Creative media and digital arts building

University of Greenwich, UK

The University of Greenwich’s new library and academic building is located along an approach from Greenwich Town to Greenwich Park within Maritime Greenwich. It is the new home for the Department of Creative Professions and Digital Arts and the Department of Architecture and Landscape.
Drama by Design were engaged by the University to finalise the design, co-ordinate and project manage the insta .. read more

Edge Hill University Creative Edge

Creative Edge is a new creative media building at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk.
It is an exciting £18M state-of-the-art building housed on the landscaped Eastern Campus of the University’s main Ormskirk site, providing high-spec suites of industry-standard facilities for students studying Media, Film, Animation, Advertising and Computing.
The new teaching and learning building is designed t .. read more

Bitterne Park School, Southampton, UK

Bitterne Park School is a thriving secondary school for 1,430 pupils aged 11-16, which is rated as outstanding by Ofsted. Drama by Design worked as theatre consultants on the design and specification of the new £6.3M Sixth Form Centre which caters for up to 180 6th form pupils and incorporates a 120 seat theatre to reflect the school’s specialism in performing arts, drama/dance studios, film st .. read more

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

The new £37.6m student-centred building at Clarence Street enables LJMU to consolidate its teaching within the Mount Pleasant Campus. It will also provide a new Centre for the Liverpool Screen School.
The Screen School incorporates a professional standard Main TV studio, a smaller similarly equipped News TV Studio, four voice/audio recording booths, a fully equipped radio studio, green room, cont .. read more

Archbishop Holgates School, York, UK

The new £4.3 million building – to be known as the LearningCentre@AHS – is stuffed full of the latest equipment and technology. The emphasis at the new centre is very much on hands-on, vocational learning, as much as purely academic study.
The building is a stunning and modern two-storey block with a glass front wall, curved roof, and large windows facing the school’s playing fields.  The .. read more

Scarborough Spa Pavilion, UK

The Grand Hall is excellent when used for its original purpose, as a Concert Hall.  In the current economic climate and with changing audience demands, concerts form only a part of the programme and adaptation to enable other types of entertainment and public benefit is now required.
Drama by Design were employed as theatre consultants to look at two aspects of the proposed refurbishment of the b .. read more

Arts Theatre, Bahrain

This was a brand new 750 seat theatre built on the outskirts of Manama in Bahrain. The theatre is multi purpose, used primarily for plays and musical performances.
Drama by Design worked on the acoustics of the building to ensure good quality sound reproduction. An acoustic simulation software program was used to predict the acoustics of the space and the performance of the proposed sound system.
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Capel Soar Arts Centre, Wales, UK

Capel Soar is an imposing Baptist Chapel in Penygraig, Mid Rhondda originally built in 1832, burnt down in 1861 and the existing Chapel rebuilt in 1902, it retains some of the original features. It functions as a multi-purpose community centre offering local people a wide range of opportunities to be involved in Play, Youth, Arts and Training activities. The age span is 0 – 90+.
The venue is cur .. read more

Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, UK

The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham has recently undergone a £1.2 million refurbishment to create an arts hub in the area fit for the 21st century.
With a fully equipped auditorium, a studio theatre, rehearsal rooms, a café and gallery the new look arts centre offers first class facilities for people living in and around North Wiltshire.
The historic grade II listed building was originally built as .. read more

Liverpool John Moores University ADA, UK

The new £27 million new Art and Design Academy at Liverpool John Moores University is a five storey glass-fronted building that provides a new home for all art and design courses. The building houses art and design studios, technical and teaching facilities, exhibition areas and galleries, alongside a 350-seat multi purpose space. The University plans to stage both international exhibitions and d .. read more