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Offsite construction specialist Reds10 has completed new staff offices for the Imperial War Museums in London.
The new building, called Parkside, was designed by Jestico + Whiles and has been built on Austral Street in Southwark.
It will be the principal workspace for Imperial War Museums’ staff in London, acting as a central hub for over 180 of its employees.
Techniques used on the building include 3D laser scanning and production of multiple building prototypes.
The office includes a ground floor providing shared facilities including a cafe and breakout spaces. The two upper floors feature open workspace and meeting areas.
Parkside also uses natural ventilation and daylight to reduce energy demand, while the roof has been fitted with solar energy panels. The site includes a large cycle store for 70 bicycles and an electric car charging port.
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The Imperial War Museum in London, which is behind a £2m project for new art on conflict. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
The Imperial War Museum in London, which is behind a £2m project for new art on conflict. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
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Have others noted that if the £37bn that the government has committed to the outsourced test-and-trace scheme is spent over the planned two-year period, it will cost a little over £350m a week? Worth putting that on the side of a bus.
Imperial War Museums behind £2m project for new art on conflicts Caroline Davies
Imperial War Museums has announced a £2m project for new art commissions depicting conflict, continuing a role dating back to the first world war.
The fund from royalties from Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning film They Shall Not Grow Old, which was commissioned by IWM, would ensure funding for more than 20 ambitious commissions bringing art to audiences across the UK, the museums said. Awards will range from £20,000 to £250,000.
The scheme reflected one first set up by the wartime government in 1916, which saw war art on an unprecedented scale, with artists dispatched to the western front “creating a record for society”, said IWM’s head of art, Rebecca Newell.
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