All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Refurbishment - May 2007
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Features
White space
A prewar building in London’s Hatton Garden, the city’s diamond trading quarter, has been polished up by architect Buckley Gray Yeoman.
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Features‘Refurbishment is true sustainability’
Hawkins Brown has been in demand for creative office conversions for nearly two decades, making it an ideal mentor for upcoming practice Hut Architecture Photographs by Edward Tyler
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FeaturesSteven Parissien
‘Youngsters want to learn conversation skills’ says the new director of education at the Prince’s Foundation
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FeaturesPathfinders search for a route to Kyoto
The government’s nine housing market renewal Pathfinders are to benefit from a research project aimed at finding the most efficient way to bring pre-1919 solid-wall housing up to post-Kyoto insulation standards.
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High point
Form Art Architects has won listed building consent to refurbish the entrance halls to Highpoint 1 & 2, Tecton and Lubetkin’s 1930s apartment blocks in Highgate, north London.
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FeaturesLiving the high life
Doyen of modernist restoration John Winter has been working at High & Over in Amersham since 1994. Here he revisits the building and celebrates the glamour of Amyas Connell’s original concept. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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FeaturesHawksmoor’s heavenly harmonies
Levitt Bernstein director Axel Burrough hears how classical and contemporary have been mixing at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s education and rehearsal centre. Photos by Gareth gardner
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FeaturesHeritage is a touchy issue, so get over it
There is a general presumption that “heritage” means anything built before the first world war. It’s hardly surprising if the public’s instinctive sense of what’s worth keeping coincides with the period when monarchs ruled and Britain was Great.
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FeaturesRaising expectations
A grade II listed neo-classical bank building in Plymouth Hoe has been restored to its role as a local landmark after a refurbishment by Architects Design Group.
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FeaturesThe speed read - Conversions
From Bradford to Barcelona, examples of architects renewing old buildings for residential use and boosting their green credentials into the bargain.
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FeaturesMill change
Architect Jestico & Whiles has been commissioned to convert a disused woollen mill in Lodz, Poland’s Manchester, into a 180-bed hotel for the Andel chain.
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FeaturesStop the bulldozers!
Campaigners are the best hope these buildings have of remaining part of London’s built heritage. Meet three foot soldiers in the fight to protect Britain’s buildings. Photographs by Edward Tyler
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FeaturesGorton arts venue
The Gothic revival church and friary at Gorton Monastery, Manchester, designed by Edward Pugin in 1863, reopens in June as a cultural centre. Austin-Smith Lord was the architect for the £6m refurb funded by lottery and EU monies.
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FeaturesIn the name of sustainability, can architects learn to love the traditional?
People save and reuse old buildings for a host of reasons — romantic, aesthetic, historical.