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The academy museum's main attraction is its now famous 409,000-square-foot building, designed by Renzo Piano, which seemed to turn the old, dark rooms and cabinets of specimens of the natural history museum on their heads.
In a further radical measure aimed at boosting the economic attraction of academies, the Education Secretary is also examining proposals for academy schools who control large sites to be able to sell off or sub-let former council-owned land, with the money used to rebuild or improve schools.
Developers PSL Land said they hoped the 86 acre site at Straiton would host a world-class production facility, film academy with student residence, visitor attraction and hotel.
One of the attractions of the academy is that no sweat-inducing auditions are required to get in, and few people were rejected.
The five-month-old, 8,000-square-foot Henry R. Luce Pavilion, the first permanent home for the academy's historic and contemporary Hawaii art, is the stellar attraction.
Her ability to triumph despite the academy's neglect, and her roles as damaged, emotional wrecks ("Fatal Attraction," "Sunset Boulevard," "Damages," Cruella), have created ardent fans.
CNN's sister company, Turner, will launch a Cartoon Network animation academy in twofour54 in September, and production studios next year.A big attraction for foreign media firms is that Abu Dhabi does not have a corporation tax.
Harry and most of the Weasley children are headed for Hogwarts, the academy of magic that Ms. Rowling has turned into the series' most seductive attraction, what with mischievous, mobile portraits on the walls and studies like Potions and Care of Magical Creatures.
A grade behind Murphy, Rodriguez weighed the attraction of his hometown team and friends against the benefits of academy training and playing against the best competition available, even if practices were more than an hour's drive away and game travel — along the Eastern Seaboard, stretching into Virginia — was typically much farther.
But it was the academy's cathedral-like chapel that seized the public imagination, becoming Colorado's top man-made tourist attraction.
