Heritage | Building Design Building Design Big names back Comyn Ching listing bid 28 April 2016 Jencks and Knight argue Farrell project should be viewed alongside Neues Museum and Venturi Scott Brown’s work 29 March 2016 Rare listing U-turn criticised by conservation specialists No room for sheltered housing in the new look East London 9 February 2016 Gillian Darley says Sainsbury’s proposed Whitechapel development which towers over a grade I listed almshouse is a metaphor for the loss of East London’s traditional urban fabric New row erupts over Johnson's decision to call in Norton Folgate 12 January 2016 Heritage group wants judicial review – but mayor says he acted properly and will make decision next Monday as planned We must act fast to save Peter Foggo's legacy 16 December 2015 The late Arup Associates partner is an important figure for many reasons - not least the example he set of collaborative working, says Rab Bennetts.

But modesty in life means his work is in danger of being overlooked just when it is most vulnerable Terry Farrell fights to save 'one of our best' from 'sabotage' 16 November 2015 Architect submits his own building for listing as scaffolding goes up - and attempts to start national po-mo debate You might as well knock down the London Eye as demolish Hyde Park Barracks 28 October 2015 Basil Spence should be celebrated for his efforts to give people access to ‘light, space, greenery’, says James Dunnett Why Hyde Park Barracks deserves to be demolished 27 October 2015 The campaign to save Basil Spence’s lowering landmark ignores the building’s utter failure to engage with its urban context, argues Ike Ijeh 10 July 2015 ‘Just because it’s old, tired and unpopular doesn’t make a good reason to demolish it’ City rejects plans to turn red phone boxes into food kiosks 10 July 2015 Plans to turn a number of Gilbert Scott’s iconic phone boxes into coffee and ice cream kiosks scuppered I'm not convinced by plans for No1 Poultry, says its project

 architect 12 June 2015 As C20 Society tries to get Stirling’s icon listed, Andrew Pryke, who knows the building intimately, sounds a warning over Buckley Gray Yeoman’s redevelopment plans Riddle over future of ‘vandal’ developer who knocked down pub 7 May 2015 Doubts over whether Carlton Tavern will be rebuilt after CLTX told by Companies House it will be dissolved this summer Gallery: St Peter's Seminary, Cardross 6 May 2015 Let BD take you on a tour of the ruins of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s 1966 grade A-listed masterpiece, now due to be rescued by arts charity NVA and Avanti Architects Travels in Niemeyer country 5 May 2015 The work of the legendary Brazilian architect is loved by the people but is increasingly neglected by the authorities, write Nick Johnson and Lucy Wood in the first of an occasional series of dispatches from their motorbike tour of Latin America Cruickshank invokes Churchill in British Land apology 30 April 2015 ‘Nazi Germany was a militarist, racist, murderous dictatorship.

British Land is, of course, none of these things’, says TV presenter Barn conversions? Read the advice first 25 March 2015 New advice governing the process of barn conversions comes into force on April 1. Jeremy Lake, historic environment intelligence analyst at Historic England, the new name for English Heritage, explains what architects need to know Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings 8 October 2014 The Victorian Society has named its Top 10 Most Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings in England and Wales, following a national appeal for nominations.

The society says all the buildings listed are at real risk of being lost if action is not taken in the immediate future Southbank Centre wins £16m grant for conservation project 29 May 2014 Future of Feilden Clegg Bradley scheme remains uncertain but management ‘still working to fund wider Festival Wing scheme’ David Archer's inspiration: Steinhof church, Vienna 7 March 2014 David Archer finds modernity and tradition meet in Otto Wagner’s creation of a complete artistic environment for the Steinhof church in Vienna The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation by Malcolm Fraser Architects 22 January 2014 Transformation of Edinburgh’s 18th century Old High School required a deft touch and awareness of the need to deliver a low carbon building Stonehenge visitor centre by Denton Corker Marshall 18 December 2013 Stonehenge has stood for over 4,000 years but its lightweight new visitor centre is not expected to last 100. It’s a sorry outcome for which architect Denton Corker Marshall is not to blame 13 December 2013 Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new plans for the London arts complex: putting things right, or merely tweaking?

Stonehenge’s 21-year saga shows how little we care 12 December 2013 Architects appointed to the Palace of Westminster would do well to heed another heritage tale, says Amanda Baillieu Kenwood restoration by English Heritage 11 December 2013 Robert Adam’s Kenwood has been restored to its original gilt-free glory at a cost of nearly £6 million, in a renovation that marks a new departure for English Heritage Sheppard Robson facade designs revealed for apartment buildings in Barts Square 8 November 2013 Lead architect Sheppard Robson brought in Piercy & Co and Maccreanor Lavington to design elevations for three of the buildings England's top ten at risk heritage sites 10 October 2013 Highlights from English Heritage’s annual “at risk” register chronicling Britain’s most endangered historical sites and buildings If the price is Wright 16 September 2013 20 Frank Lloyd Wright homes are up for sale at the moment, but are they worth the pricetag?

Restoration is a question of time 30 August 2013 Gillian Darley hopes that Witherford Watson Mann’s design for Astley Castle for the Landmark Trust “signals that conjectural restoration has been consigned to the scrapheap” (Opinion August 16). 23 July 2013 Britain’s leading politicians, broadcasters and clergy members chose their favourites - but is yours on the list? Southbank’s liner building is heading for an iceberg 4 July 2013 Cultural centre is relying on the revenue of more restaurants, but Amanda Baillieu asks at what cost to its integrity?

10 May 2013 The refurbishment of Paris’s Tour Bois-le-Prêtre shows us how it could be done, says Owen Hatherley For the record 26 April 2013 Thirty years after Pevsner’s death, we look back to his remarkable effort to document England’s notable buildings Williamstrip Bath house, Gloucestershire by Craig Hamilton Architects 23 January 2013 In the grounds of a 17th century house remodelled by Sir John Soane, Craig Hamilton has created a swimming pool indebted to early 20th century classicism. 19 November 2012 With public funding cuts and owners running out of cash, more and more buildings are under threat Lasdun’s drawings find a global home 8 November 2012 Digitisation means the location of an architect’s archive is less important than the quality of its preservation Architects to benefit from grade II at-risk register 17 October 2012 Architects can expect to see more projects on grade II-listed buildings, following English Heritage’s plans to add the category to its at-risk register for the first time. Should the V&A alter its Aston Webb screen?

10 August 2012 Yes says V&A’s Moira Gemmill as the existing facilities can’t cope with increasing visitor numbers; but the Victorian Society’s Ian Dungavell argues butchering the Webb screen is unnecessary Should the South Bank Centre be listed?

20 July 2012 Yes says Henrietta Billings, it is a versatile, intriguing architectural composition, no says Robert Adam, to survive it needs to be useful, robust and liked by the community- not just architects, art historians and their camp followers Soane Museum refurbishment by Julian Harrap and Caruso St John 11 July 2012 The first phase of the restoration of the museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields aims to bring three buildings as close to the original vision as possible Liverpool set for heritage showdown 28 June 2012 Unesco’s objections to Liverpool Waters could see the city lose its world heritage status, says Mark Wilding Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann 6 June 2012 Witherford Watson Mann’s new house within the ruined fragments of Astley Castle creates a physical and emotional connection between old and new Kensington a right royal mess 1 June 2012 Last bank holiday (miserable and rainy) my wife and I decided to cheer ourselves up by visiting the newly refurbished Kensington Palace to check out quite how the £12 million had been spent (Buildings May 18).

Refurbish Elliott, don't demolish it 18 May 2012 While I agree entirely with Kate Macintosh in her description of buildings as a public embodiment of collective memory (Letters May 11), her “musings” have a wistful, elegiac tone of resignation which, at least in the case of Elliott School, I hope is premature. 11 May 2012 Feilden Clegg Bradley, David Chipperfield and HKR also among firms to reach next stage of funding bids Demolition aims to erase the past 11 May 2012 The news of the threat both to John Bancroft’s listed school in Wandsworth and to the archives of the Women’s Library and the Trades Union Congress Collection in the not-so-safe-keeping of the London Met gives rise to ... Will the Shard be listed in 30 years’ time?

12 April 2012 Yes, says Peter Murray, it demonstrates an innovative typology; while Ken Shuttleworth thinks it’s still too early to tell VAT relief rule is unfair to owners 30 March 2012 The owner of any listed building faces increased costs and restrictions on alterations (“Listed buildings lose VAT relief” News March 23). All is not lost for education 9 March 2012 Although there was a great deal of emphasis on heritage in the Henley Review of Cultural Education (Leader March 2), the built environment did get a look in and architecture centres even got a specific mention! Academics favour modernist school trips 1 March 2012 Call for broader curriculum is response to education secretary Michael Gove’s list of 30 buildings pupils should see 8 December 2011 Avanti and ERZ in £10 million rescue bid for Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Peter’s Seminary Should Battersea Power Station be demolished?

6 December 2011 Yes, says Giles Barrie, it would cost a fortune to rebuild; while Gavin Stamp says it is a great industrial monument 2 December 2011 Appeal launched in House of Lords hopes to raise enough money to start restoration work in 2012 Feilden Clegg Bradley wins Middleport pottery work 28 October 2011 Feilden Clegg Bradley has been appointed to restore the Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent for the Prince’s Regeneration Trust. 24 October 2011 Van Heyningen & Haward has completed a £2.4 million arts centre for young people in Islington, north London Farrell sorting office plan to be revealed 21 October 2011 Islington and Camden councils will next week unveil details of plans drawn up by Terry Farrell & Partners to look at ways of revamping Mount Pleasant sorting office. Industrial buildings face greatest risk, warns English Heritage 19 October 2011 England’s industrial buildings are some of the most at risk of all historic assets, according to the Heritage at Risk register published by English Heritage today.

RMJM to restore Gillespie Kidd & Coia church 7 October 2011 Paul Stallan Studio at RMJM has been appointed to lead a restoration project at the Gillespie Kidd & Coia-designed St Bride’s Church in East Kilbride, Scotland. Go-ahead for Southend Pier 7 October 2011 White Arkitekter’s proposal for a cultural centre at the end of Southend Pier has secured planning permission. British brutalism added to list of world's threatened monuments 6 October 2011 London’s Southbank Centre, Preston Bus Station and Birmingham Library have been added to a schedule of the world’s endangered cultural monuments. 5th Studio to revamp Norwich tower 5 October 2011 5th Studio has been appointed to redesign the 11-storey Westlegate building in Norwich, a 1960s tower in the city centre. EH grant saves Yarmouth's historic theatre building 4 October 2011 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.

Trusts can solve listings threat 30 September 2011 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. Bennetts to design chapel for grade I listed school 29 September 2011 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. Cambridge architect wins St Paul's cathedral role 27 September 2011 Cambridge-based architect Oliver Caroe has been appointed surveyor to the fabric of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. CZWG uses 'country house clause' to win planning for Kent scheme 27 September 2011 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. Sale halts Tower 42 competition 23 September 2011 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.

Ellis Williams completes Northampton school refurb 23 September 2011 Ellis Williams Architects has completed the £5.5 million refurbishment and upgrade of the grade II listed Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School in Northampton Park Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West 14 September 2011 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 K4 Architects rethinks 30-storey Birmingham tower 8 September 2011 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. Graham Morrison becomes English Heritage commissioner 31 August 2011 Architect Graham Morrison has been named by architecture minister John Penrose as one of five commissioners to join English Heritage this week. Twentieth Century Society backs calls to list Banksy graffiti 23 August 2011 The Twentieth Century Society has thrown its weight behind calls for graffiti by street artist Banksy to be listed.

Mayor hopes to realise Florence vision 1 August 2011 The mayor of Florence wants to realise Michelangelo’s vision to complete the city’s San Lorenzo Basilica 500 years after it was scrapped because of the cost of importing marble. Liverpool Waters could ‘bring drama’ to site 22 July 2011 The outgoing president of the Liverpool Architectural Society has defended the cluster of towers proposed in Chapman Taylor’s £5.5 billion Liverpool Waters scheme. Is Liverpool Waters a threat to the city’s heritage? 22 July 2011 Yes, says Chris Costelloe, it would overwhelm the entire city centre; while Joe Anderson says 100 years ago the Liver Building similarly divided opinion New Holland Island shortlist proposals revealed to the public 19 July 2011 Architecture Foundation curates public exhibition of MVRDV, Chipperfield, Studio 44 and WORKac designs at St Petersburg Naval Museum Lobbyists lambast EH for heritage crisis ‘denial’ 15 July 2011 Britain’s heritage is at risk of slipping into crisis because the system intended to protect it is so “dysfunctional”, it was claimed today. Great Scott!

A Gothic reputation is revived 8 July 2011 Next week sees the 200th anniversary of George Gilbert Scott’s birth and, with his masterpiece the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras restored, the architect is once more receiving the appreciation he deserves. Multiple marble makeover for the Scotsman Steps 08 July 2011 A grotty flight of Victorian stairs leading to Waverley Station in the centre of Edinburgh has been transformed by Haworth Tompkins and the Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Egyptian Halls face administration threat 6 July 2011 The company that owns part of the threatened Egyptian Halls in Glasgow has said it is facing administration because it is being chased for a £2 million loan. Restored art gallery opens doors 17 June 2011 The Watts Gallery in the Surrey village of Compton reopens tomorrow after a £10 million restoration by ZMMA.

Redcar library listing report was ‘full of errors’ 15 June 2011 The government chose not to list ABK’s Redcar Central Library after being directly influenced by a report riddled with errors, it was claimed this week BDP and Preston got it right first time 10 June 2011 The bus station is the firm’s, and the town’s, best loved building. So why are they both building a mall in its place? Proof of value of apprenticeship 10 June 2011 English Heritage recently produced a list of all the listed buildings in the country, from which BD highlighted the 10 architects with the greatest number of buildings included (bdonline May 23). Shuttle cock 10 June 2011 On Monday night, Building for Life chairman Wayne Hemingway fronted an item on Newsnight, addressing the question of whether eighties buildings deserve listing.

William Hill reveals odds on Broadgate listing case 9 June 2011 The City of London’s landmark Broadgate complex is unlikely to be listed according to bookmaker William Hill Unesco advisers set to reject Corbusier 3 June 2011 An advisory group to Unesco is expected to recommend that more than a dozen buildings by Le Corbusier are turned down for World Heritage status. Donations flood in for threatened music hall 3 June 2011 A last-ditch attempt to save the world’s oldest surviving music hall from collapse has netted more than £170,000 in a week after the Heritage Lottery Fund turned down its grant application 31 May 2011 ’Conjectural image’ of how the Ealing building looked in the early 1800s is part of summer exhibition EH in talks over Broadgate listing 27 May 2011 English Heritage this week undertook final talks on whether to recommend the Peter Foggo-designed buildings at Broadgate for listing. Passing the Broadgate listing parcel 27 May 2011 Things are getting complicated down at the DCMS, where a decision must be made over whether to list Broadgate.

English Heritage launches online database of historic assets 24 May 2011 English Heritage has launched an online database of the country’s heritage assets to promote better understanding and protection of the historic environment English Heritage reveals George Gilbert Scott is most listed architect 23 May 2011 The architect responsible for designing the greatest number of listed buildings in England has been revealed as George Gilbert Scott Council postpones ruling over Make plans for Edinburgh cinema 20 May 2011 Plans to demolish a category B listed cinema in Edinburgh to make way for a Make-designed arts hotel have been given a last minute reprieve after the city’s planning committee postponed its decision. Work starts on Bond Bryan hotel school 17 May 2011 Work on the UK’s first hotel school for hospitality students, designed by Bond Bryan Architects, has begun at the University of Essex in Colchester Purcell Miller Tritton reveals plans for Wentworth Woodhouse restoration 17 May 2011 Purcell Miller Tritton has drawn up plans for the restoration of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

Glasgow masterpiece under threat 12 May 2011 The owner of Alexander ’Greek’ Thomson’s Egyptian Halls says he has no option but demolition. James Benedict Brown reports Tony Meadows' 10-year wait ends as Borough Market viaduct installed 11 May 2011 The most visible section of the Borough Viaduct has been lowered into place a decade after it was designed by Tony Meadows Associates Architect bids to protect Bristol's Kings Weston House 11 May 2011 An architect has formed a community group to try and protect the grade I listed building and find its missing statue Cardross Seminary set to be saved after being bought by arts charity 10 May 2011 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross near Glasgow could be saved after public arts charity NVA purchased the property from the Archdiocese of Glasgow. St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths 4 May 2011 The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.

Local architect sticks up for condemned Norwich office block 3 May 2011 An RIBA Award-winning Norwich architect has leapt to the defence of a condemned 1960s office block dubbed the city’s ugliest building. Spab announces this year's Lethaby Scholars 28 April 2011 The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Spab) has announced two architects and an engineer as this year’s Lethaby Scholars – a scheme that provides six months of conservation training. Save holds up Pathfinder demolition in Liverpool 19 April 2011 Save Britain’s Heritage has scored a major victory in its campaign to keep the Pathfinder bulldozers out of Liverpool after communities secretary Eric Pickles issued a stop notice Festival of Britain images published for first time 19 April 2011 Archive pictures of the Festival of Britain have been published for the first time, to coincide with the event’s 60th anniversary. Broadgate plans only attract two objections 15 April 2011 Just two people have objected to Make’s proposal for a huge new banking headquarters in London’s Broadgate, paving the way for the scheme to win planning permission.

Campaigners hail engineer's report as proof Victorian terraces should be saved 13 April 2011 Save Britain’s Heritage has issued an 11th-hour appeal to Liverpool Council to reject plans to bulldoze hundreds of Victorian houses, including Ringo Starr’s birthplace. Make's Broadgate scheme up for approval 12 April 2011 The City of London’s planning officers have paved the way for the approval of Make’s proposals for British Land to build a new headquarters for Swiss bank UBS. Appeal over Redcar library ruling 11 April 2011 The Twentieth Century Society says it will appeal against the decision not to list ABK’s Redcar Central Library. English Heritage weighs up wider Broadgate listings 7 April 2011 English Heritage is considering listing all of the early phases of London’s Broadgate, not just the area under threat of demolition. Syria unrest hits museum scheme 4 April 2011 The uprisings spreading across north Africa and the Middle East have led to the postponement of a conference to discuss the future of museums and heritage sites in Syria.

Toronto backs Rogers' city market scheme 4 April 2011 The City of Toronto has confirmed funding for the redevelopment of St Lawrence Market to designs by Rogers Stirk Harbour and local architect Adamson Associates. Cardigan Castle wins lottery cash 1 April 2011 Purcell Miller Tritton’s scheme to build a new heritage centre and carry out repairs at Cardigan Castle is one of the beneficiaries of £10 million handed out by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help three major restoration and education projects linked to the arts in England and Wales. Listing hopes dashed for Redcar Library 31 March 2011 Architecture minister John Penrose has ignored advice from English Heritage and refused listing for ABK’s Redcar Central Library paving the way for the 1970s building to be torn down. Record number of entries for Save's Buildings at Risk register 31 March 2011 Conservationists and volunteers have uncovered a record number of buildings around the country that are seriously threatened by neglect.

Lottery Fund awards for Fobert, Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton 28 March 2011 Jamie Fobert, Julian Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton were celebrating today after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £10 million to projects of theirs. Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin 25 March 2011 The architect behind the doomed 1970s Birmingham library has attacked Mecanoo’s replacement scheme which has condemned it to the wrecking ball. Spence & Webster Belsize bungalows saved by planners 25 March 2011 A pair of rare 1970s bungalows by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster have been saved after a north London council turned down plans to redevelop the site. HOK restores Kama Sutra translator's mausoleum 24 March 2011 HOK has completed the restoration of the grade II* listed mausoleum of Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and adventurer who translated the Kama Sutra.

Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant 24 March 2011 Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds. 28 February 2011 Brighton practice Quixotic Architecture has won planning permission to renovate a medieval tower on a Croatian island. Victorian hospital saved from demolition 28 February 2011 The Victorian Society has welcomed news that the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Brighton has been saved from demolition. Adam defends Athlone House designs 24 February 2011 Robert Adam has defended his designs for a £20 million neo-classical mansion in Hampstead against stinging attack from critics who described them as “inept”. Fretton mansion plans anger locals 24 February 2011 Tony Fretton has drawn up plans to remodel a London mansion, complete with a vast subterranean complex beneath the one of the capital’s most expensive streets.

London’s first skyscraper has its listing upgraded 13 January 2011 London’s first skyscraper has had its protection upgraded from grade II to grade I in recognition of its “outstanding architectural interest”. Balfron Tower’s human face 13 January 2011 East London’s Balfron Tower has become the setting for a photo shoot designed to show the connection between the building and its residents. Victorian Society lobbies to save Edgbaston houses 13 January 2011 A row of six Victorian and Edwardian houses in Edgbaston is under threat as part of plans to build a retirement village. Blow for Catford prefab campaigners 6 January 2011 The Twentieth Century Society has pledged to fight a decision to demolish one of the UK’s largest surviving post-war prefab housing estates, in south-east London.

SAVE puts localism to the test in Toxteth 22 December 2010 Localism faces its first real test as Pickles is asked to stop Pathfinder bulldozers from razing Ringo Starr’s childhood neighbourhood Award for firm that rescued town's industrial heritage 20 December 2010 Potter & Holmes Architects’ transformation of a dilapidated electricity sub-station that once helped power the London tram network has won a local townscape award. Broadgate designer slams Make's replacement 17 December 2010 Make’s plans for the redevelopment of part of the City’s Broadgate site have been attacked by those responsible for the buildings it will replace Pringle Richards Sharratt wins planning for William Morris extension 11 November 2010 Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects has won planning consent for a £3.75m extension to the UK’s only gallery dedicated to the work of William Morris. New hope for Cardross Seminary as charity plans competition 10 November 2010 Arts charity NVA wants to hold a design competition to revive the crumbling St Peter’s Seminary in Scotland after alternative plans to turn it into housing stalled.

Victorian Society bid to save hospital from Meadowcroft Griffin scheme 9 November 2010 The Victorian Society has condemned plans to build offices over the site of one of London’s foundling hospitals. Maida Vale tube station wins heritage plaudit 26 October 2010 The modernisation of Maida Vale tube station in north-west London has been recognised with a National Railway Heritage Award plaque. Heritage experts protest at savage EH cuts 21 October 2010 Heritage experts have slammed the government’s decision to slash the resources of its statutory advisor English Heritage by a third. 11 October 2010 The Victorian Society has published a list of the 10 most threatened buildings in England and Wales. Foster joins protest against adverts on Venice's historic buildings 5 October 2010 Norman Foster has added his voice to an angry protest to the Italian government over the use of giant billboards on Venice’s historic buildings. Consolation for Chipperfield as Neues wins RIBA conservation prize 4 October 2010 David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap’s Neues Museum project has won the Crown Estate Conservation Award, one a number of prizes announced during the Stirling Prize awards ceremony on Saturday.

Plaudits for EH's ‘at risk’ campaign 1 October 2010 English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk register has helped save 2,000 historic buildings in London over the last two decades, the charity said today Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, restored by Inskip & Jenkins 1 October 2010 The £8.9 million restoration of Horace Walpole’s 18th century ’gothic castle’, emphasises its original owner’s distinctive tastes Hadid speaks up for South Bank Centre 24 September 2010 Zaha Hadid has criticised as “unbelievable” the government’s decision not to list the South Bank Centre, insisting the 1960s complex deserved statutory protection RIAS alarm at Scottish National Trust report 1 September 2010 The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has written to the National Trust for Scotland asking for an urgent meeting about the future of the historic properties it manages. Nicol Thomas faces Birmingham heritage battle 1 September 2010 Conservationists are fighting to stop Nicol Thomas Architects from building a £40 million retirement village in Birmingham because it would destroy a row of fine Victorian and Edwardian villas.

English Heritage demands action on Finsbury Health Centre 11 August 2010 EH has told the owner of Lubetkin’s crumbling Finsbury Health Centre to carry out vital repairs – or risk being ordered to do so by the local council. Penrose lists two 1960s housing estates in Camden 10 August 2010 Architecture and heritage minister John Penrose has announced a series of controversial listing decisions including final rulings on Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House and two housing estates by Benson & Forsyth. EH report boosts listing bid for War Graves HQ 9 August 2010 The campaign to have Fitzroy Robinson & Partners’ Commonwealth War Graves Commission headquarters listed has received a boost following a positive report by English Heritage, claim campaigners. No 1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, by van Heyningen & Haward 30 July 2010 Van Heyningen & Haward’s scheme provides an elegant environment for the presentation of a fine collection of ships’ models EH warns of more buildings at risk 9 July 2010 Town hall cuts could cause “catastrophic losses” to the nation’s historic buildings, the chief executive of English Heritage has warned.

Purcell Miller Tritton completes Carlton Club dining room refurb 5 July 2010 Purcell Miller Tritton has completed the latest stage of its restoration work at the Carlton Club in London’s St James’s Street. Fireplace firm claims EH abused its position 25 June 2010 English Heritage is facing scrutiny from Britain’s new coalition government over claims of a conflict of interest which allegedly saw it “abuse” its planning powers in favour of a commercial partner. DCMS blunder over major post-war listing 18 June 2010 The biggest post-war listing decision for a decade was made by a junior official in the DCMS last week and never ratified by the architecture minister, BD can reveal. 18 June 2010 David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010. Granary revamp gets under way 10 June 2010 Work has begun on Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects’ £3.5 million restoration and extension of a derelict 19th century granary building in east London.

High Court rejects Save's Lancaster brewery test case 20 May 2010 An attempt by Save Britain’s Heritage to set a legal precedent protecting period buildings from demolition has been thrown out by the High Court Avanti Architects’ Sheffield library restoration speaks volumes BD Reviews Refurbishment April 2010 Avanti Architects’ sensitive restoration of Gollins Melvin Ward’s Western Bank Library at Sheffield University reveals a Miesian masterpiece hidden by years of neglect Liverpool museum pays out over view 25 February 2010 The publicly funded client behind the new Museum of Liverpool has ended up paying out a £750,000 penalty after discovering the building spoils the view from one of the city’s famous Three Graces. Hodge lists Abbey Road Studios at grade II 23 February 2010 Architecture minister Margaret Hodge today spot-listed the world-famous Abbey Road Studios at grade II in response to a public outcry about its possible sale. Hodge rejects EH's advice to list Slough town hall 23 February 2010 Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has rejected English Heritage advice on Twentieth Century buildings again and refused to list Slough’s 1937 town hall.

Sheppard Robson to revamp listed Thames foot tunnels 16 February 2010 Sheppard Robson has unveiled £11.5 million plans to refurbish two listed foot tunnels which run beneath the River Thames. National Trust restores power to the people 11 February 2010 The National Trust has launched a strategy to counter the perception that it is “some sort of exclusive club for connoisseurs”. Government pledges £3m to complete Cutty Sark restoration 5 February 2010 The restoration of historic clipper the Cutty Sark has been secured after the Department of Culture Media & Sport announced this week it would commit £3 million to the project. Hackney to demolish Foundry to make way for Squire & Partners' Art'otel 4 February 2010 The Foundry, a popular arts centre and bar in Shoreditch, east London, is to be demolished after Hackney Council granted planning permission last night to a controversial hotel building designed by Squire & Partners.

Savoy Hotel refurbishment nears completion 1 February 2010 The £100 million project to restore London’s Savoy Hotel will be completed this summer, more than a year behind schedule, it has been announced. Historic cinemas at risk claim campaigners 1 February 2010 Dozens of Britain’s 1930s cinemas face demolition as investors eye them up as ripe for development, campaigners fear. Culture secretary rejects EH advice to list Preston bus station 28 January 2010 Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has rejected English Heritage’s recommendation to list Preston Central Bus Station and car park. 28 January 2010 The Prince of Wales has become the new patron of heritage group the Historic Towns Forum (HTF). Simpson's Kensington Palace plans to be redrawn 27 January 2010 John Simpson has been sent back to the drawing board to redesign a controversial extension to Kensington Palace.

Tear down 60s and 70s buildings, says government adviser 26 January 2010 The government’s new chief construction adviser has said buildings put up in the sixties and seventies should be torn down because it would be impossible to refurbish them to a sufficient standard laid down by green targets. British Museum extension avoids call in 13 January 2010 Communities secretary John Denham has refused to call in the £135 million plan by Rogers Stirk Harbour to extend the British Museum in central London. Rogers' British Museum extension gets planning 18 December 2009 Work on Rogers Stirk Harbour’s £135 million British Museum extension is set to begin next month after the controversial scheme was approved last night by Camden Council. Baroque treasure Seaton Delaval saved for nation 17 December 2009 The grade I listed Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland has been saved for the nation, following a fundraising campaign, supported by some of the leading lights of British architecture.

New chair for ancient buildings society 16 December 2009 English Heritage’s former chief conservation architect, David Heath, has been named as the new chairman of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Hodge refuses to list Birmingham Central Library 23 November 2009 Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has rejected the advice of English Heritage and an appeal in BD by architect John Madin to list his 1970s Birmingham Central Library. Tony Fretton shows the art of merger 20 November 2009 Tony Fretton’s bringing together of two buildings into a home and studio was just the beginning of a work in progress for artist Brad Lochore Haworth Tompkins reveal details of National Theatre revamp 18 November 2009 Haworth Tompkins has revealed early details of its masterplan for the renovation and extension of Denys Lasdun’s Grade II* listed National Theatre building on London’s South Bank. Heritage bodies attack new planning proposals 4 November 2009 The Royal Town Planning Institute has savaged the government’s PPS15 heritage proposals as a serious risk to the nation’s historic buildings and places.

Foster's Bishops Place tries again for planning 29 October 2009 Norman Foster’s controversial Bishops Place scheme in the East End of London has moved a step forward. Victorian Society highlights at risk buildings 21 October 2009 The top 10 most endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales have been named by The Victorian Society. Dudley Zoo on World Monuments Fund's watchlist 12 October 2009 Dudley Zoological Gardens, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, has been placed on the World Monuments Fund’s 2010 watchlist alongside Machu Picchu in Peru and Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. Heritage groups welcome Tory lottery pledge 30 September 2009 Conservation groups have welcomed a pledge from the Conservatives to channel an extra £40 million of lottery money directly into built environment heritage projects. Robert Adam to renovate London's largest house for Russia's richest woman 28 September 2009 The Witanhurst mansion in north London, the capital’s largest private residence, is to be extended under an extravagant scheme by Robert Adam.

Outline planning granted for new US embassy in Battersea 17 September 2009 Wandsworth council last night granted outline planning permission for the controversial new US embassy at Nine Elms, Battersea. Buried pavilion plan for British Museum 17 September 2009 More than a fifth of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ rejected British Museum extension could be buried underground in a renewed bid to get it past planners. No EH advice as council rules on OMA institute plan 16 September 2009 Kensington & Chelsea Council will be forced to rule on the future of OMA’s controversial scheme to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute without the benefit of key advice from English Heritage. Royal support for campaign to buy Seaton Delaval 14 September 2009 Prince Charles has thrown his weight behind the National Trust’s campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings, Seaton Delaval in Northumberland. Tim Ronalds to revamp east London Turkish baths 4 September 2009 Tim Ronalds Architects has won the competition to carry out a £15 million refurbishment at one of London’s oldest Turkish baths.

Rethink for OMA's Commonwealth Institute revamp 19 August 2009 OMA's controversial designs to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute have been substantially overhauled in response to criticism from English Heritage, Kensington & Chelsea council and local residents. Purcell Miller Tritton’s Martime Museum extension has go-ahead 22 July 2009 Purcell Miller Tritton has secured planning permission and listed building consent for a new £35 million wing at London’s National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Landscape Institute management survive no confidence vote 22 July 2009 A vote of no confidence in senior managers at the Landscape Institute has been lost by a margin of more to two to one. Purcell Miller Tritton in the running for Bath Abbey redevelopment 22 July 2009 Purcell Miller Tritton is one of six firms in the running for a major redevelopment of the grade I listed Bath Abbey. 27 May 2009 A public inquiry into Richard Murphy’s proposed 19-storey £200 million hotel in Haymarket, Edinburgh, has begun.

Heritage groups dismayed at Koolhaas's Commonwealth Institute proposal 29 April 2009 Battle lines have been drawn over the future of London’s Commonwealth Institute after plans for a radical redevelopment of the grade II* listed building were submitted by Rem Koolhaas and fellow Dutch architect West 8. Architecture minister lists 19 historic military buildings 17 April 2009 Nearly 50 military buildings dating from the Napoleonic War to the first world war have been listed or given added protection by architecture minister Barbara Follett. Heritage outcry over Make’s Spurs stadium 9 April 2009 Heritage groups have slammed plans to demolish a set of historic buildings on the site of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new north London stadium, following the unveiling of designs by Make Architects, KSS Group and Martha Schwartz Partners last week. RIBA told conservation architecture accreditation scheme 'unwise' 6 April 2009 Heritage bodies have warned RIBA it will cause confusion by setting up its own accreditation system for conservation architects in direct competition with the existing Architects Accredited in Building Conservation Register (AABC).

Brace of Oxbridge modernists listed 3 April 2009 Modernist university buildings in Cambridge and Oxford by James Stirling and Powell & Moya have been listed, to the delight of heritage groups Should the RIBA introduce a register for conservation architects? 03 April 2009 Yes, says Purcell Miller Tritton’s Jeremy Blake, because architects need professional benchmarks as much as any other group; no, says Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder, we need communities of knowledge, not individual registrations 27 March 2009 Take a virtual tour as Ellis Woodman talks to the architects behind the new Whitechapel Gallery extension Listing recognition for West Country architect Mervyn Seal 18 March 2009 A 1960s cliff-top house in Devon inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier has been listed. Developer blasts EH’s move to list barracks chapel 13 March 2009 The developer behind Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London has launched an all-out attack on English Heritage’s attempt to list a Victorian chapel at the centre of the site Has English Heritage failed to protect Robin Hood Gardens?

13 March 2009 Yes, says Dan Cruickshank, it has utterly failed to realise the estate’s worth and potential; while EH’s Steve Bee says not recommending it for listing doesn’t mean it should be lost Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot BD Magazine - Healthcare - March 2009 Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat Dan Cruickshank attacks Tower Hamlets and English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens 9 March 2009 Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate.

Dan Cruickshank attacks English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens (video) 06 March 2009 Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate English Heritage faces critics at Robin Hood Gardens debate (audio) 5 March 2009 At a debate on Robin Hood Gardens at Ecobuild yesterday English Heritage was outnumbered four-to-one by those in favour of listing the estate. 20th Century Society seeks more power on delisting 2 March 2009 The 20th Century Society is seeking more influence on delisting decisions after Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House was controversially stripped of its grade II status. Chipperfield's Berlin Neues Museum (video) 27 February 2009 Work has completed on David Chipperfield Architects’ dramatic remodelling of the Neues Museum.

Take a sneak peak at the renovation work Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre to be sold off to private sector 30 January 2009 Berthold Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell, north London, is set to be sold into private hands after NHS officials this morning rejected a last-ditch effort by Architects for Health to preserve the building’s 70-year association with public healthcare. Is it all over for Robin Hood Gardens housing estate?

23 January 2009 Yes, residents are in touching distance of having the new homes they want, says council leader Lutfur Rahman; while Alan Powers argues that refurbishment would be a win-win outcome Traditionalists who do modern 05 December 2008 Andrés Duany, he of the Congress for New Urbanism, rocks up in the UK to tell us where modernism went wrong just as the Saudis sit down with Norman and Zaha to discuss the remodelling of central Mecca Cross party condemnation as Heritage Protection Bill dropped 3 December 2008 MPs from all three main parties have criticised the government's axing of the Heritage Protection Bill from next year’s parliamentary programme, amid claims historic buildings are being put at risk. Seven Thames bridges listed 28 November 2008 Culture secretary Andy Burnham this week announced the listing of seven bridges across the River Thames on the advice of English Heritage. Tories decry likely axing of heritage bill 21 November 2008 Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid into the government’s policy on heritage following BD’s report that the bill was likely to be dropped from next month’s Queen’s Speech.

Upset at Follett delisting 21 November 2008 Architecture minister Barbara Follett has delisted a London building by Colin St John Wilson, against English Heritage advice. Eric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover 07 November 2008 Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision. Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch 4 November 2008 The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled. Historic Berlin airport closes 3 November 2008 The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support. Heritage bill rethink after costs disputed 31 October 2008 The cost of implementing the heritage protection bill is likely to be far more than estimated, the government has admitted.

EH’s Heritage Counts report calls for ‘recycling’ of older buildings to cut CO2 emissions 30 October 2008 English Heritage today called on the government to recycle and adapt older buildings to help meet carbon reduction targets. Eric Parry Architects completes £36m restoration of St Martin-in-the-Field BD Mag - Refurbishment - October 08 Eric Parry Architects this month finally completes its £36 million refurbishment of St Martin-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square, London, some six and a half years after winning the commission. Hût Architecture’s slice of white BD Mag - Refurbishment - October 08 Hût has refurbished two central London townhouses in typically eclectic style for film company White House Post Production, reports Jessica Cargill Thomson. Photos by Kilian O’Sullivan EH lists its top 20 heritage projects 10 October 2008 Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.

Celebrating the best of Scotland’s architectural heritage 12 September 2008 To mark the opening of the Scottish Pavilion, BD goes in search of the buildings and structures that epitomise the country and its people Listing threat to Chelsea Barracks development 12 September 2008 English Heritage has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme by recommending a Victorian chapel on the site be listed at grade II. Walker church listed 12 September 2008 A modernist church designed by Derek Walker — the former chief architect of Milton Keynes — has become the first 20th century building to be listed this year. Natural History Museum unveils images of CF Møller’s extension 2 September 2008 The Natural History Museum has released the first pictures of the second phase of its state-of-the-art Darwin Centre, a scientific research and collections facility designed by Scandinavian architect C F Møller. Should Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?

29 August 2008 Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important Hodge grants Sherborne’s Shell House grade I listing 15 August 2008 Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has listed the Shell House in Sherborne, Dorset, at grade I, labelling it a “great example of British craftsmanship at its best”. Techniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house 15 August 2008 The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core Hodge criticised over heritage bill 01 August 2008 Culture minister Margaret Hodge has been slated by MPs over the draft heritage protection bill, which they claim will cost far more to implement than claimed and is badly undermined by a lack of local authority skills.

Long live Lubetkin’s republic 25 July 2008 Tecton’s Spa Green Estate, a legacy of 1930s radical housing policy in north London, has been sensitively restored to pay homage to its original ambitions, reports James R Payne Birmingham leader begs Hodge not to list library 21 July 2008 Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has pleaded with architecture minister Margaret Hodge to grant the city’s Central Library immunity from listing in an extraordinary 4,500-word letter. Heritage fund awards £23m as budget slashed 04 July 2008 The Heritage Lottery Fund has pledged £23 million for threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and a Welsh Georgian town house. EH proposes grade II listing for BBC Television Centre 2 July 2008 English Heritage has advised culture minister Andy Burnham to list parts of the BBC Television Centre at White City in London at grade II. English Heritage looks to public in latest round of Stonehenge visitor centre saga 1 July 2008 English Heritage is to launch a public consultation to find a new site for its long-planned Stonehenge visitor centre.

Heritage Fund pledges £23m for threatened buildings 27 June 2008 The Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday pledged £23 million for scores of threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and Georgian town house in Llanelli in Wales. Council anger as EH asks for Birmingham library listing 27 June 2008 Birmingham Council has harshly criticised the city’s central library after English Heritage recommended the 1973 building be grade II listed. Aqueduct heritage status nearer 30 May 2008 The grade I listed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal (pictured) in north-east Wales has moved a step closer to being shortlisted for Unesco world heritage site status. Ex heritage minister calls for RHG listing 23 May 2008 Margaret Hodge must reject advice from English Heritage and grant Robin Hood Gardens the grade II listing it deserves, MPs and former Labour heritage minister Alan Howarth have demanded. English Heritage defends its failure to back Robin Hood Gardens 16 May 2008 EH chair says estate 'fails as a place for human beings to live'.

Read the statement; watch the video Wright & Wright's Cambridge University Corpus Christi College Campus 16 May 2008 When Cambridge University’s Corpus Christi College ran out of undergraduate library space, it engaged Wright & Wright to remodel a former bank it owns on one of the city’s main streets as the Taylor Library, reports Ellis Woodman. Photos by Peter Cook and Dennis Gilbert English Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens 8 May 2008 English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed. Liverpool council claims heritage is safe with us 29 April 2008 Following an open letter from Liverpool planning manager Nigel Lee, BDonline readers hit back at claims that the city's architectural heritage is in safe hands. Simon Taylor claims the city council has "lost the plot in terms of protecting our wonderful architectural legacy"; and David Swift is "appalled by the level of hostility and arrogance shown by the planning officials". Do you agree? Read full comments and have your say below.

Heritage bill could reduce protection of 20th century buildings 3 April 2008 Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has refused to rule out changing the draft heritage bill to reduce protection for 20th century architecture. EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool 20 March 2008 Two buildings on Liverpool’s threatened world heritage site have been listed as part of the biggest review of a city’s historic building stock ever undertaken. Practice makes perfect at Haworth Tompkins' National Theatre studio refurb 20 March 2008 Haworth Tompkins’ painstaking refurbishment of a 1950s brutalist masterpiece ensures its future as the NT’s secret ideas laboratory, discovers Ellis Woodman Art installation put up for listing 15 February 2008 The Liverpool Preservation Trust has applied to English Heritage to have artist Richard Wilson’s Turning the Place Over installation listed. Historic buildings brought back from the dead 15 February 2008 How can historic ruins be given life and meaning for the 21st century?

Ellis Woodman looks at the answers offered in projects by Witherford Watson Mann, Simon Conder and Décosterd-Cotting 11 February 2008 English Heritage has unveiled details of its £2.1 million worth of grants to 28 cathedrals across England. Should we change historic buildings rules to allow for climate change? 1 February 2008 Yes it’s the lesser of two evils, says Sarah Staniforth, historic properties director at the National Trust, but Duncan McCallum of English Heritage says the rules are flexible enough already Smithfield Market proposal “drives a bulldozer through national heritage policy” 28 January 2008 English Heritage has accused developers of KPF’s proposed Smithfield Market scheme and the City of London of attempting to “drive a bulldozer through national heritage policy” as a public inquiry into the plans drew to a close on Friday (January 25). Contemporary centre set to face Riga’s medieval heritage site 28 September 2007 Fletcher Priest has won an international competition to design this 46ha urban centre in the capital of Latvia, Riga.

Six firms shortlisted for garden history museum 28 September 2007 AOC, Sarah Hare Architects and Ullmayer Sylvester are among six young firms shortlisted for a competition at the Museum of Garden History on the banks of the Thames at Lambeth. Liverpool to issue heritage guide for architects 21 September 2007 Liverpool City Council has agreed to create a design framework for its protected waterfront area in a bid to safeguard the city’s world heritage status. Liverpool creates design framework to preserve World Heritage status 17 September 2007 Liverpool City Council has agreed to create a design framework for its protected waterfront area in a bid to safeguard its World Heritage status. Full steam ahead on viaduct listing 07 September 2007 Two sections of the former Eastern Counties London Railway viaduct in London’s Tower Hamlets have been awarded grade II listed status by architecture minister Margaret Hodge, who described it as a “first-generation railway structure of international significance”. Will redevelopment destroy Camden’s boho heritage?

07 September 2007 Camden Market risks being turned into an anyonymous high street, says Ron Arad; while Nic Sampson counters that his practice’s scheme will enhance the market’s unique character RMJM tower threatens St Petersburg's world heritage status 3 September 2007 Unesco is threatening to strip St Petersburg of its World Heritage status if the city proceeds with plans to build RMJM’s Gazprom tower. Expanded horizons 24 August 2007 It was a tale of two galleries when thwarted plans to enlarge the Newlyn Art Gallery led to an ambitious expansion across two sites David Mikhail's Richmond house: Minimal quibbles 06 July 2007 The remodelling and extension of a small terraced house has created a beautiful building displaying intelligent use of space.

It's a shame it slips up on some of the details, says Tony McIntyre Restoring a crown jewel 06 July 2007 Dixon Jones is set to refurbish the Regent Palace Hotel at the Crown Estate-owned southern end of London’s Regent Street, the central element of the Allies & Morrison masterplan for the area 22 June 2007 The government has withdrawn its bid to have Charles Darwin’s home made a world heritage site. On the terraces BD Magazine - Housing - June 2007 Urban Splash assembled a winning team to deliver its Chimney Pot Park in Salford, which turns traditional concepts of terraced housing upside-down Scottish heritage HQ split into flats 15 June 2007 Oberlanders Architects has won planning permission for a £5 million project to convert Scottish National Heritage’s former headquarters in Edinburgh into flats. Refurbished Festival Hall rejects claim of ‘vandalism’ 01 June 2007 Allies & Morrison was forced to defend its £111 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment at its official unveiling this week.

Musical chairs 01 June 2007 Allies & Morrison’s makeover of the much-loved Royal Festival Hall has been hailed as a respectful transformation, but do the changes go too far Royal Festival Hall refurb comes under fire 29 May 2007 Allies & Morrison, the architect of the £115 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment, has been forced to defend its work at the unveiling of the renovated building. Artists colony gains a new heart 25 May 2007 Caruso St John’s remodelling of Spike Island’s studio and exhibition space in Bristol strives to create a greater sense of community without losing any of the centre’s sense of vitality.Pictures by Ioana Marinescu Hackney’s rose- tinted spectacle 18 May 2007 The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result Preservation society 18 May 2007 Long & Kentish Architects, working with Colin St John Wilson, has added the latest flourish to the latter’s British Library.

And the Centre for Conservation is arguably an even better building. Pictures by Peter Durrant Social housing’s ambivalent legacy The Williams Report The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings A Russian resurrection BD Magazine - Refurbishment - May 2007 The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg Locked up in luxury BD Magazine - Refurbishment - May 2007 As part of a £35 million development, Architects Design Partnership and Jestico & Whiles have been doing time at Oxford’s ancient prison, converting it to a boutique hotel.

Photographs by Mark Bramley and Morley von Sternberg Another world 04 May 2007 An extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum, as well as providing urgently needed gallery space, will create a new gateway into the neglected Sydney Gardens Heritage fund will lose out 23 March 2007 The government has said the Heritage Lottery Fund will lose more than £160 million of funding between 2009 and 2012 because of the spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics — now £9.3 billion. Moving to a different beat 23 March 2007 Eric Parry Architects’ music building for an independent boys’ school takes its place confidently among the hotchpotch styles of previous eras. Pictures by Hélène Binet Heritage funding gap feared 16 March 2007 The government’s long-awaited white paper on heritage has sparked fears of a looming funding gap in the sector. Heritage ‘buffer zones’ threaten KPF towers 09 March 2007 Over £1.5 billion of private investment to improve one of the capital’s worst transport blackspots could be threatened by tough new measures to protect world heritage sites.

...meanwhile Unesco warns of danger to historic Palace of Westminster 5 March 2007 Unesco has threatened to put several of Britain’s world heritage sites, including the Palace of Westminster, on its endangered list. Hanging around 02 March 2007 A school of circus skills has made its home in a former electricity generating station. Ellis Woodman looks at how Tim Ronalds Architects has helped make the arrangement more permanent Is money at the root of the crisis at English Heritage? 02 March 2007 Paul Velluet blames government underfunding for the heritage body's woes but Robert Adam argues the crisis runs much deeper English Heritage slams Viñoly icon as ‘oppressive’ 23 February 2007 The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over the future of the London’s skyline, with English Heritage ranged against Rafael Viñoly, Land Securities and the City in a landmark public inquiry.

Erskine’s Ark is rebuilt as Byker wins listing 26 January 2007 The legacy of legendary architect Ralph Erskine received a double boost this week as his famous Byker Estate in Newcastle was listed and work began on restructuring the interior of his Ark office in west London. Jowell’s search for new heritage boss goes on 26 January 2007 The Department for Culture Media & Sport will readvertise the post of English Heritage chair after culture secretary Tessa Jowell rejected two leading candidates. Sint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat 26 January 2007 Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious. Heritage lobby demands huge funding hike 19 January 2007 Britain’s leading heritage bodies have formed an unprecedented coalition to bid for an extra £37 million-a-year from taxpayers to protect the country’s historic buildings.

Lloyd’s and listing lobby choose to collaborate 15 December 2006 The Twentieth Century Society has put on hold its controversial plan to apply for the spot-listing of the Lloyd’s of London headquarters after meeting the building’s managers this week. Georgian on their minds BD Magazine - Offices - November 2006 John McAslan & Partners has stripped an unlovable 1960s office building back to its frame and remodelled it as a stone obelisk in a nod to its 18th century neighbours Trinity and Darwin College, Cambridge refurbishments by Fifth Studio 24 November 2006 Fifth Studio has remodelled two buildings at Cambridge University, subtly substituting 1960s brutalist astringency with something more luxurious. 1000 ancient monuments still at risk, says English Heritage 17 November 2006 More than 1,000 grade I and II* listed buildings and structural Scheduled Ancient Monuments remain “at risk”, according to English Heritage’s annual report, released on Tuesday.

Barbican refurbishment by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris BD Magazine - Public Buildings - October 2006 Never again will culture-going Londoners miss the beginning of a Barbican performance: AHMM leads them through the muddled maze via new ‘portals’ and pedestrian routes Break free of World Heritage tyranny 27 October 2006 If a two-level planning system wasn’t hard enough, we now a have third level — and it’s global. Heritage Lottery to grant £13m in Townscape scheme 27 October 2006 Lottery funding of £13 million has been earmarked to regenerate towns and cities across the UK in the latest round of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Townscape Heritage Initiative. Royal Court, Guernsey by Nicholas Hare Architects BD Magazine - Public Buildings - October 2006 At Guernsey’s new Royal Court complex, the majesty of the law is given a commanding hill-top position and a contemporary welcoming feel Experts to review ‘radical’ heritage plans 20th Ocotber 2006 Government-appointed experts are to meet in the next two weeks to review the “radical” Heritage White Paper, set to be published before Christmas.

Lloyd’s recalls Flacq as listing row rumbles on 20th Ocotber 2006 Lloyd’s of London has recalled Flacq, a young practice formed of ex-Richard Rogers staffers, to look at the future of its iconic headquarters following rows over its potential listing. Brunswick Centre refurbishment by Patrick Hodgkinson 6 October 2006 Now that the Brunswick Centre’s winter gardens, concrete walkways and shops have been remodelled by the original architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, with Levitt Bernstein, this modernist icon is ready to face a new era. 1 September 2006 Should John Betjeman be remembered for saving St Pancras and the Albert Bridge rather than his poetry? 1 September 2006 I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008. Thermae Bath Spa by Grimshaw Architects 04 August 2006 Three years overdue, Grimshaw Architects’ Thermae Bath Spa has become one of the longest running sagas in British construction. On the eve of its opening, Ellis Woodman discovers if it has been worth the wait.

Commonwealth threat spurs heritage groups 9 June 2006 Heritage groups have sprung into action to oppose the leaked government proposal to delist the Commonwealth Institute via a parliamentary bill (News June 2). Is the listing system set for demolition? 2 June 2006 Whatever your view is about the merits of RMJM’s Commonwealth Institute, the decision by Tessa Jowell to seek its demolition through a special act of parliament should not come as a total surprise. Uniting old and new to create rich legacy 13 April 2006 Last week Peter Rees said he could not understand why English Heritage has commissioned a study of the whole Smithfield/ Farringdon area (News April 7). Heritage projects in jeopardy as lottery funding is slashed 24 March 2006 The single largest source of funding for the regeneration of Britain's rundown built heritage is facing a massive budget cut. Heritage can make you money, developers told 17 February 2006 English Heritage reached out to developers this week with a guide for developing projects in the historic environment.

Liverpool takes heritage hardline 3 February 2006 The new leadership of Liverpool City Council will take a strong pro-heritage stance, refusing to "sit back and accept" the kind of proposals it would have "welcomed in the 1990s", it said this week. Place for heritage in Stratford 15 July 2005 English Heritage has insisted the 28 listed buildings across the Olympics site will not obstruct development and in fact should be retained as a way to engage the local community in the masterplan. Making history 3 December 2004 Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations? Murphy comes home to restore historic warehouse 8 October 2004 Richard Murphy has won his first project in his home town of Manchester: the refurbishment of one of the world’s most significant 19th century warehouses.

Council hits out at EH on pool listing U-turn 3 September 2004 A local council has slammed English Heritage after an Edwardian lido was grade II listed, scuppering the council’s plans for a riverside hotel. Listing urged for Bletchley 21 May 2004 Redevelopment plans at Bletchley Park, famously used by British codebreakers during World War II, have prompted the local council to apply for all the wartime buildings on the Buckinghamshire estate to be listed. Travels through place and history 7 May 2004 The selection of Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem for a British scheme is as exciting as Herzog & de Meuron's arrival here in 1995, writes Tony Fretton.

Question: Which organisation, based in Maidenhead, campaigns to save and restore unusual buildings threatened with demolition?
Answer: THE LANDMARK TRUST