The building is now rapidly taking shape. I walked into one of the downstairs rooms today, through a doorway and looked out to sea through a window. Well almost, the block work is only about 1m high. I did however for the first time really get a sense of one of the many spaces in…
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Mareel is officially off the ground
Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on November 18th, 2009 1 CommentIt has been a good day on the Mareel site. After 6 months of work under the ground it’s now all go above. A significant milestone in any construction project is the point that the first blocks are laid. That milestone was reached today.
The underground work has gone well and apart from some minor…
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Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on September 27th, 2009 No CommentsIts been a while since the last update on the construction of Mareel so here is the latest news.
Piling works were completed on Friday 21st August.
Car park – rock excavation has been completed and work started on grading the site to underside of base course (the level before the final surface – tarmac…
July Mareel site progress in images
Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on July 28th, 2009 No CommentsOur main contractor and their piling subcontractor are making good progress. The major groundworks are now well underway with the piling contractor busy drilling down to bed rock, then filling the deep narrow holes with reinforced concrete. These 100+ piles will effectively provide a set of stilts that the building will sit on.…
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Posted by Mary Smith on July 24th, 2009 No CommentsAs of this weekend anyone with an interest in Shetland’s largest public art project will be able to keep up with its progress on a new web site, www.mirriedancers.com…
Mirrie Dancers, commissioned by Shetland Arts, invites the public to join with artists Nayan Kulkarni and Roxane Permar in creating a series of lightworks that will