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Arup, Shedkm and Asif Khan Architects are among designers heading up six teams selected by National Museums Liverpool for the next stage of a competition to revamp part of the Unesco World Heritage Site.
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Spanning the area between the Royal Albert Dock and Mann Island, the transformation project will aim to improve the public realm and visitor experience at Canning Dock, revitalising the waterfront site.
NML wants to create “a cohesive visitor experience that links storytelling, heritage, community, connectivity, and commercial income”, acting as a catalyst for social and environmental improvements in the area, it said.
A report by Jack Malvern for The Times of London. First, the bad news: a British gallery’s portrait of a stern woman with closed palms, supposedly by the hand of Francisco Goya, has been discovered to be the work of a more obscure artist. The good news is that the Barber Institute in Birmingham now…
IQ Learning Resource Centre, Liverpool Hope University
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Liverpool Hope University has announced a competition for a new learning resource centre [Deadline: 30 June 2021]
The winning team will design and deliver a new information and studying space for students at the historic university which was formed following the merger of three local Christian teacher training facilities – Saint Katharine s College, Notre Dame College, and Christ s College – in 1974.
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The IQ Learning Resource Centre project is the latest upgrade for the university which occupies a main campus at Hope Park, Childwall and also hosts a specialist music and performing arts campus in Everton. Recent additions to the university estate have included a new £8.5 million health sciences building and £6 million sports facility, both designed by Watson Batty Architects of Loughborough.