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25/JUN/2007: Cheltenham Art Gallery design competition

New web launch for international architectural design competition.

Today sees the launch of another new Cheltenham-centric website designed and built by ICON.net Limited.

Cheltenham Borough Council is promoting a new architectural design competition, in conjunction with the RIBA, for the design of an extension to the existing Art Gallery & Museum.

The competition is open internationally to architects and architect-led multi disciplinary design teams and, prior to judging of the initial Stage 1 submissions - from which a shortlist of 4 will be selected - all submissions will be displayed within the Art Gallery & Museum and on site at the newly created website www.cheltenhamartgallery.org.uk/buildingforanewfuture

Deadline for registration is 24 August 2007 and the closing date for all submissions is 12 September. Final judging is scheduled for early December.

The site itself has been designed to look very clean, fresh and modern, and features a high level of interactivity - in addition to a photographic showcase that takes you through the Art Gallery & Museum, there's also a clever and unique user FAQ posting facility where answers to questions are not merely posted back to the website, but are accompanied by a simultaneous notification to the user that an answer to their question has been posted.

In another clever idea, the site also uses Flickr which allows architects a more detailed look at the museun with the opportunity to download and comment on images.

The launch of this new site follows on from the launch just last week of the Cheltenham official venue finder service website at www.conferencecheltenham.co.uk and the recently updated version of our Gloucester Heritage URC interactive website at www.gloucesterurc.co.uk and you can find details of both here on our blog.

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