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Image:courtesy of Braaksma & Roos Future Cities Forum's entries to its cultural category - Summer Awards 2026 - are all inspired by the sea. They include Amsterdam's 'The Drift Museum', Hull Maritime Museum and the Larrakia Cultural Centre, Darwin, Australia The Drift Museum, Amsterdam, set to open in 2026 in Amsterdam’s historic Van Gendt Hallen industrial complex, renovated by architecture firm Braaksma & Roos, is dedicated to the Dutch artist duo Studio Drift, renowned wor

Image: CGI Bristol cityscape with Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus right foreground - courtesy Buro Happold Future Cities Forum will be at the Bristol Innovations Zone, next to Temple Meads Station for its 'Innovation Cities' discussion event this October. The forum will discuss how Bristol and the City Region is powering its science and innovation offer and how it can provide the environment for social inclusion, housing and better connected transport. The University of Bris

Image: courtesy of Manchester City Council Manchester City Council is looking to appoint a multidisciplinary team to shape a coordinated public realm and movement strategy for the St Mary’s Parsonage neighbourhood. A strategic regeneration framework (SRF) for the St Mary’s Parsonage area, the Council reports, was agreed in August 2020 to help guide the principles for development in the area, which is bound by Bridge Street, Deansgate, The River Irwell and Blackfriars Road. A

Image: Blackpool Council. Blackpool Council has been invited by the Department for Transport’s £1bn Structures Fund to submit plans to repair and refurbish the historic Grade II listed North Promenade colonnades between the Metropole Hotel and Gynn Square. Almost one kilometre in length, the colonnades include three sections: Lower Walk at Gynn Square Crescent, Middle Walk from Warley Road to Pleasant Street and Princess Parade by the Metropole. Built between 1910 and 1925,

Image: Sainsbury Centre, East Anglia, photo courtesy of Peter Couch. The Sainsbury Centre has secured a £91.2m donation that will be used to refurbish the building, which is part of the University of East Anglia (UEA) campus in Norwich, writes the Museums Association. The money has come from Gatsby, a charitable foundation created by David Sainsbury, the son of Robert Sainsbury. The art museum was opened in 1978 after Robert Sainsbury and his wife Lisa Sainsbury donated their

Image: Rotterdam skyline courtesy Robin Utrecht Following Future Cities Forum's discussion event, hosted by EY at More London Place, on 'Tall buildings and sustainable cities' in the UK, two further discussions were carried out to gain a European perspective. Contributing to these interviews were Emiel Arends, the City of Rotterdam's Urban Designer, who has worked on several masterplans in the city (Wilhelminapier and RCD), co-authored the inner-city plan and who works on str

Image: Roz Bird courtesy of Anglia Innovation Partnership Future Cities Forum is delighted that Roz Bird, Chief Executive of Norwich Research Park, will be speaking at our 'Science Cities' discussion event in June, hosted by the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. A Chartered Surveyor, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Roz joined Norwich Research Park as Chief Executive Officer, for Anglia Innovation Partnership, the campus management company,

Image: Vicky Stanbury, courtesy of Imperial War Museums Future Cities Forum is delighted that Vicky Stanbury, Executive Director, IWM, responsible for Commercial, Operations, Visitor Experience, Volunteering & Engagement, Digital Transformation, and Vision & Purpose across Imperial War Museum's five branches will be speaking at our 'New model science and innovation districts' event at Wellcome Genome Campus this June . She will also be joined at the event by Jo Saunders, Hea

Image: view of the White Tower and inner keep of the Tower of London with 'Walkie Talkie' tall building at 20 Fenchurch Street City of London in the distance - March 2026 At our recent 'Cultural Cities' forum hosted by Historic Royal Palaces at the Tower of London, both the City of London Corporation and Historic England spoke about the need to enable growth while preserving heritage. The Corporation of London's Design Lead Tom Nancollas joined the Co-CEO of Historic England

Image: courtesy of Ridge & Partners Future Cities Forum's part three of its 'Sustainability and tall buildings' report from a discussion event hosted at EY in London, looks at the tragedy of Grenfell and the Building Safety Act. Ridge, Pilbrow & Partners and LDA Design all comment in this report about improvements in construction as well as consulting the community about the design of new homes and place-making. Partner at Ridge, Austin Wikner was asked about how construction