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Government moves to cut red tape on historic home retrofits
The government has taken the first steps towards making it easier to retrofit historic homes
Tag: historic buildings
Social trust names winners of its 2024 People & Place grants
The Footwork Trust has announced the winners of its £100,000 2024 People & Place initiative, with 10 community placemaking projects selected to receive one-off flexible grants and mentoring
Hodder + Partners plans extra storeys for Gary Neville’s Manchester tower
Hodder + Partners is planning to add another two floors to Gary Neville's already consented but contentious St Michael’s tower scheme in Manchester
SPPARC narrowly wins approval for Bankside office and retail scheme
The casting vote by the chair of Southwark Council’s planning committee has secured approval for SPPARC’s eight-storey office and retail redevelopment near London’s South Bank, despite an influx of objections
vPPR’s Camden Market Canopy
vPPR Architects has created a playful new venue perched on the elevated former railway goods yard alongside Camden Market’s Grade II*-listed Horse Hospital
3DReid submits plans to retrofit ‘idiosyncratic’ Edinburgh warehouse
3DReid has put forward plans to convert an unusual former warehouse in Edinburgh’s historic Broughton Market into seven new apartments
In practice: Cutting the carbon cost in period building refurbs
Joshua Scott, associate director at dMFK, describes the practice’s ‘build less’ approach to heritage, conservation and environmental performance on three recent large-scale refurbishment projects
Clare Wright: ‘We want to create buildings our descendants will thank us for’
Wright & Wright aims to create buildings ‘that our descendants will thank us for’ said co-founder Clare Wright as she set out her practice’s philosophy at an AJ100 Club event in London this week
Boutique hotel out, but Hodder back in to deliver Gary Neville’s Manchester tower
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has submitted revised plans which take the boutique hotel out of the controversial St Michael’s tower scheme in Manchester, to be replaced with more office space
Competition: Cadw framework
The Welsh government’s heritage wing, Cadw, has announced a £4 million construction consultancy services framework