All Heritage articles – Page 79
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Tories decry likely axing of heritage bill
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid into the government’s policy on heritage following BD’s report that the bill was likely to be dropped from next month’s Queen’s Speech.
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Building StudyEric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision.
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Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch
The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled.
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NewsHistoric Berlin airport closes
The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support.
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NewsHeritage bill rethink after costs disputed
The cost of implementing the heritage protection bill is likely to be far more than estimated, the government has admitted.
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NewsEH’s Heritage Counts report calls for ‘recycling’ of older buildings to cut CO2 emissions
English Heritage today called on the government to recycle and adapt older buildings to help meet carbon reduction targets.
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Building StudyHût Architecture’s slice of white
Hût has refurbished two central London townhouses in typically eclectic style for film company White House Post Production, reports Jessica Cargill Thomson. Photos by Kilian O’Sullivan
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NewsEric Parry Architects completes £36m restoration of St Martin-in-the-Field
Eric Parry Architects this month finally completes its £36 million refurbishment of St Martin-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square, London, some six and a half years after winning the commission.
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NewsEH lists its top 20 heritage projects
Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.
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NewsWalker church listed
A modernist church designed by Derek Walker — the former chief architect of Milton Keynes — has become the first 20th century building to be listed this year.
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NewsListing threat to Chelsea Barracks development
English Heritage has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme by recommending a Victorian chapel on the site be listed at grade II.
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ReviewCelebrating the best of Scotland’s architectural heritage
To mark the opening of the Scottish Pavilion, BD goes in search of the buildings and structures that epitomise the country and its people
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NewsNatural History Museum unveils images of CF Møller’s extension
The Natural History Museum has released the first pictures of the second phase of its state-of-the-art Darwin Centre, a scientific research and collections facility designed by Scandinavian architect C F Møller.
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OpinionShould Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?
Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important
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NewsHodge grants Sherborne’s Shell House grade I listing
Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has listed the Shell House in Sherborne, Dorset, at grade I, labelling it a “great example of British craftsmanship at its best”.
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TechnicalTechniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house
The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core
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Hodge criticised over heritage bill
Culture minister Margaret Hodge has been slated by MPs over the draft heritage protection bill, which they claim will cost far more to implement than claimed and is badly undermined by a lack of local authority skills.
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Listing bid threatens Waterloo ambitions
Argument brews over architectural merits of London station
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Building StudyLong live Lubetkin’s republic
Tecton’s Spa Green Estate, a legacy of 1930s radical housing policy in north London, has been sensitively restored to pay homage to its original ambitions, reports James R Payne