All Conservation articles
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Building Study
Building study: The Marlo by Barbara Weiss Architects
This extensive refurbishment and restoration project in Marylebone provides impact without the need to shout about it, writes Ben Flatman
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Review
The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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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
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Elizabeth Hopkirk visits Istanbul and finds conservation in the palimpsest city is a hot topic
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Blogs
Bees for Cities
“We need to remember the creepy crawlies things” was the message of the Architecture Foundation’s Inmidtown Habitats exhibition
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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
Treasures from the skip
George Saumarez Smith visits a remarkable collection of building artefacts
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Blogs
Are we really heading for a housing crisis?
John McRae examines the statistics for home numbers in the UK
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Blogs
Manufacturing our heritage
A visit to the former Spode factory throws up a wealth of questions about the best way to manage our historic industrial buildings
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Blogs
Learning from Drake Circus
As BD’s Carbuncle Cup is awarded this week for the worst piece of architecture in Britain, I look back at the original ‘winner’ from 2006.
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Blogs
Eco Avant-garde
We should not forget that this planet is the only balance we have to maintain.
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Blogs
Modern architecture 1 Civil War purists 0
The battle to save Richard Neutra's 1960s Cyclorama building in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA, rages on but the architectural preservationists have won a minor victory in this very modern war. Back in 2008, BD reported that Neutra's building had received a stay of execution after thanks to a law suit filed ...