All Heritage articles – Page 80
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Birmingham leader begs Hodge not to list library
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has pleaded with architecture minister Margaret Hodge to grant the city’s Central Library immunity from listing in an extraordinary 4,500-word letter.
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NewsHodge refusal to list snubs profession
Decision not to list estate leaves late 20th century buildings under threat
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Heritage fund awards £23m as budget slashed
The Heritage Lottery Fund has pledged £23 million for threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and a Welsh Georgian town house.
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EH proposes grade II listing for BBC Television Centre
English Heritage has advised culture minister Andy Burnham to list parts of the BBC Television Centre at White City in London at grade II.
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NewsEnglish Heritage looks to public in latest round of Stonehenge visitor centre saga
English Heritage is to launch a public consultation to find a new site for its long-planned Stonehenge visitor centre.
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NewsHeritage Fund pledges £23m for threatened buildings
The Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday pledged £23 million for scores of threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and Georgian town house in Llanelli in Wales.
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NewsCouncil anger as EH asks for Birmingham library listing
Birmingham Council has harshly criticised the city’s central library after English Heritage recommended the 1973 building be grade II listed.
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NewsAqueduct heritage status nearer
The grade I listed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal (pictured) in north-east Wales has moved a step closer to being shortlisted for Unesco world heritage site status.
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NewsEx heritage minister calls for RHG listing
Margaret Hodge must reject advice from English Heritage and grant Robin Hood Gardens the grade II listing it deserves, MPs and former Labour heritage minister Alan Howarth have demanded.
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NewsEnglish Heritage defends its failure to back Robin Hood Gardens
EH chair says estate 'fails as a place for human beings to live'. Read the statement; watch the video
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OpinionPutting politics over heritage
English Heritage is favouring self-preservation at the expense of protecting post-war architecture
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Building StudyWright & Wright's Cambridge University Corpus Christi College Campus
When Cambridge University’s Corpus Christi College ran out of undergraduate library space, it engaged Wright & Wright to remodel a former bank it owns on one of the city’s main streets as the Taylor Library, reports Ellis Woodman. Photos by Peter Cook and Dennis Gilbert
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NewsEnglish Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.
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NewsLiverpool council claims heritage is safe with us
Following an open letter from Liverpool planning manager Nigel Lee, BDonline readers hit back at claims that the city's architectural heritage is in safe hands. Simon Taylor claims the city council has "lost the plot in terms of protecting our wonderful architectural legacy"; and David Swift is "appalled by the ...
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NewsHeritage bill could reduce protection of 20th century buildings
Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has refused to rule out changing the draft heritage bill to reduce protection for 20th century architecture.
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NewsEH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool
Two buildings on Liverpool’s threatened world heritage site have been listed as part of the biggest review of a city’s historic building stock ever undertaken.
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Building StudyPractice makes perfect at Haworth Tompkins' National Theatre studio refurb
Haworth Tompkins’ painstaking refurbishment of a 1950s brutalist masterpiece ensures its future as the NT’s secret ideas laboratory, discovers Ellis Woodman
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Building StudySinging the blues at Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre
The famous Liverpool arts centre has been extended and refurbished by Netherlands practice BIQ Architecten
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NewsPressure on Hodge to rethink listing stance
Architecture minister faces near-unanimous opposition to proposals