All Heritage articles – Page 78
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NewsDan Cruickshank attacks Tower Hamlets and English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate.
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MultimediaDan Cruickshank attacks English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens (video)
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate
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NewsEnglish Heritage faces critics at Robin Hood Gardens debate (audio)
At a debate on Robin Hood Gardens at Ecobuild yesterday English Heritage was outnumbered four-to-one by those in favour of listing the estate.
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News20th Century Society seeks more power on delisting
The 20th Century Society is seeking more influence on delisting decisions after Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House was controversially stripped of its grade II status.
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NewsChipperfield's Berlin Neues Museum (video)
Work has completed on David Chipperfield Architects’ dramatic remodelling of the Neues Museum. Take a sneak peak at the renovation work
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NewsRow over de-listing of Sandy Wilson building
Co-architect and widow refute evidence that led to minister’s decision
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NewsLubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre to be sold off to private sector
Berthold Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell, north London, is set to be sold into private hands after NHS officials this morning rejected a last-ditch effort by Architects for Health to preserve the building’s 70-year association with public healthcare.
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Nee to lead McAslan historic team
Pauline Nee is to head up John McAslan & Partners’ historic buildings division.
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Building StudyWright & Wright’s RCA sculpture department refurb
Wright & Wright has imaginatively reorganised the Royal College of Art’s sculpture resource at its south London campus
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OpinionIs it all over for Robin Hood Gardens housing estate?
Yes, residents are in touching distance of having the new homes they want, says council leader Lutfur Rahman; while Alan Powers argues that refurbishment would be a win-win outcome
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English Heritage on Robin Hood Gardens
Read English Heritage's response to the case for the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, and let us know what you think.
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NewsEH unchanged in opposing Robin Hood Gardens listing
English Heritage has refused to alter its opposition to the proposed listing of Robin Hood Gardens.
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Farnborough airship shed listed
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has listed a airship shed in Farnborough, Hampshire, at grade II
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Building StudyThe sublime and the aedicule
Architect David Kohn has teamed up with cult restauranteurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington to create a temporary dining space for the Royal Academy, deploying a host of artists and designers to startling effect.
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic
The temporary exhibition gallery at the Garden Museum on the Thames at Lambeth is a triumph of architectural imagination over budgetary constraint.
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OpinionTraditionalists who do modern
Andrés Duany, he of the Congress for New Urbanism, rocks up in the UK to tell us where modernism went wrong just as the Saudis sit down with Norman and Zaha to discuss the remodelling of central Mecca
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OpinionGoing nowhere on heritage
The government has shelved heritage protection for short-term gain, but the long-term costs will be substantial
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Cross party condemnation as Heritage Protection Bill dropped
MPs from all three main parties have criticised the government's axing of the Heritage Protection Bill from next year’s parliamentary programme, amid claims historic buildings are being put at risk.
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Seven Thames bridges listed
Culture secretary Andy Burnham this week announced the listing of seven bridges across the River Thames on the advice of English Heritage.
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NewsUpset at Follett delisting
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has delisted a London building by Colin St John Wilson, against English Heritage advice.