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Dubai is shrewdly using Expo 2020 to invest in future infrastructure

Edit The National 26 Apr 2016
Dubai Expo 2020 has made clear its commitment to build permanent infrastructure within the 160,000 square metre site ... London's Great Exhibition of 1851 also left a lasting architectural gem in the spectacular Crystal Palace alongside other cultural institutions along Exhibition Road in South Kensington, an area that has become a tourist trap in itself, nicknamed Albertopolis, after Queen Victoria's husband ... business@thenational.ae....

How the Great Exhibition of 1851 still influences science today

Edit The Guardian 28 Aug 2015
Six million people visited the Crystal Palace to see cutting-edge science and technology. The vast profits generated continue to pay for innovations today. Secretary of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 ... The Commissioners’ first act was to purchase 96 acres of land in South Kensington, and over the next fifty years they established the institutions that make up “Albertopolis” ... Related. 7 May 1851. The Great Exhibition ... ....

The box office cannot be the measure of good art

Edit The Daily Telegraph 03 Jun 2015
Public subsidy is vital if a wide range of arts are to flourish, says Ivan Hewett ... Comments ... Fine, you might say, but why does that mean the state has to be involved? Why not leave the spreading of wisdom and culture's riches to private philanthropy, as it was in the not-so-distant past? After all, wasn't the entire cultural district of South Kensington or 'Albertopolis' created by public subscription, without a penny of public money?....

Expo 2015: what does Milan gain by hosting this bloated global extravaganza?

Edit The Guardian 12 May 2015
Milan’s Expo is one of the most controversial world’s fairs ever staged in Europe ... When pushed, even Expo boosters can point to few events that left a positive, lasting legacy for their cities other than the Victorian originator – which brought us the Crystal Palace and left a great axis of cultural institutions lined up along Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the famed Albertopolis, which the Olympic park is now trying to mimic ... ....

All of This Belongs To You exhibition: The V&A; is a hotbed of popular subversion

Edit The Independent 28 Mar 2015
In which other museum in the world could you see a Bernini sculpture alongside a 3D printed gun? The V&A; is nothing if not eclectic – and this grand old institution devoted to the “decorative arts and design” and perched in the Albertopolis, the cultural swathe cut through stuffy South Kensington by Queen Victoria’s beloved consort, is increasingly intent on shaking things up ... Installation Image ... Arts + Ents news in pictures ... --> ... ....

Lucerne festival’s spirited programme looks for laughs

Edit The Guardian 19 Feb 2015
Oh, and before I leave Rattle, is there a potential clue for a concert that might be coming the way of a certain rotundoid behemoth in the environs of Albertopolis in the late summer, in the shape of Rattle’s performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Vienna Philharmonic and the BBC Proms Youth Choir, which Lucerne will host on 13 ......

London Restaurant Review - Meejana in West London

Edit About.com 27 Jan 2015
A new Lebanese restaurant, Meejana, has taken a gamble on a corner of the Earls Court district that has been something of a revolving door in the past ... Even with the exhibition center closed, the area's accommodations are handy for Albertopolis - the South Kensington concentration of museums named for Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, who led development of the area ... Still, this may be an acquired taste ... What ... SW5 9HPWhen....

Olympicopolis and the London museums and cultural buildings getting a new look in 2015

Edit London Evening Standard 16 Dec 2014
In 2015 London will see the first tasters of an architectural feast that’s being laid out for the city in the form of the expansion and upgrade of the capital’s great cultural buildings ... So Olympicopolis is a welcome counterbalance to the cultural weight of Albertopolis in west London; the historic home of the great suite of Natural History, Science and V&A museums, its music and art schools and the Albert Hall ... That’s about it ... ....

Designs on London: how architectural couple Deborah Saunt and David Hills plan to put their imprint on significant chunks of the capital

Edit London Evening Standard 18 Nov 2014
There is a neat symmetry to an architectural couple who first came to notice by designing an interlocking house for a divorced couple now marking a blooming of their practice by completing their own family home ... The first of these is Albertopolis, a project to upgrade the streets around the Royal Albert Hall and its connections across Kensington Road northwards to the Albert Memorial and then south to the Royal College of Music ... Kooza....

Crystal beauty: Illuminating the structure of matter

Edit BBC News 10 Nov 2014
To reveal the structure of molecules, scientists use a process called X-ray crystallography. Now a photographer has captured images featuring details of the technique, illuminating the structure of matter itself ... The world of science and art merging is nothing new, but crystallography is seen by some as an art form in itself ... Ever since, this cultural hub of London has been known as "Albertopolis" ... Follow Melissa on twitter. ....

Competition to design Olympicopolis centre in Olympic Park

Edit BBC News 21 Jul 2014
The idea for the site to be called Olympicopolis came from the achievements of Prince Albert, who used the proceeds of the 1851 Great Exhibition to create Albertopolis, the 86-acre site around Exhibition Road in South Kensington, which includes the Royal Albert Hall, the ......

Wanted, designers to build £115m cultural centre at Olympic Park

Edit London Evening Standard 21 Jul 2014
An international competition to find designers for a £115 million cultural centre at the Olympic Park was launched today ... The centre is set to open in 2018 ... The name Olympicopolis comes from the achievements of Prince Albert, who used the proceeds of the 1851 Great Exhibition to create Albertopolis, the 86-acre site in South Kensington which includes the Royal Albert Hall, the V&A and the Science Museum. Ads by Google ... Comments ... ....

Smithsonian set sights on Olympic Park for London outpost

Edit The Guardian 20 Jul 2014
Washington DC-based institution in talks with mayor as part of arts and heritage plan for east London site. Runners in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park last month. Photograph. Anthony Upton/REX ... This 86-acre zone, still home to the V&A, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Music, the Royal College of Art, the English National Ballet and the Royal Albert Hall, came to be known as "Albertopolis" ... ....
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