All Heritage articles – Page 77
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NewsTombs to quit Scottish watchdog
Sebastian Tombs, the chief executive of Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS), the Scottish equivalent of Cabe, is to step down.
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NewsMalvern Sports Dome listed at grade II
Michael Godwin's 1977 Edinburgh Sports Dome in Malvern has been grade II listed.
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NewsCampaign saves Lancashire workhouse building
An historic workhouse building has been saved after a campaign by the Victorian Society.
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NewsEdinburgh Haymarket hotel public inquiry underway
A public inquiry into Richard Murphy’s proposed 19-storey £200 million hotel in Haymarket, Edinburgh, has begun.
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NewsHeritage groups dismayed at Koolhaas's Commonwealth Institute proposal
Battle lines have been drawn over the future of London’s Commonwealth Institute after plans for a radical redevelopment of the grade II* listed building were submitted by Rem Koolhaas and fellow Dutch architect West 8.
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NewsArchitecture minister lists 19 historic military buildings
Nearly 50 military buildings dating from the Napoleonic War to the first world war have been listed or given added protection by architecture minister Barbara Follett.
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NewsBurnham urged to review Wilson house delisting
Twentieth Century Society claims English Heritage is under-resourced
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OpinionTime to face up to the brutalist truth
Channel 4’s Red Riding trilogy suggested a different way of looking at the post-war city
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NewsArchitecture minister Follett lists two 20th Century buildings
Barbara Follett lists school and railway station at Grade II.
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NewsHeritage outcry over Make’s Spurs stadium
Heritage groups have slammed plans to demolish a set of historic buildings on the site of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new north London stadium, following the unveiling of designs by Make Architects, KSS Group and Martha Schwartz Partners last week.
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NewsRIBA told conservation architecture accreditation scheme 'unwise'
Heritage bodies have warned RIBA it will cause confusion by setting up its own accreditation system for conservation architects in direct competition with the existing Architects Accredited in Building Conservation Register (AABC).
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NewsBrace of Oxbridge modernists listed
Modernist university buildings in Cambridge and Oxford by James Stirling and Powell & Moya have been listed, to the delight of heritage groups
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OpinionShould the RIBA introduce a register for conservation architects?
Yes, says Purcell Miller Tritton’s Jeremy Blake, because architects need professional benchmarks as much as any other group; no, says Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder, we need communities of knowledge, not individual registrations
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MultimediaWhitechapel Gallery extension (video)
Take a virtual tour as Ellis Woodman talks to the architects behind the new Whitechapel Gallery extension
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Concern as English Heritage cites Wikipedia in listing submission
Heritage body included user-edited website in key listing submission to government
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NewsListing recognition for West Country architect Mervyn Seal
A 1960s cliff-top house in Devon inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier has been listed.
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OpinionHas English Heritage failed to protect Robin Hood Gardens?
Yes, says Dan Cruickshank, it has utterly failed to realise the estate’s worth and potential; while EH’s Steve Bee says not recommending it for listing doesn’t mean it should be lost
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FeaturesLubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot
Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat
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NewsDeveloper blasts EH’s move to list barracks chapel
The developer behind Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London has launched an all-out attack on English Heritage’s attempt to list a Victorian chapel at the centre of the site
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NewsFollett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.