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On behalf of Downtown Space Properties, Cooper Cromar are pleased to announce that Dawn Construction have commenced work on The Hub building at Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
The Hub commands a prominent South-Eastern corner plot within the emerging Digital Media Quarter, strengthening Scottish Enterprise's vision for Glasgow's creative community on the south side of the River Clyde.
The Hub will sit alongside existing occupiers such as the BBC, SMG, Film City Glasgow and the Science Centre.
Due for completion in February 2009, the £12.75m development comprises of 73,500 sq.ft of highly flexible managed business space in some fifty small to medium sized units targeted at digital media and creative industry based companies, a central market square, café bar and neighbourhood shopping.
The Hub is being developed with the full support of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.
The Digital Design Studio, an arm of the Glasgow School of Art, is poised to take 20% of the building and plans are already well advanced to house its state of the art 3D digital projection studio, rivaling that of any in the world.
As a separate enterprise, the Digital Design Studio and Arup Acoustics also plan a joint venture enterprise which includes a high-tech Sound Lab to develop and marry 3D environments with acoustic technology.
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Van Alen Institute invites applications for the 2008-2009 New York Prize Fellowship.
Fellowships support advanced research and experimental practice in public architecture.
Fellows are based at the Institute, where they generate publicly accessible projects on the most significant issues shaping public life and the built environment today.
The Institute welcomes proposals for public projects from emerging scholars and practitioners in the design and planning disciplines, and other fields in the arts, humanities and sciences.
Up to five Van Alen Institute Resident Fellowships and one Partnered Fellowship with the Social Science Research Council will be awarded for residency periods of three months in the Fall, Spring, or Summer of 2008-2009.
Fellowship awards include project support, work and gallery space at the Institute, publication in Public Practice, stipend, and a range of project production, research, and programming resources.
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James Purnell, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, announced that the government will provide £50 million in capital investment to aid the institution's much anticipated extension project.
With this cash boost in hand, work can really get underway to realise Herzog and de Meuron's design, which will transform the South Bank skyline in time for 2012.
Although the Swiss architects were responsible for the original power station conversion, artists' impressions of the 23,000 square metre new wing - which will also house the new Design Museum, and a whole range of other contemporary arts facilities - depicts a glass stacked-effect structure, which starkly contrasts with the industrial feel of the current gallery.
While the exterior of the building has already been decided, however, the inside of the space is still up for grabs - and Tate Modern is calling for you to be involved.
To aid the hunt for design inspiration, The Great Tate Mod Blog has been launched, with the aim of encouraging art fans and future visitors to contribute ideas about how they want interiors of the new gallery to look.
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The architecture studio A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, will build a hotel and spa near the Verdugo river, in Ponte Caldelas, northern Spain.
This region is known because of its archaeological sites, very rich in cave paintings, the local architecture, worth mentioning the old bridge over the river, and the thermal spring that gave its name to the town, a traditional point on interest in this zone.
Starting from these premises, the studio designed a project for this 10.000 square meters plot, where the first consideration was the integration of the new building in the natural surroundings, respecting the existing native vegetation and natural context.
The building's parts run along the riverside on different levels, assuming the terrain's natural topography, and makes use of traditional forms, like the sloping roofs, and local natural materials like wood and stone, including the use of water as a design element in the whole of the intervention.
The project includes a 30-rooms hotel, relax areas, health treatment consulting rooms, kitchen and restaurant.
It is comprised by a collection of cubic boxes linked by a large corridor that contains the common areas and gives access to the rooms.
Each block has been located to preserve the existing trees, integrating them to the building, preserving the riverside and the existing channel.
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Design&Disasters is a project initiated by the DesignSingapore Council, with the aim of creating designs that can be deployed to prepare for and minimise effects of disasters, in the case of disaster occurrences in the 5Rs: 1. Resilience 2. Respond 3. Rescue 4. Restore 5. Rebuild.
It also hopes to cultivate a better appreciation of design's role in improving lives and in humanitarian aid, as well as an understanding that design is not the exclusive precinct of the elite, but also has a broad-based functional humanitarian utility.
The project called for new ideas as well as ready solutions, and received ideas from 7 teams and individuals, from Singapore, China, Japan, Thailand and the UK.
The ideas will be compiled into a publication and exhibited during the Singapore Design Festival 2007 from 28 November - 16 December.
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