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18 Dec 2015
Thomas Heatherwick's King's Cross plaza to open by 2018
A mixed-use piazza designed by Heatherwick Studio for London’s King’s Cross has been given the green light. Camden Council have approved Heatherwick’s plans to transform two disused Victorian coal drop buildings at King’s Cross railway station into 100,000sq m (1m sq ft) of culture and leisure space. The
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18 Dec 2015
Major US theme parks beef-up security amid terror tensions
Disney, Universal Studios and SeaWorld have all tightened security at their parks in the wake of recent events in the US and abroad. Up to the start of December 2015, there had been more than 350 mass shootings in the US this year – more than one a day – with 62 shootings at schools, more than 12,000 killed in
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18 Dec 2015
Abandoned Spanish church converted into art-filled skate park
A crumbling 100-year old church in Llanera, northern Spain, has been transformed by local skateboarding enthusiasts and a hotly-tipped artist into a spectacular indoor skate park. Almost every interior surface in the ‘Iglesia Skate’ church is painted with bright murals and geometric patterns, creating a
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18 Dec 2015
Hoskins' plans to convert listed Edinburgh building into Rosewood hotel thwarted
Plans to turn Edinburgh’s neoclassical Old Royal High School into a luxury hotel have been refused by the city council. Developers Duddingston House Properties and Urbanist Hotels had proposed a £75m (US$115m, €102m) project to restore and convert the listed 1820s property – which has stood vacant for almost 50 years on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill – into a 147-bedroom
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18 Dec 2015
DCMS under fire over tourism strategy ‘U-turn’
The Tourism Alliance has criticised the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) decision to ‘merge’ VisitEngland and VisitBritain, warning that the move creates a number of “major problems” for the UK tourism industry. Tourism minister Tracey Crouch announced this week that the organisations will be brought together under the responsibility of the British
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17 Dec 2015
Deep thermal pools are the future, Italian design duo tell CLAD
The Italian design team behind the world’s deepest thermal pool have told architecture and design magazine CLAD that the concept could go global in the near future. Emanuele Boaretto made history last year when he opened a 40m pool, named Y-40, at his Hotel Millepini resort in Padova, north Italy.
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17 Dec 2015
IAAPA chair McReynolds says safety is top priority for body
New IAAPA chair John McReynolds has raised the issue of safety among the attractions body’s members, stating that the industry must stand for safety at all times as a top priority. McReynolds, who is senior vice president of external affairs for
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16 Dec 2015
Santiago Calatrava's Museum of Tomorrow ready for Rio opening
Rio de Janeiro’s hotly-anticipated Museau do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) – designed by prize-winning Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava – will be officially opened tomorrow (17 December) by the city’s mayor. The contemporary science museum, which has taken five years to build, is located in the city centre’s
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