Bedlam Furnaces, Ironbridge Gorge
Bedlam Furnaces, a key industrial monument in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, removed from Historic England Heritage at Risk Register, due to construction of a protective canopy.
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Battersea Power Station Chimneys, Painting News
Painting of all four chimneys now complete, earlier than expected. the Grade II* Listed building was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in 1939. The chimneys had been painstakingly dismantled and rebuilt.
Arisaig House by Philip Webb in Scotland
First country house by Arts & Crafts architect Philip Webb, his only one in Scotland: his references to the English parsonage style are adapted to the Scottish Highlands, using local granite rubble with dark whinstone dressings. The house was requisitioned by the military during World War II, with training for high-profile Czech agents.
Geffrye Museum Building, Shoreditch, London
Founded by Sir Robert Geffrye, the museum is a former site of almshouses built to house the financially insecure elderly from 1714. It was converted to a museum of furniture and industry by London Country Council in 1914. Since 1930, displays of domestic life have been exhibited here to depict period rooms from the 1600s, to the present day.
Lighting Up 180 Wellington Building in Ottawa
Design: Lightemotion
Lightemotion is excited to announce the completion of the lighting design for 180 Wellington, one of the first illumination projects to be executed within the Master Plan for the Parliamentary Precinct.
Bernardas Convent Reconversion, Portugal
Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos. Award for the restoration of the Convento das Bernardas building, based on the construction of a resort with 78 residences. The architecture design has two types of intervention: new construction work and the recovery of the existing building
House of Correction in Melbourne, Swanston St
Design: ZWEI Interiors Architecture. Working within the context of an existing CBD building, the design strips back the built layers and exposes the site’s history and amplifies this to create narrative and connection within the interior space.
Copenhagen Railway Station: Hovedbanestation
Hovedbanegaarden København, built in 1904-11, designed by Heinrich Wenck Architect: landmark Copenhagen building on west side of city centre, immediately west of Tivoli.
Royal Crescent Bath, Georgian Architecture
250 years anniversary of the iconic Royal Crescent, a masterpiece of the architectural innovation and creative imagination of the Georgian era.
Lower Lodge Gatehouse Bristol Building
Two year restoration of handsome Grade II listed gatehouse completed by Austin-Smith:Lord. The Gothic revival building was formerly on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk’ register.
New Holland Island West 8 Landscape
New Holland Development chose to organize a full-fledged city park rather than a building. To implement this idea, they employed West 8, under the direction of Design Director Edzo Bindels.
Queen’s House Greenwich Building London
The 17th-century ‘house of delight’ that began an architectural movement in Britain re-opens this October. This British Palladian villa design by architect Inigo Jones, is one of the UK’s most historically important buildings, a masterpiece of British architecture.
Statens Museum Kunst Copenhagen
National Gallery of Denmark: the original building was designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup and G.E.W. Møller in a Historicist Italian Renaissance revival style. An extension was designed by architects C. F. Møller, completed in 1998.
Architecture of Georgian Homes
Georgian architecture refers to the architectural style of the period from 1720 and 1830. It takes its name from the four British King Georges who ruled at this time. Georgian architecture departed from the English Baroque style of the early 18th century, characterised by bold and opulent curved shapes, strong lines, ornamental design and rich colours.
Bluecoat Arts Centre Liverpool Building
Bluecoat Arts Centre Liverpool design by Biq Architects, oldest surviving city centre building: Arts centre extension, English Grade 1 Listed building restoration (originally built as a school in 1717) and a new 2250 m² extension built – a new arts wing housing a flexible performance space and four art galleries.
Bluecoat Liverpool City Centre Building
It is Liverpool’s oldest surviving city centre building and a fine example of Queen Anne-style architecture, yet the builders and architects responsible for creating Bluecoat have remained unconfirmed – until now. New research has discovered fresh information about the origins of this much-loved Liverpool building, which dates from 1717 and started life as a charity school before becoming a centre for the contemporary arts.
Castlefield Manchester Architecture, Buildings
Castlefield buildings, northwest England – info, pictures + architects – Castlefield Manchester, English canalside architecture: Manchester building photos, property
New Holland Island: St Petersburg Masterplan
In accordance with a new master plan developed by West 8, and approved by the Investment Committee and the Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage of the City of Saint Petersburg, New Holland Island’s first phase of restoration and regeneration has been completed.
