Buildings, heritage, art, nature | Writer, editor, cyclist, optimist. Always something interesting round the next corner...
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13 Nov 2025
Love this station! 👇🏼
13 Nov 2025
GOOD NEWS // One of the most memorable & theatrical spaces on the #Tube has been saved!
We’re delighted #Southwark Stn has been nationally recognised with grade II listing by @HistoricEngland @DCMS for architectural & historic importance😍
👉bit.ly/4lxYlyu
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16 Oct 2025
Congratulations to Patty Hopkins on your Lifetime Achievement award. Richly deserved!
15 Oct 2025
Patty Hopkins honoured as this year’s Architect of the Year Awards winners revealed: Haworth Tompkins claimed the Gold Award at this year’s ceremony, with Manchester named the first UK Design Capital of the Year dlvr.it/TNhwvc #architecture #news
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21 Aug 2025
Chatty Man chimes in on SAVE at 50! 🎉
We’re thrilled to have Alan Carr backing SAVE:
“One of the many things I love about SAVE is the fact that they believe buildings deserve a second chance...”
📬 Join us & Alan in backing historic buildings: bit.ly/4556p3G
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13 Jul 2025
What a great splash in today’s @thetimes by @davidbyers26 celebrating the importance of SAVE’s work safeguarding historic buildings - from castles to cotton mills, dept stores to stations - for future generations ♻️
#SAVEcampaigns #SAVE50 #reuse
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24 Jun 2025
‘As it celebrates 5 decades of David & Goliath battles, against a bleak backdrop of rapid global heating, missed emissions targets… the work of this gutsy little group is more critical than ever’
Thx @ollywainwright for great piece on @SAVEtoReuse ♻️🏢
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15 May 2025
There’s a real buzz in the room today for @SAVEtoReuse’s #BuildinginContext conference in Norwich. Director Henrietta Billings sets the scene: Cities like Norwich are successful because their historic streets & buildings attract people and businesses who want to be here
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4 Sep 2024
Love these examples of old #departmentstores reimagined 👇
💡There are loads more. Have we missed your favourite? Tell us!
#heritage #architecture #retrofit #sustainability #creativity #reimagineretail #highstreets
4 Sep 2024
🗞️Great to see our campaign highlighted in the @FT today. In the hands of creative architects and engineers, buildings like M&S Oxford St can be reused. ♻️
There’s 3 examples on Oxford St alone…
🧵A thread...
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2 Sep 2024
Full story bit.ly/4g2l5oR 👏to signatries @Kevin_McCloud @MrGeorgeClarke @JuliaBarfield @willhurst @SunandPrasad @clemblakemore @ben_derbyshire @n_shasore @G_RhysJones @SiHenley @Basil_FORE @CSaumarezSmith @sw_architects @WhitmanCJ @OPrizeman @BennettsRab @Henrietta_arch
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2 Sep 2024
💥'Grounds for refusal have grown in 3yrs since M&S submitted its plan. There is now an unanswerable case for govt to act in accelerating industry’s shift twds reusing bldgs'
Open letter to @AngelaRayner signed by architects, engineers & Bill Bryson in @thetimes #SAVEcampaigns
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2 Sep 2024
‘Key to revitalising the high street?’
💥 Great piece in the Observer by @RowanMoore full of examples of old department stores all over the country being converted for retail, housing, workspace, labs, culture, events. Bring it on!
#Dontwastebuildings
2 Sep 2024
'These old buildings are too big, significant & in some cases too beautiful simply to be binned, w all the waste of resources that entails. There is the ingenuity & affection out there'
A fascinating catalogue of imaginative re-uses♻️
bit.ly/4e1M020 #retrofit #heritage
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21 Aug 2024
Fantastic support for saving M&S Oxford Street - and an urgent swing away from needlessly demolishing buildings ♻️💥👇
21 Aug 2024
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨@billbrysonn & @MrGeorgeClarke among signatories of @SAVEBrit & @ArchitectsJrnal letter urging Angela Rayner to save M&S Oxford Street & send powerful message about Britain’s disposable attitude to buildings.
👀Read the letter: shorturl.at/krCjh
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1 Aug 2024
So what does the shortlist tell you about the future of architecture?
The answer is:
The best new building in Britain... is an old one.
#savebritainsheritage
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1 Aug 2024
🌲Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Arch. This Dorset site consists of several farm buildings dating back to the 19th century. The Yard has been renovated into a multifunctional space offering holiday lets, community spaces and educational facilities on a 250-acre farm. ♻️
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1 Aug 2024
🏘️ Park Hill Phase 2 by @MikhailRiches and @urban_splash. This former social housing scheme built by Sheffield City Council in the 1950s is an iconic building in the city and Europe’s largest listed structure. The regeneration has created 195 flats & 2000 m² of commercial space👍
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1 Aug 2024
🖼️National Portrait Gallery by @JamieFobertArch @Purcelluk. Originally built from 1890 to a design by Ewan Christian. The shortlisted design seamlessly blends refurbished historical elements with new contemporary design.
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1 Aug 2024
🚉King's Cross Master Plan by @alliesmorrison #Porphyrios Assoc. This innovative project ties together 4 historic buildings, dating from as far back as 1850. The Granary Building, Gasholder No.8, The Triplet and Coal Drops, are the anchors that make this new (old) place sing 🏭
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1 Aug 2024
🏦What does the shortlist for this years @RIBA Stirling Award, the prize for the best 'new building' in Britain, tell you about the future of architecture? Let's take a closer look at 4 of the 6 contenders. 🔍
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30 Jul 2024
We’ve announced the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 – recognising the UK’s best new architecture.
➡️ Explore the six inspiring projects: architecture.com/awards-and-…
#StirlingPrize is sponsored by @autodesk
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19 Jul 2024
‘The City’s most thrilling moments are those in which history & modernity crash into each other, where you emerge from the glass & iron Leadenhall Mkt to collide with the pipes & vents of Lloyd’s …To maintain this intensity you need to keep bits from every era’ @edwinheathcote🔥
17 Jul 2024
The City’s development needs to heed history on.ft.com/3zNimyY | opinion
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11 Jul 2024
Think we'll look back with disbelief that we let the bulldozers get this one 👇
🇫🇷 🚂🏠Great piece from the @dezeen archive celebrating #FrenchRailwaysHouse: bit.ly/3xSKkZk
#architecture #heritage #ClimateEmergency
11 Jul 2024
Nous t'🩷, French Railways House!🚂
This handsome & well-mannered 1962 office block by Shaw & Lloyd w Ernö Goldfinger & Charlotte Perriand will be a huge loss to central London & the Piccadilly townscape.
Its demolition & replacement is a waste of precious resources ♻️
#reuse
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22 Jun 2024
🌳🐝This election is critical for nature. What this next govt does or doesn’t do will be absolutely binary as to whether we get anywhere near that 2030 goal or not - Andy Atkins @ARochaUK addressing an ecumenical service b4 we joined a v creative march 🕊️#RestoreNatureNow
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