All Conservation articles
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News
Howells submits plans for Birmingham Botanical Gardens restoration
Scheme has been designed in collaboration with Donald Insall Associates and seeks to strip away previous additions to reveal original heritage structures
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Features
How Oxford Architects set about saving Arne Jacobsen’s RAAC-riddled masterpiece
All the roofs at St Catherine’s College were recently condemned thanks to the presence of RAAC. Thomas Lane reports on how the team came up with a solution that didn’t affect the historical significance of the Arne Jacobsen-designed campus
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News
HTA gets go-ahead for £17.75m Crystal Palace Park restoration
A new dinosaur and geologically themed play area will also be created
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News
JAM Architects submits plans for arts hub in East London
Building will provide affordable workspace, flexible event spaces, a working yard, and versatile maker spaces
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News
Feilden Fowles’ Lake District hotel scheme goes in for planning
Scheme seeks to reimagine historic lakeside hotel and gardens for new era
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Opinion
Historic buildings are never in stasis. Why would it be any different for landscapes?
We need to approach landscape conservation with the same nuance and care that we show to buildings, write Patrick James and Dorian Proudfoot
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News
In pictures: Former Michigan Central Station reopens its doors as research and technology hub
Historic train station to house tech facility
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Opinion
Why is our heritage on fire… again?
The fire at Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange is a reminder that we need to value traditional building skills as much as the buildings themselves, writes Liz Smith
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Building Study
River Wing by Witherford Watson Mann: 'This is the closest we've come to the structure being the architecture'
A Cambridge college seeks to revitalise its historic buildings while respecting tradition and heritage, writes Ben Flatman
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Building Study
Jankes Barn by Lynch Architects: ‘We like to call it a barn non-conversion’
An Essex barn is given a remarkable new lease of life, by reinforcing its relationship with craft and landscape, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
Another irreplaceable slice of Birmingham’s architecture and history is at risk
The city’s disregard for its own heritage threatens one of the country’s oldest cinemas, a theatre once graced by Olivier, and the pub that hosted the first Black Sabbath gig, writes Joe Holyoak
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Features
Opening the King’s Gate at Caernarfon Castle in Wales
Buttress Architects reinvigorates the castle — awarded World Heritage Status in 1986 — to make it accessible to all
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Opinion
The loss of Birmingham’s Ringway Centre is bad news for heritage, net zero and the wider city
Far from showing signs of sophisticated local government decision-making, Birmingham seems more lost than ever, writes Joe Holyoak
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Opinion
The City’s latest conservation area helps protect London’s diverse heritage
The new heritage zone offers welcome protection against loss of daylight and privacy, writes Dan Press
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Opinion
From Le Corbusier to the Sea Cadets: Why ships provide such powerful architectural inspiration
An unusual architectural commission reminds us of the power of incongruity in the English landscape, writes Joe Holyoak
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Opinion
The beauty of creative reuse is that it can bring hope back to the most unlikely places
Bringing life back to the most challenging sites requires hard work, inspiration and a leap of faith, writes Joe Holyoak
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Opinion
Modernist dogma should not prevent us from rebuilding the Crooked House
The belief that we must not reconstruct badly damaged buildings is based on outdated readings of Ruskin and William Morris, writes Andy Foster
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Opinion
The Crooked House is gone. It can’t be reinvented
Any attempt to rebuild the Crooked House would merely produce a ‘worthless fake’, writes Joe Holyoak
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News
£12.26m committed to Commonwealth Heritage Forum’s heritage skills programme
Funding from Hamish Ogston Foundation to mark Charles III’s coronation
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Review
Review | Peter Womersley, by Neil Jackson
James Grimley enjoys a new book on Peter Womersley and hopes that it acts as ‘a rallying call to action’ on preserving the architect’s work