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Threatened Glasgow towers ’not special’, says Scottish heritage body
Scotland’s heritage watchdog has declined to list four Glasgow tower blocks set to be flattened to make way for controversial redevelopment proposals
RetroFirst
RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign
Bennetts to rework Derby Assembly Rooms as council gets £20m cash boost
Bennetts Associates has been hired to rework Derby’s Brutalist Assembly Rooms – the latest stage in an eight-year saga following a fire in 2014
Studio Egret West submits tower scheme to replace 50s Manchester block
Studio Egret West has submitted plans to flatten a Modernist office tower in Manchester and replace it with a 45-storey housing block and 19-storey offices
Six arrested as anti-demolition protestors occupy Glasgow towers
Six people have been arrested in Glasgow following a ‘political occupation’ of four tower blocks set for demolition
Coppin Dockray gives new lease of life to Trevor Dannatt house
The practice rescued the 1960 Hampstead house from possible demolition, repairing and reworking it as a new family home
Cut VAT to encourage retrofit of historic buildings, says parliamentary report
A heritage parliamentary group has called for a cut in VAT when retrofitting historic buildings and a presumption against demolition in the planning process
Anti-demolition coalition proposes alternative to Corstorphine & Wright’s Birmingham plans
Campaigners have suggested an alternative to designs by Corstorphine & Wright that involve the demolition of Birmingham’s iconic 60s Ringway Centre
Architects Declare savages government’s ‘woefully inadequate’ climate action
Architects Declare founder Michael Pawlyn has slammed ‘woefully inadequate’ plans to decarbonise construction after the government shot down a bill to regulate embodied carbon
Lambeth Council set to wind up unpopular housebuilding arm
Lambeth Council is set to wind up its arms-length housebuilding company Homes for Lambeth after an official review described its performance as ‘very poor’
Nottingham Castle attraction closes despite £30m Purcell overhaul
Nottingham Castle has closed its doors less than 18 months after the completion of a Purcell-led overhaul designed to ‘safeguard its future’