All Conservation articles – Page 3
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OpinionA disaster foretold: how a decade of high-rise architecture has blighted London’s skyline
Nine years on from NLA’s ‘London’s Growing Up’ exhibition, Barbara Weiss assesses the impact tall buildings have had on the capital
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Building StudyFlaxmill Maltings: FCBStudios' restoration of the world's first iron-framed building
When Historic England took on restoration of an 18th-century flax mill, the plan was to preserve a piece of history and give a unique industrial building a new sense of purpose
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FeaturesCan demolition ever be better than retention?
A 1920s facade’s poor condition left the project team wondering whether it would have been less carbon intensive to knock it down and start again
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OpinionThe M&S Oxford Street inquiry was a clash of world views
We must stop trying to solve our 21st century problems with 20th century thinking, writes Simon Sturgis
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ReviewPeter Marlow’s The English Cathedral: ‘Creeping towards eternity’
Giles Heather finds an exhibition of Peter Marlow’s English cathedral photographs evokes a medieval sense of longing and hope
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ReviewReview | A moment in time: The disappearing architecture of the Bengali Renaissance
To fully understand the Bengali Renaissance we need to understand and preserve its architecture, writes Megan Kirkpatrick
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ReviewReview | Brutalist Britain by Elain Harwood
Jenny Marris reviews a new book on the architecture that defined an era
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OpinionWhy the M&S public inquiry matters
We must seize this opportunity to change the course of construction, writes Henrietta Billings
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OpinionConservation and the climate emergency
Our built heritage has an important role to play in addressing the climate emergency. We must allow it to adapt, writes Laura Baron
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ReviewReview | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
Emma Dent Coad enjoys a book on twentieth-century houses and wonders whether it has lessons to teach us about the current housing crisis
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from making better use of listed buildings?
A building should not be treated like an old pot in a museum - we need a more robust approach to listed structures, says Anna Beckett
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Building StudyBuilding study: The Marlo by Barbara Weiss Architects
This extensive refurbishment and restoration project in Marylebone provides impact without the need to shout about it, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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OpinionRebuild the Mack, but why stop there?
Mackintosh’s devastated art school is not the only significant building in Glasgow that should be rebuilt, argues Ben Flatman
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BlogsSir David vs the Marquis
Elizabeth Hopkirk questions BD readers’ pragmatic response to David Chipperfield’s demolition plan
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BlogsThe camera never lies
Elizabeth Hopkirk finds archive photographs of the South Bank Centre tell a selective story
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BlogsBeen a long time gone, Constantinople
Elizabeth Hopkirk visits Istanbul and finds conservation in the palimpsest city is a hot topic
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BlogsBees for Cities
“We need to remember the creepy crawlies things” was the message of the Architecture Foundation’s Inmidtown Habitats exhibition
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BlogsHow the Greeks bailed us out
A transplanted temple of Apollo in a Hertfordshire village is one of the wonders of England
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BlogsTreasures from the skip
George Saumarez Smith visits a remarkable collection of building artefacts
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