All Heritage articles – Page 3
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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
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Blogs
‘I hear a train a comin’, it’s rolling round the bend......’
The relief of surviving another public meeting
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Blogs
Unfinished Spaces
Throughout history, architecture has been used as a symbolic tool by the powerful
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Blogs
Lessons from a transformer
Can a 100 year old large brick shed teach us how modern buildings should be constructed now?