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Making a Splash at the City of Dreams

The crowning attraction of the many multi-media and live entertainment venues at the City of Dreams complex in Macau will be the Dragone aqua spectacular, House of Dancing Water, which is ... View
August 06 2010

Thea award for the Tree of Prosperity

At the 15th Annual Themed Entertainment Association’s Thea awards, the Wynn Macau’s Tree of Prosperity was awarded for its ‘outstanding achievement – casino attraction&rsquo... View
August 06 2010

Libya Celebrates with Stage Technologies

In August 2009, Stage Technologies took its first booking in Africa at the 40-year celebrations in Libya. The Tripoli event was a spectacular celebration of African culture, history and wildlife wi... View
August 06 2010

Waking up to Wireless!

Some say it’s the future of automation in theatre, so it was fitting that Mark Ager, managing director of Stage Technologies London, was invited to talk about wireless technology at a recent ... View
August 06 2010

Long Live the King!

Cirque du Soleil’s newest spectacular and seventh resident production - Viva ELVIS™ – delighted audiences with a special performance in January to celebrate Elvis Presley... View
August 06 2010

The Phantom Returns - Love Never Dies

Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's continued story of The Phantom of the Opera, unfolds at the turn of the 20th century in Phantasma, a fabulous showground in Coney Island, Ne... View
August 06 2010

Everything stacks up at the Wyly - The world's first ‘vertical theatre’ in Dallas

In traditional theatres, auxiliary support spaces (such as make-up rooms, rehearsal studios, set build, storage and offices) are positioned around a core space of auditoria. The Wyly architecture t... View
August 06 2010

From Arizona to Australia - the world’s ‘first global musical instrument museum’

Music is the oldest language on Earth and one we all instinctively recognise, regardless of nationality or age; but do we really realise what an important role music has played, and still plays, in... View
August 06 2010

Double Accolade for Stage Technologies

The stage engineering specialists have been recognised in two top business league tables published by the Sunday Times.

In September 2009, London-based Stage Technologies was listed numb... View
August 06 2010

An Epic Launch for Norwegian Cruise Lines

The newest £800m giant of the seas to set sail from the cruise company Norwegian Cruise Lines is the much-anticipated 'Norwegian Epic'. The ship is not just Norwegian’s latest addition ... View
August 06 2010

PC Wing takes off!

PC Wing is Stage Technologies latest compact theatre automation training tool, designed with versatility and simplicity in mind. The console enables students and automation technicians to learn to ... View
August 06 2010

Split pulley reels in award

At the ABTT Theatre Show awards, the newest innovation from the Stage Technologies mechanical design team took the prize for 'Best Engineering Product 2010'. The split pulley is a simple mechanism ... View
August 06 2010

Supportline summer round up

Support for cruise ships is sometimes a challenge as the venue is often doing its best to get away from you! So far this year, we've made scheduled and unscheduled site visits onboard Princess Crui... View
August 06 2010

Waddesdon Manor to have website redesigned by Cogapp

Cogapp has been commissioned by Waddesdon Manor, one of the most famous and beloved National Trust sites in England, to refresh and rede... View
July 14 2010

Cogapp visualises election data for The Sunday Times

The new website for The Sunday Times showcases the first phase of Cogapp’s work relating to the visualisation of public data, with a focus on ... View
July 14 2010

Cogapp wins MUSE award for work on MoMA website

Our work on the redevelopment of The Museum of Modern Art's website has recently won a Bronze View
July 14 2010

BFI appoints Cogapp to develop new digital experience

Following a competitive public tender, we are pleased to announce that we have been appointed by the British Film Institute to create a new digital experience at ... View
July 14 2010

BugWorld is Evolving!!

Since opening in July 2009, the BugWorld Experience in Liverpool has generated huge interest worldwide from the public, from the media, from towns and citi... View
July 05 2010

Chicago’s new gateway to science

Science Projects have recently installed exhibits for a new ‘Science Park’ in Chicago, USA. Garoon’s Gateway to Science is a new... View
June 25 2010

Redbox Multimedias installs Curious George

Redbox Multimedias have just installed an interactive touch screen system incorporating Curious George onboard the Stena Line ferry, Stena Europe. The system is for younger children aged from three... View
June 13 2010

Imagemakers open office in China

Imagemakers, the specialist UK heritage interpretation design consultancy have been working in China as part of the Heritage and Tourism International (HTI) consortium – a group created throu... View
May 27 2010

Hong Kong Maritime Museum

Haley Sharpe Design has been awarded the interpretative planning and exhibit design contract for the redevelopment of Hong Kong’s Maritime Museum.

Working in a team led by P&T Arc... View
May 19 2010

Growing Cape Town’s international profile

Cape Town Tourism has partnered with three international public relations agencies to proactively represent the Mother City abroad. The appointments aim to meet the demand for accu... View
February 28 2010

Full steam ahead as Severn Lamb secures largest ever train order

A little piece of England is about to come to a picturesque corner of East Asia. Severn Lamb UK, whose people-moving products are used by some of the world’s most respected attraction operato... View
February 22 2010

Top Stockholm Museum turns to Petersham

The National Historic Museum in Stockholm (www.historiska.se) brought in leading leisure consultancy, Petersham Group when they needed to focus their thoughts rega... View
January 28 2010

BugWorld Eyes Up New Targets

Following their management of the development and opening of the brand new 'BugWorld Experience' in Liverpool's Albert Dock on behalf of Irish investor, Rogers Gro... View
January 28 2010

Great North Museum interactives win BIMA Award

The interactive installations Cogapp produced for the Great North Museum (GNM) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have won a British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Award in the 'Offline: Kiosk, Installation... View
January 27 2010

The National Archives relaunch website using research conducted by Cogapp

The National Archives have recently completed a significant restructuring of their website building on the results of user experience consultancy carried out by Cogapp. Cogapp worked with The Natio... View
January 27 2010

Cogapp to create interactives for new British Library exhibition

We have recently won a highly competitive tender to deliver a range of interactive kiosks for a new exhibition at the British Library, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. Magnificent Maps ... View
January 27 2010

Greg Hadfield joins Cogapp as Director of Strategic Projects

Greg Hadfield, current head of digital development at Telegraph Media Group, will be joining us on 5th March as Director of Strategic Projects. Hadfield, who in his role at Telegraph Media Group ov... View
January 27 2010

Smithsonian becomes Repeat Customer with Global Immersion Dome Upgrade

January 2010 --- The Lelawi Theater at the National Museum for the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington DC, USA, has reopened following the upgrade of the fulldome display system by Global Immersion. ... View
January 21 2010

IVCMedia Supplies AV & IT Infrastructure for Cape Verde Beach Resort and Spa

January 2010: Leading systems integrator IVC Media, has today announced it has been contracted to design and build a state-of-the-art centralised AV, IT, resort security and access control management... View
January 19 2010

HoloVis deliver advanced Dome projection solution at ISE 2010

HoloVis International, one Europe’s leading specialist display solution providers for ultra-high resolution 2D and immersive 3D technologies, will be presenting their latest portable projection dome s... View
January 18 2010

Visual Acuity presents LEEDership in AV and IT Design

Visual Acuity, the independent media and technology consultant of choice to the world’s planetarium, museums and research institutions, will be presenting ‘LEEDership’ in AV / IT Design, Understanding... View
January 12 2010

Calling UK companies supplying leisure venues and attractions

Add your company to this online Directory free of charge by clicking on "UK Companies only" (bottom left on Home Page). You will be asked for brief, outline information on your company so that UKTI, o... View
January 06 2010

5th TiLEzone London

Operators of leisure venues and visitor attractions, and their suppliers, will be treated to the latest in hot new ideas and trends on future proofing new and existing visitor attractions at the fifth... View
December 29 2009