All Heritage articles – Page 84
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Building Study
Barbican refurbishment by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Never again will culture-going Londoners miss the beginning of a Barbican performance: AHMM leads them through the muddled maze via new ‘portals’ and pedestrian routes
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News
Heritage Lottery to grant £13m in Townscape scheme
Lottery funding of £13 million has been earmarked to regenerate towns and cities across the UK in the latest round of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Townscape Heritage Initiative.
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News
Lloyd’s recalls Flacq as listing row rumbles on
Lloyd’s of London has recalled Flacq, a young practice formed of ex-Richard Rogers staffers, to look at the future of its iconic headquarters following rows over its potential listing.
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News
Experts to review ‘radical’ heritage plans
Government-appointed experts are to meet in the next two weeks to review the “radical” Heritage White Paper, set to be published before Christmas.
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Building StudyBrunswick Centre refurbishment by Patrick Hodgkinson
Now that the Brunswick Centre’s winter gardens, concrete walkways and shops have been remodelled by the original architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, with Levitt Bernstein, this modernist icon is ready to face a new era.
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Opinion
Heritage site has great modern hope
I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.
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Opinion
Fear of the future is Betjeman’s legacy
Should John Betjeman be remembered for saving St Pancras and the Albert Bridge rather than his poetry?
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Building StudyThermae Bath Spa by Grimshaw Architects
Three years overdue, Grimshaw Architects’ Thermae Bath Spa has become one of the longest running sagas in British construction. On the eve of its opening, Ellis Woodman discovers if it has been worth the wait.
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News
Commonwealth threat spurs heritage groups
Heritage groups have sprung into action to oppose the leaked government proposal to delist the Commonwealth Institute via a parliamentary bill (News June 2).
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Opinion
Is the listing system set for demolition?
Whatever your view is about the merits of RMJM’s Commonwealth Institute, the decision by Tessa Jowell to seek its demolition through a special act of parliament should not come as a total surprise.
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Opinion
Uniting old and new to create rich legacy
Last week Peter Rees said he could not understand why English Heritage has commissioned a study of the whole Smithfield/ Farringdon area (News April 7).
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News
Heritage groups protest over Trellick Tower refurb
Heritage groups are attempting to block John McAslan & Partners' refurbishment plans for London's Trellick Tower.
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NewsHeritage projects in jeopardy as lottery funding is slashed
The single largest source of funding for the regeneration of Britain's rundown built heritage is facing a massive budget cut.
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News
Heritage can make you money, developers told
English Heritage reached out to developers this week with a guide for developing projects in the historic environment.
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News
Liverpool takes heritage hardline
The new leadership of Liverpool City Council will take a strong pro-heritage stance, refusing to "sit back and accept" the kind of proposals it would have "welcomed in the 1990s", it said this week.
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News
Place for heritage in Stratford
English Heritage has insisted the 28 listed buildings across the Olympics site will not obstruct development and in fact should be retained as a way to engage the local community in the masterplan.
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Technical
Recreating a secret history
Artist Sadie Murdoch’s photographs portray two women’s role in modernism
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Building StudyMaking history
Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations?
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News
Murphy comes home to restore historic warehouse
Richard Murphy has won his first project in his home town of Manchester: the refurbishment of one of the world’s most significant 19th century warehouses.