All Conservation articles – Page 3

  • The Marquis of Lansdowne
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    Sir David vs the Marquis

    2013-01-28T10:38:00Z

    Elizabeth Hopkirk questions BD readers’ pragmatic response to David Chipperfield’s demolition plan

  • The South Bank Centre
    Blogs

    The camera never lies

    2012-08-02T08:21:00Z

    Elizabeth Hopkirk finds archive photographs of the South Bank Centre tell a selective story

  • Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
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    Been a long time gone, Constantinople

    2012-05-30T15:56:00Z

    Elizabeth Hopkirk visits Istanbul and finds conservation in the palimpsest city is a hot topic

  • Blogs

    Bees for Cities

    2012-04-12T10:49:00Z

    “We need to remember the creepy crawlies things” was the message of the Architecture Foundation’s Inmidtown Habitats exhibition

  • Ayot St Lawrence
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    How the Greeks bailed us out

    2012-03-21T13:08:00Z

    A transplanted temple of Apollo in a Hertfordshire village is one of the wonders of England

  • The Brooking collection
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    Treasures from the skip

    2012-01-31T08:46:00Z

    George Saumarez Smith visits a remarkable collection of building artefacts

  • What crisis?
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    Are we really heading for a housing crisis?

    2012-01-10T08:56:00Z

    John McRae examines the statistics for home numbers in the UK

  • the original Spode factory site (in use 1720-2008) in Stoke-on-Trent
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    Manufacturing our heritage

    2011-11-10T08:26:00Z

    A visit to the former Spode factory throws up a wealth of questions about the best way to manage our historic industrial buildings

  • Drake Circus- Carbuncle cup 2006 winner
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    Learning from Drake Circus

    2011-09-01T16:13:00Z

    As BD’s Carbuncle Cup is awarded this week for the worst piece of architecture in Britain, I look back at the original ‘winner’ from 2006.

  • Eco Avant-garde by Heini Van Niekerk
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    Eco Avant-garde

    2011-08-19T10:04:00Z

    We should not forget that this planet is the only balance we have to maintain.

  • Learning to Love Conservationism
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    Learning to Love Conservationism

    2011-07-28T16:39:00Z

    To conserve or not to conserve, that is the question

  • Blogs

    Modern architecture 1 Civil War purists 0

    2010-04-06T10:03:00Z

    The battle to save Richard Neutra's 1960s Cyclorama building in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA, rages on but the architectural preservationists have won a minor victory in this very modern war.Back in 2008, BD reportedthat Neutra's building had received a stay of execution after thanks to a law suit filed by campaigners ...