Arts and Cultural Centre - Diaries

Monday 22 September to Friday 26 September - The regular progress meeting with the Scottish Arts Council took place this week. All of our activity is now focussed on the fund-raising effort and on gaining certainty on funding. The recent problems with the economy have not...

Monday 28 April to Friday 2 May - We met with the Scottish Arts Council representative this week to update him on the latest position regarding design development and the costing of the latest scheme. An up to date cost plan on the scheme development to Stage E in the RIBA...

Monday 21 April to Friday 25 April - On Monday evening the latest proposals for the Arts & Cultural Centre were presented to an invited audience of about 60 people who are active in the local arts scene. The design has reached a fairly advanced stage so it was possible to...

The design of the Arts & Cultural Centre has recently reached Stage E in the RIBA plan of work. This was marked by KI receiving from the Architects a full report on all aspects of the detailed design. The information now available is at a very detailed level and is being...

We had our regular progress meeting with the Scottish Arts Council this week. The Arts Council is committed to a significant grant contribution towards the project (£1.7M) and therefore has a process in place for monitoring progress. The most significant areas of...

The design of the Arts & Cultural Centre is progressing well. The Design Team is now getting down to dealing with the detail. Where do lifts go? How many toilets and where do they go? What kind of kitchen is required, how will the catering be organised and consequently...

The KI Team working on the Arts & Cultural Centre met this week with a representative of the Scottish Arts Council to report on progress. This is part of a series of regular progress meetings. We were able to report good progress on the appointment of the Design Team and...

This week we had our regular progress review meeting with the Scottish Arts Council. We discussed work which has taken place over the last few months including: • the appointment of the Project Architect • preparation work for the establishment of the Trust...

Grant Williams, the Arts & Cultural Centre Development Officer, has been in post for just over a month now. He has been getting familiar with the history of the project and starting his review of the programme, the business plan and the building proposals. He and I met...

We had one of our regular meetings with the Scottish Arts Council this week. The meeting identified the key activities which need to be prioritised. We were able to report the general outcome of the selection process for the Design Team which will take our current proposals...