All Heritage articles – Page 82
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Building StudyRestoring a crown jewel
Dixon Jones is set to refurbish the Regent Palace Hotel at the Crown Estate-owned southern end of London’s Regent Street, the central element of the Allies & Morrison masterplan for the area
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Heritage bid for Darwin home is withdrawn
The government has withdrawn its bid to have Charles Darwin’s home made a world heritage site.
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Building StudyOn the terraces
Urban Splash assembled a winning team to deliver its Chimney Pot Park in Salford, which turns traditional concepts of terraced housing upside-down
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News
Scottish heritage HQ split into flats
Oberlanders Architects has won planning permission for a £5 million project to convert Scottish National Heritage’s former headquarters in Edinburgh into flats.
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Building StudyThe history of the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment
BD charts the progress of Allies and Morrison's Royal Festival Hall revamp
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NewsRefurbished Festival Hall rejects claim of ‘vandalism’
Allies & Morrison was forced to defend its £111 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment at its official unveiling this week.
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Building StudyMusical chairs
Allies & Morrison’s makeover of the much-loved Royal Festival Hall has been hailed as a respectful transformation, but do the changes go too far
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NewsRoyal Festival Hall refurb comes under fire
Allies & Morrison, the architect of the £115 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment, has been forced to defend its work at the unveiling of the renovated building.Speaking at the press launch today, Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, said the heritage group deeply regretted the controversial loss of ...
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Building StudyArtists colony gains a new heart
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Spike Island’s studio and exhibition space in Bristol strives to create a greater sense of community without losing any of the centre’s sense of vitality.Pictures by Ioana Marinescu
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Building StudyPreservation society
Long & Kentish Architects, working with Colin St John Wilson, has added the latest flourish to the latter’s British Library. And the Centre for Conservation is arguably an even better building. Pictures by Peter Durrant
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Building StudyHackney’s rose- tinted spectacle
The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings
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Building StudyA Russian resurrection
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyLocked up in luxury
As part of a £35 million development, Architects Design Partnership and Jestico & Whiles have been doing time at Oxford’s ancient prison, converting it to a boutique hotel. Photographs by Mark Bramley and Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyAnother world
An extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum, as well as providing urgently needed gallery space, will create a new gateway into the neglected Sydney Gardens
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Building StudyAsprey & Garrard, New Bond Street, London W1
Foster & Partners' design for the flagship London store reflects the jewller's bold vision
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Building StudyGod save the village green
Dow Jones’s house in Walberswick has retained the original 1920s facade to the village green, but behind lies a radical new block — as well as its own local shop. Pictures by Christian McDonald
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News
PRP plans homes for historic airfield
PRP Architects has submitted a 425-home redevelopment of the historic Cardington Airfield site in Bedford for planning.
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Building StudyCool heads at city hall
The architect’s acute observations of Cork and conceptual understanding of the city’s urban context have produced a splendid extension to the city hall. Pictures by Dennis Gilbert/View