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Refurbished modernist building to become new artistic hub: Forma HQ to launch in Southwark, London this summer
FormaHQ. Image courtesy Forma Arts & Media. Photograph by Max Creasy.
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.- Commissioned by Southwark Council in collaboration with curator Aldo Rinaldi, the newly refurbished modernist building was designed by Sanchez Benton Architects with international artist Gabriel Kuri. The light-filled structure, situated on Great Dover Street by Bricklayers roundabout in Southwark, includes Formas new offices, five affordable artist studios, a residency space for visiting international artists, an event space and room for a café and bookshop. The rooftop was converted into a new public garden further designed with celebrated horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett and will be fitted with furniture designed by Kuri.
Organisations in Cornwall are sharing more than a quarter of a million pounds to help them reopen this year. It is in the latest round of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, with more than £300 million awarded in the form of 2,700 grants announced yesterday. Among them is the Hall for Cornwall in Truro, given £100,000 ahead of its reopening later this year and the unveiling of its newly rebuilt and renamed Cornwall Playhouse theatre.
READ NEXT: The venue has been undergoing a multi-million pound transformation over the last three years and will use this grant to re-engage with audiences across Cornwall, for stage programme and technical preparations.
An innovative new music venue is coming to Gloucester
Ambitious plans for a new music venue and recording studio for young people in Gloucester, by county charity The Music Works, are well and truly on track.
Ambitious plans for a new music venue and recording studio for young people in Gloucester have been unveiled.
After years searching for a place to create a live music venue and studio for young people in Gloucestershire the dream was close to a reality, then came the pandemic – and then something incredible happened.
It was almost a fairytale in the making pre-Covid 19 – The Music Works, a modest Gloucestershire charity with very little money supporting some of the county’s young people through music, was close to unveiling something really special.
We have listed four developments expected for Wimbledon 2021 Wimbledon has entered the new year with a surge in developments across the town. From new homes to creative spaces, residents in Wimbledon are set to benefit from a range of new projects. Business district Love Wimbledon say the developments will further enhance the great features that Wimbledon already has to offer. Below we have listed the four developments brought to our attention by Love Wimbledon.
Hartfield Walk Goes Green Love Wimbledon has secured funding of £120,000 from Merton Council to create Hartfield Walk . The team at Love Wimbledon will join forces with creative business Firecracker Works, to transform the underused space between Blacks and Robert Dyas on The Broadway.