public access;
while Quintain Estates and Australian developer Lend Lease are offering
a BBC programmes theme park, which would require an entrance fee
There has already been a high level of support from the leisure industry for the S&P design. Young told the AJ that the Lawn Tennis Association, diving associations, cinema groups and a number of other interested leisure organisations were all "really up for it". (AJPlus.co.uk, 11/12/01)
Cabe eyes lottery Powers
The Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment is locked in talks with the Arts Council about taking over its architecture department - a move that could hand the design watchdog significant new powers over the destiny of £86 million in lottery grants.
Vodaphone
has
appointed Octagon UK to create a global marketing communications program
and a series of events aimed at leveraging the mobile phone giant's sponsorship
of the Ferrari Formula One team.
(Marketing, 06/12/01)
The ongoing talks could lead to these powers being handed to Cabe and the council's architecture function being wound up altogether.
A Government source has said: "Jon Rouse is discussing with the Arts Council what the sensible thing to do with architecture at the Arts Council is. Does it make sense for there to be a division of responsibility?
Jon Rouse, Cabe CEO
Source: cabe.org.uk, 12/12/01
BAA
is launching a promotion to encourage people to visit London over the
Christmas & New Year period. The scheme, devised in conjunction with
Airport Express, allows customers to park their car in any short-term
car park at Gatwick, Heathrow or Standsted after 5pm for a flat fee of
£5. The promotion is designed to boost tourism within London.
(Precision Marketing, 30/111/01)
"A
decision may be about Cabe taking over both the Arts Council's cultural
role in architecture and its advisory role on lottery capital projects,
or just one of them."
Cabe already has some ties with the council and has a "structured
service level of agreement" which means its enabling department provides
advice on procuring new buildings.
The council's cultural remit in architecture includes steering the programme
for Architecture Week, funding for architecture centres and summer-time
lectures at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Last year, it had a budget of just under £100,000 and it is thought
this funding could be transferred to Cabe.
Officials from both the Arts Council and Cabe confirmed they are in ongoing
talks but declined to comment on the detail.
The news adds to impressions that Cabe is expanding its operations and
comes after it confirmed it was set to take over a key role in recommending
post-war buildings for listing.
It will now propose the buildings using recommendations from English Heritage,
which currently manages the job.
(Source: Building Design, 07/12/01)
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