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Designers unveiled for Southampton's Titanic museum
1:58pm today Monday 13th July 2009
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THE team that will design Southampton’s £15m Titanic museum has been appointed.
In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre.
The museum, which will be built in the west wing of Southampton’s Civic Centre, is to feature a massive climb-aboard replica of the doomed liner.
Visitors will experience life on board the ill-fated voyage from the perspective of the crew, many of whom were from Southampton.
The civic centre’s former magistrates’ courts and police station will be dramatically turned into a dockside scene showing Titanic about to depart.
Consulting engineers Gifford will be responsible for all the mechanical and structural work, while the task of ensuring the project stays within budget will be overseen by global construction consultancy Davis Langdon.
The innovative architectural and design company Urban Salon has also been appointed as the museum designers to develop educational, original and fun ways to communicate the historical stories within the museum.
Focus Consultants, who are already working with the council on the Tudor House revamp, have been appointed as project managers.
Councillor John Hannides, Cabinet member for leisure, culture and heritage said: “We are very pleased to have such a good quality team working with us on this landmark project.
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Brite Spark, Titchfield Haven says...
2:19pm Mon 13 Jul 09
soton1980, Southampton/Winchester/Fareham says...
5:21pm Mon 13 Jul 09
Boris Remmington wrote:I really do hope that the council don't give millions to these designers to design some total garbage.
Thats £7.5 million spent already
I supported the London 2012 Olympic bid, but was appaled by the absolutely awful logo which cost millions to design. A 2 year old could have done better.
Let us pray that these designers have their heads screwed on and don't have their own agenda. I hope that it won't be some futuristic, ugly looking waste of money as is usually the case.
allsaintsnocurves, Southampton says...
6:04pm Mon 13 Jul 09
It's not going to be Disney World or the Epcot Centre but it's going to be a **** site better museum than we've had so far in the city!...we're just lucky they haven't decided to build it in Portsmouth!
Boris Remmington, Wellow says...
6:16pm Mon 13 Jul 09
TITANIC – undoubtedly the most famous ship in history – may have been built in Belfast and made her ill-fated maiden voyage from Southampton, but it is with Liverpool that she has her strongest and most lasting emotional ties.
The liner was registered here, and bore the inscription ‘Liverpool’: a graphic image captured in the subsequent great movies of the disaster, after the ‘unsinkable’ liner collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic in April 1912, with the loss of 1,500 lives.
As Titanic finally tilted towards her watery grave, and then slid beneath the glassy ocean, it was the word Liverpool, in huge lettering on her stern, which provided the final glimpse of the liner for 73 years, until her wreck was discovered in 1985.
But the local links don’t end there.
Around 100 of the ship’s crew, as well as 17 passengers, came from Merseyside; her captain, Edward John Smith, lived at Waterloo, and Bruce Ismay, chairman of owners White Star Line, had two houses here.
It is therefore fitting that a collection of objects salvaged from Titanic should be added to the dedicated exhibition space at the Maritime Museum.
superchef, marchwood says...
6:16pm Mon 13 Jul 09
thesouth, southampton says...
7:28pm Mon 13 Jul 09
Boris Remmington wrote:ok, chill out
Why built it at all. TITANIC – undoubtedly the most famous ship in history – may have been built in Belfast and made her ill-fated maiden voyage from Southampton, but it is with Liverpool that she has her strongest and most lasting emotional ties. The liner was registered here, and bore the inscription ‘Liverpool’: a graphic image captured in the subsequent great movies of the disaster, after the ‘unsinkable’ liner collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic in April 1912, with the loss of 1,500 lives. As Titanic finally tilted towards her watery grave, and then slid beneath the glassy ocean, it was the word Liverpool, in huge lettering on her stern, which provided the final glimpse of the liner for 73 years, until her wreck was discovered in 1985. But the local links don’t end there. Around 100 of the ship’s crew, as well as 17 passengers, came from Merseyside; her captain, Edward John Smith, lived at Waterloo, and Bruce Ismay, chairman of owners White Star Line, had two houses here. It is therefore fitting that a collection of objects salvaged from Titanic should be added to the dedicated exhibition space at the Maritime Museum.
Pam W, Southampton says...
8:09pm Mon 13 Jul 09
BrixtonSaint, London says...
9:51pm Mon 13 Jul 09
I'm trying to be optimistic here, I really am, but you just know it's going to be an almighty F#%K up
King Mush, Woolston says...
12:34am Tue 14 Jul 09
She may have been registered there and we do have strong maritime links between the two ports.
However- Capt Smith was born in Hanley (Stoke)
I very much doubt if many poor souls actually took the time to look up at the stern whilst fighting for their lives in a freezing sea.
I think you have been watching the DVD too much
fuzzyfelt, soton says...
7:26pm Tue 14 Jul 09
now in the north, bolton says...
10:05pm Wed 15 Jul 09
soton1980 wrote:The 2012 logo is great...it says 2012..but what is the little dot for?
Boris Remmington wrote:I really do hope that the council don't give millions to these designers to design some total garbage.
Thats £7.5 million spent already
I supported the London 2012 Olympic bid, but was appaled by the absolutely awful logo which cost millions to design. A 2 year old could have done better.
Let us pray that these designers have their heads screwed on and don't have their own agenda. I hope that it won't be some futuristic, ugly looking waste of money as is usually the case.
Look harder, it spells Zion much better than it spells 2012!
The corwn is no longer the queen, it is temple bar (law controllers) and the COMPANY of the bank of england (the bank controllers)
People, we are truly screwed unless we can stop the separation of the people.
Your money is worth nothing but your labour. Check out your twenty pounds sterling and tell me where on it is written that it is stirling!!!
You can no longer exchange your cash for gold (it has been stolen and sold to pay the BOE interest) you can only exchange it for larger or smaller denomination of the same money!
Whats more, anything your register (regis-ter) is now signed over to the new crown!
Check out John harris- Its an illusion, or TPUC.org
Jenjo, Southampton says...
8:25pm Fri 7 Aug 09
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Boris Remmington, Wellow says...
2:07pm Mon 13 Jul 09