Can you dig it ? Work starts on new music building
To the heraldic sound of a brass fanfare from some of the University’s musicians, the first hole was symbolically dug for the new Colyer-Fergusson centre for Music Performance on May 27th, and last...
View ArticleNew building: latest images
Work continues on the new Colyer-Fergusson centre for Music Performance, and here’s the latest pictures, courtesy of Tim Ronalds Architects. Images
View ArticleOpen Day: live from the stand!
It’s 9am, and the doors have just opened to this year’s University Open Day; we’ve been here since 8.15 setting up, and the ‘Making Music at Kent’ stand is bursting with colour in the display of...
View ArticleNew building: August images
In the heat of the summer holiday season, things are hotting up with the new centre for Music Performance; the steel girders are beginning to define the outline of the new building. Exciting times! Images
View ArticleBox clever: latest image of the new building
As yesterday’s photograph of the work on the new Colyer-Fergusson centre for Music Performance shows, the fourth wall is now in place, outlined by the steel girders. This gives a clear delineation of...
View ArticleNew building: seeing stairs
With the installation of the main staircase, which will link the foyer and reception areas to the first floor of offices and rehearsal rooms, photos from yesterday’s site visit to the construction of...
View ArticleSee for Niles: crane sprouts on campus
(I know, but, as a Frasier fan, the opportunity was too good to resist, surely ?). The construction site for the Colyer-Fergusson building has this week sprouted a monstrously large crane, which is...
View ArticleMusic featured in the Kent magazine
I’m delighted to see that we’ve been given a double-page spread in the latest issue of the University magazine; the feature includes a review of last year’s Music Scholarship prize-winners; a focus on...
View ArticleMassive (picture) Attack: new hoardings
Since Friday, the hoarding around the construction site of the new Colyer-Fergusson music building has taken on a different aspect – it now features several giant photographs taken by the illustrious...
View ArticleWe’ve been nominated for an award!
We are particularly delighted to reveal that the Colyer-Fergusson music building is one of two buildings from the University which has been shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Institution of British...
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