All Heritage articles – Page 3
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Opinion
Why is Herzog and de Meuron submitting this bonkers proposal for Liverpool Street?
Herzog and de Meuron’s clumsy proposals for Liverpool Street do not sit easily with the practice’s wider body of work, writes Charles Saumarez Smith
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Opinion
Heritage is the continuing history of everything
We need to think more carefully about how and why we build if we are to better reflect the changing world around us, writes Liz Smith
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Opinion
Conservation architecture is not a niche. It’s the mainstream
Far from being about the past, heritage and conservation architecture is at the forefront of innovation, writes Mark Goldspink
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Opinion
A 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 Study
Flaxmill 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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Features
Can 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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Opinion
The 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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Review
Peter 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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Review
Review | 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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Review
Review | Brutalist Britain by Elain Harwood
Jenny Marris reviews a new book on the architecture that defined an era
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Opinion
Why the M&S public inquiry matters
We must seize this opportunity to change the course of construction, writes Henrietta Billings
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News
In pictures: Jo Townshend Architects unveil new hub at Soane’s Pitzhanger Manor
New community space within ground of Soane’s historic manor house follows recent restoration of main building
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Opinion
Rebuild 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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Blogs
Sir David vs the Marquis
Elizabeth Hopkirk questions BD readers’ pragmatic response to David Chipperfield’s demolition plan
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Blogs
The camera never lies
Elizabeth Hopkirk finds archive photographs of the South Bank Centre tell a selective story
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Blogs
Battersea Power Station: Going, going...
'My name is Nisha and I have a rich father.' Battersea Power Station is for sale on the open market for the first time. As the deadline for bids looms, Elizabeth Hopkirk talks to one of the bidders
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Blogs
The gates of Bath
Unmoved by Grimshaw’s Thermae Spa and Eric Parry’s extension to the Holburne Museum, George Saumarez Smith considers the less dramatic
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Blogs
The mystery of Moscow courtyards
The second of three posts in which architect Natasha Chibireva shares her impressions on revisiting the city where she grew up
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Blogs
How the Greeks bailed us out
A transplanted temple of Apollo in a Hertfordshire village is one of the wonders of England