A CAMPAIGN group who previously fought to save Blackbird Leys Grade-II listed church have now said they will agree to the its demolition if public benefit ‘outweighs’ its loss. The Church of the Holy Family in Blackbird Leys first revealed plans to update their building, with new space to rent and flats to sell, in 2018. The church, built in 1965, is Grade-II listed due to its unusual heart-shaped plan, intricate interior and timber roof. Since the planning application was put forward in 2018, several campaign groups have objected to its demolition. Recent reports, however, revealing the cost of replacing the roof, which is currently leaking, have caused some campaigners to say that public benefit of a new church and living space could outweigh its preservation.
An empty Debenhams, a shuttered Marks & Spencer, an abandoned New Look: the town centre of Stockton-on-Tees has suffered a similar fate to countless high streets up and down the UK, struggling to survive in the online shopping, Covid-stricken era. But, while some towns scramble to convert empty department stores into flats, or fill vacant shops with community pop-ups and urban farms, Stockton Council has come up with an altogether bolder.
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The proposals (centre) will require the demolition of the British Library Centre for Conservation on the northern end of the site
Architects have poured scorn over Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners’ controversial designs for a major extension to the grade I-listed British Library - with one likening it to an “acoustic cover version of a high-tech power ballad”.
Plans for the scheme, which are due to be lodged with Camden council in May, will see a huge block at least 11 storeys built next to and partially attached to the landmark existing building at St Pancras which opened in 1997 after two decades of struggle and listed in 2015. It will include 72,000sq m of office space, 10,000sq m of library facilities and new premises for the Alan Turing Institute.
The building will house new premises for the Alan Turing Institute
Proposals by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners to extend the grade I-listed British Library in London have attracted criticism from rival architects and heritage groups.
Plans for the scheme, which are due to be lodged with Camden planners in May, will see a block at least 11 storeys built next to and partially attached to the landmark existing building at St Pancras which opened in 1997 and was given the highest form of protection in 2015.
It will include 72,000sq m of office space, 10,000sq m of library facilities and new premises for the Alan Turing Institute.
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Source: Secchi Smith
Original details of Denys Lasdun s IBM headquarters
AHMM has reworked its plans to upgrade Denys Lasdun’s IBM building on London’s South Bank for the second time in a year after the brutalist block won a grade II listing from Historic England.
The practice’s original proposals for the office complex, completed in 1983, were floated early last year and envisaged the creation of an extra 20,000sq m of space through the addition of two new storeys.