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AT Editor2024-05-21T21:59:47+01:00In a remarkable case of a building’s original tenants coming back, Sanderson Design Group has returned to the CFA Voysey-designed wallpaper factory in west London, restored by dMFK.
AT Webinar: Sustainable Heritage
Jason Sayer2024-07-02T16:00:29+01:00Join us on Wednesday 5th June to learn how architects, clients and engineers are working to ensure our built heritage across numerous sectors can endure and perform at the required level to meet sustainability demands in accordance with Approved Document L.
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
Isabel Allen2024-04-04T13:21:07+01:00Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has transformed the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel into Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Chris Dyson admires a project that combines conservation, retrofit and new build to create a complex, vibrant building that plays a vital role in civic life.
Religion and culture: Snape Maltings Concert Hall by Penoyre & Prasad
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-01-03T11:44:51+00:00Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk was presented at the AT Awards live finals on 7 November 2022 at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health to a jury comprising, Marion Baeli, Sarah Allan, Deyan Sudjic, Roger Harrabin, Ben Derbyshire, and Chair Catherine Burd. Read about how the project has stood the test of time.
Education: The Enterprise Centre by Architype
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-08-30T09:12:18+01:00The Enterprise Centre, University of Anglia was presented at the AT Awards live finals on 7 November 2022 at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health to a jury comprising, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Peter Bishop, Hanif Kara, David Partridge, Simon Allford and Chair Isabel Allen. Read about how the project has stood the test of time.
Education: New Court by 5th Studio
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-21T13:13:18+00:00New Court, Trinity College, Cambridge was presented at the AT Awards live finals on 7 November 2022 at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health to a jury comprising, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Peter Bishop, Hanif Kara, David Partridge, Simon Allford and Chair Isabel Allen. Read about how the project has stood the test of time.
The Pevsner way of seeing
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:24+00:00For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography.
Heritage: High Street politics
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:26+00:00Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, says the planning inquiry intro controversial plans to raze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store could change the future of construction.
Learning from design codes
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:29+00:00The new National Model Design Code is being trialled across the UK. Gail Mayhew, managing director of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole’s new placemaking company FuturePlaces, looks at the lessons that can be learnt from previous attempts to codify urban design.
Repurposing the past: Identifying value and making the case for change
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:26:34+00:00An AT Schüco webinar exploring ways of evaluating, upgrading and repurposing our historic building stock is taking place on Wednesday 29th June.
One of a kind
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:36+00:00A new publication from the Twentieth Century Society by historian Geraint Franklin charts John Outram’s extraordinary career. Charles Holland enjoys the first major study of a highly idiosyncratic architect who remains impossible to categorise.
Heritage policy must adapt to climate change
Peter Songi2022-11-22T12:26:50+00:00Historic buildings need to be adapted to become energy efficient. Robert Adam urges heritage bodies and architects to embrace an approach that evolves, rather than contrasts with, the architectural language of our listed building stock.
