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OpinionThe loss of Birmingham’s Ringway Centre is bad news for heritage, net zero and the wider city
Far from showing signs of sophisticated local government decision-making, Birmingham seems more lost than ever, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionFrom Le Corbusier to the Sea Cadets: Why ships provide such powerful architectural inspiration
An unusual architectural commission reminds us of the power of incongruity in the English landscape, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionThe beauty of creative reuse is that it can bring hope back to the most unlikely places
Bringing life back to the most challenging sites requires hard work, inspiration and a leap of faith, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionWhile Sheffield embraces its rich heritage, Birmingham once more shoots itself in the foot
Reuse of once unfashionable modernist buildings is increasingly favoured by developers, but one British city persists in demolition and rebuild, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionBirmingham used to know how to undertake community partnerships. It needs to relearn… quickly
The value that local authorities bring is partly in their institutional memories. But if a council forgets what it once used to do well, then it’s in trouble, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionThe Crooked House is gone. It can’t be reinvented
Any attempt to rebuild the Crooked House would merely produce a ‘worthless fake’, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionCan Birmingham learn from past mistakes by keeping more of its old buildings?
Two separate campaigns to save Birmingham buildings tell the story of how conservation and attitudes to sustainability have evolved in the city, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionIs Birmingham’s vision for a greener, high-density city centre achievable?
Birmingham’s Our Future City vision raises as many questions as it answers, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionBirmingham’s tall buildings policy is in danger of becoming a free-for-all
The city’s unquestioning love of high-rise development is related to its long history of seeing tall buildings as totems of prestige, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionLendlease’s Birmingham Smithfield masterplan risks failure if it seeks to micromanage
A masterplan that thinks it can predict and control how people use a space is likely to fail, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionRetrofit and conserving our architectural heritage can go hand in hand
Efforts to retrofit older homes can run into conservation concerns, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionCan the BBC and creator of Peaky Blinders help save Digbeth?
Joe Holyoak ponders whether Birmingham can save one of the last remnants of its small-scale industrial urbanism
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Building StudyChichester Festival Theatre
Haworth Tompkins has subtly remodelled Chichester Festival Theatre, a 1960s classic that has regained its original vision while also achieving modern performance and efficiency standards
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NewsFresh doubts over Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial
Tribute to WWII general-turned-president faces funding block
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Building StudySouth Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright
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Building StudyCaistor Arts & Heritage Centre by Jonathan Hendry Architects
This reinvention of a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire as an arts and heritage centre is one of the early manifestations of the Big Society
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NewsFaulknerBrowns’ venue open to all
FaulknerBrowns Architects’ White Water Centre will tomorrow become the first 2012 Olympic venue to open to the public.
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NewsEgret West leads £350m Gateshead homes plan
Studio Egret West is heading a team of four practices picked to work on a £350 million scheme to build 2,500 homes across a series of sites in Gateshead.
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Building StudyGrote Koppel, Amersfoort, by Fat
Fat’s new building in the Dutch town of Amersfoort is good enough to eat writes Ellis Woodman.
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NewsThomas Heatherwick and Boris Johnson unveil London's new routemaster bus
Designer says the new model represents a return to the best of British design.