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Transforming the Boroughs
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
What the 33 boroughs are up to with a focus on Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, The City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster.
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Major London Issues
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
This evolving display studies twelve environmental sectors that play a part in development and construction in London. Exhibits and monthly events - seminars, talks and briefings - that relate to each topic will track the major drivers within each sector and assess the impact of government and mayoral policies.
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Pipers Central London Model
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Pipers Central London model forms the centrepiece of the NLA galleries and is built to a scale of 1:1500. Measuring some 12m, the model covers an area from Paddington in the west to The Royal Docks in the east and from Battersea in the south to King's Cross in the north. Major new and proposed buildings with planning permission are highlighted in white, including the Olympic masterplan and a range of new tall buildings set to transform London's skyline.
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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years.
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The Olympic Wall - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - On permanent display
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years. This permanent exhibition displays plans for the Olympic Park and the Olympic and Paralympic venues, and will be updated as plans progress.
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Online Exhibitions
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This virtual exhibition charts the growth of the city by looking at maps of it through the ages. The exhibition is broken down into seven themes, each broadly covering a different period in the city's history.
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Clare Strand and John Kippin were each commissioned by Fotonet-south to research and produce work, specifically for this website, on one or more of the New Towns in Southern England. They have each produced two very different exhibitions online which successfully offer new ways of viewing the contemporary New Town.
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by Clare Strand takes a play by Eugene Ionesco as a starting point for stories of contemporary life in a new town - the Theatre of the Absurd visits Utopia in Surrey to the music of Steve Reich.
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by John Kippin is a cool ironic look at the Developer's Brochure with a scale model of the dream habitat.
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Exhibitions and museums dedicated to urbanism, architecture and design.
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URBIS(continous)
Place: Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, M4 3BG
Urbis is an exhibition centre about city life. Visitors can explore exhibitions about contemporary art & design, urban gardening, the city environment and the people who make our cities what they are.
Five floors of changing exhibitions offer unique insights into the culture of the modern city, about Manchester, art and culture including innovative explorations of design, architecture, graffiti, music and the urban environment.
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Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design (Continous)
Place: Klingelhöferstraße 14, 10785 Berlin, Germany
The Bauhaus was the twentieth century's most important school of design, architecture and art. Its programme and products have maintained their influence on design up to the present day.
Objects from the Collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in the spacious galleries of the Museum.
The building (1976-79), designed by Walter Gropius, also houses a shop, a cafe, a lecture room and the archives which hold an extensive multi-disciplinary book and magazine collection available to view and study.
Audio guides in several languages are available at the reception.
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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre (Continous)
Place: 100 Renmin Dadao, People's Square 200002, Shanghai
This museum showcases Shanghai's rapid ongoing development through models and multimedia displays.
