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The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use suburb in Cape Town, South Africa. It is on the site of the oldest working harbour in the Southern Hemisphere. [1] With Table Mountain as its backdrop, [2] the 123-hectare neighbourhood sees millions of people visiting each year. [3] It contains art, entrepreneurs, and sustainable design. [4] [5]
Ships entering the harbour in Table Bay from the east coast of Africa have to round the coast at Sea Point and over the years many of them have been wrecked on the reefs just off-shore. In May 1954, during a great storm, the Basuto Coast (246 tonnes) ended up on the rocks within a few metres of the concrete wall of the promenade. [27]
The Port of Cape Town, South Africa, is situated in Table Bay.. Because of its position along one of the world's busiest trade routes it is one of the busiest ports in South Africa, handling the largest amount of fresh fruit and second only to Durban as a container port.
The V&A Dundee – the first branch of the V&A to operate outside of London – is the main centrepiece of the waterfront project. [7] [8] Today, Dundee is promoted as "One City, Many Discoveries" in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic exploration vessel, which was built ...
On 15 September 2018, the first V&A museum outside London, V&A Dundee, opened. [9] The museum, built at a cost of £80.11m, is located on Dundee's waterfront, and is focused on Scottish design, furniture, textiles, fashion, architecture, engineering and digital design. [ 40 ]
[6] [5] [7] Since 1998, Hartsfield–Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, with the exception of 2020, when its passenger traffic dipped for that year due to travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, the airport served over 104.6 million passengers, the most of any airport in the world. [8]
The Leighton House Museum is an art museum and historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.. The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), who commissioned the architect and designer George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio noted for its incorporation of tiles and other ...
A trailer released for the new version in September 2021 was met with negativity, becoming one of the most-disliked videos on PlayStation's YouTube channel; [75] journalists noted that fans were frustrated by Rockstar's continued focus on the game instead of other projects such as a new Grand Theft Auto game, as well as an lack of apparent new ...