In America, there are hundreds of Jewish Community Centres in both urban and country-locations. Yet the idea had never taken root in the UK until philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield took a tour of the American examples and decided to donate £25m towards setting up a London version via her Clore Duffield Foundation. Designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the 30,000ft2 centre is due to open next September, a decade after Duffield first had the idea.
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