All Heritage articles – Page 65
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NewsBletchley Park restoration secures £4.6m lottery funding
Award brings Kennedy O’Callaghan’s plans one step closer
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News5th Studio to revamp Norwich tower
5th Studio has been appointed to redesign the 11-storey Westlegate building in Norwich, a 1960s tower in the city centre.The building was recently bought by a joint venture between Soho Estates and Norwich-based FW Properties.The London-based practice, which also has an office in Cambridge, was commissioned after an invited competition, ...
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NewsEH grant saves Yarmouth's historic theatre building
The grade I listed St George’s Theatre in the heart of the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth is to undergo urgent repairs thanks to a grant of £250,000 from English Heritage.
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Opinion
Trusts can solve listings threat
One interesting solution to the reported threat to thousands of listed buildings (“New risk to listed buildings” News September 23) might be to start handing over ownership to community trusts.
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NewsJohn Pawson submits plans for Design Museum interior
Listed building consent needed for former Commonwealth Institute
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NewsBennetts to design chapel for grade I listed school
Bennetts Associates has won a competition to design a new chapel and music school in the grounds of the grade I listed Canford School in Dorset.The chapel will sit at the edge of the school’s formal gardens and will have space for 800 seats – large enough to hold school ...
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NewsCambridge architect wins St Paul's cathedral role
Cambridge-based architect Oliver Caroe has been appointed surveyor to the fabric of St Paul’s Cathedral in London.Caroe was a principal at Purcell Miller Tritton for five years before starting Caroe Architecture in 2009. He will be responsible for advising the cathedral’s dean and chapter on all matters relating to the ...
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NewsCZWG uses 'country house clause' to win planning for Kent scheme
CZWG has secured planning permission for a house in the Kent countryside using the “country house clause” which allows isolated rural development of outstanding quality.Maidstone Borough Council has granted permission for Liverton Hill House on an orchard site near Boughton Malherbe.The house is arranged over split levels. Principal living rooms ...
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NewsEnglish Heritage warns of new risk to listed buildings
Economy reducing funds for repair, English Heritage chief Simon Thurley warns
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NewsSale halts Tower 42 competition
A competition to modernise the base of Tower 42 in the City of London has been put on hold after the owners decided to sell the estate.
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NewsEllis Williams completes Northampton school refurb
Ellis Williams Architects has completed the £5.5 million refurbishment and upgrade of the grade II listed Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School in Northampton
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Building StudyPark Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
The apartments of the regenerated Park Hill are a world away from 1961’s socially conscious streets in the sky. Here, BD looks at how Sheffield’s iconic housing block has echoed 50 years of Britain shifting political moods
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NewsK4 Architects rethinks 30-storey Birmingham tower
Plans for a 30-storey tower above a grade II-listed fire station in Birmingham are being revised after the scheme was panned by heritage and design experts.
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NewsGraham Morrison becomes English Heritage commissioner
Architect Graham Morrison has been named by architecture minister John Penrose as one of five commissioners to join English Heritage this week.
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NewsChetwoods to refurb listed Leeds mill
Project will create small office suites in bid to attract tenants
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NewsTwentieth Century Society backs calls to list Banksy graffiti
The Twentieth Century Society has thrown its weight behind calls for graffiti by street artist Banksy to be listed.Research by Bristol University’s law school claims the artist’s graffiti could be legally protected in light of the financial and cultural values that have been placed on his work in recent years.Catherine ...
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NewsArchitect defends changes to New York's Chelsea Hotel
Campaign to save the landmark hotel is launched after new owner hires ’Holiday Inn architect’
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NewsGaudi used psychiatric hospital and its patients as his test bed, claim researchers
Designs in hospital grounds ’predate his more famous works’