BBC Television Centre
The Television Factory ‘Change is usually sad, but it is dangerous to live too much in the past, and to overstate the past at the expense of the… More…
Casework
Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
Once again the pressure is on this listed shopping centre, as the owners seek to increase their floor space. Backed by English Heritage, we have strongly objected to… More…
Preston Bus Station
We have recently had plenty of positive publicity for our campaign to save the bus station. Five other heritage organisations also signed our letter to The Times, calling… More…
Broadgate, City of London
Although English Heritage supported our opposition to the granting of a Certificate of Immunity (which guarantees a building against listing for five years), the Culture Secretary rejected heritage… More…
Birmingham Central Library
Despite our best endeavours and those of the Friends of Birmingham Central Library, the City’s planning committee has passed major plans for a city-centre redevelopment scheme that includes… More…
South Bank Centre
Catherine Croft recently took part in a panel discussion organised by the New London Architecture forum, at which the competing pressures of heritage and development were debated. Also… More…
’Re-discovered’ Annan mural in school library
by Henrietta Billings We have recently been to look at one of Dorothy Annan’s few surviving murals, in Cayley Primary School in Tower Hamlets, East London. Still fixed… More…
Elliott School, Putney: comprehensively outstanding
Since January this year the Grade II-listed Elliott School in Putney has become a major case for the Society. Plans to convert it into an academy have… More…
Still fit for purpose: The Old Gym, Birmingham
You might not notice the Old Gym building, nestled into a sloping site by the grand red-brick late Victorian Aston Webb buildings on the University of Birmingham’s… More…
Dawson’s Heights: the ‘Italian’ hill town in Dulwich
Dawson’s Heights, an important but little-known postwar housing estate in East Dulwich, has been turned down for listing by the Secretary of State, despite a strong recommendation from… More…