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He was a tough opponent of insensitive development including the mammoth Coppergate 2 scheme which was successfully stopped

DARRELL Buttery, who has died at aged 81, was many things: inspirational teacher, historian, champion of York’s heritage – and wryly witty…

Letter: <strong>Peter Fisher</strong> says the Aviva building by Lendal Bridge has considerable architectural quality

As an architect, educator, author and pundit, Patrick Nuttgens was a popular public figure in the 1970s-90s, including in York where he lived and…

The West Has Long Ignored the Wider World of Design. It’s Time for That to Change Mariam Kamara © James Wang Architect Mariam Kamara, the Niger-born founder of Atelier Masomi, says the work of non-Western designers and architects has been overlooked for far too long. While I was in college studying computer science, before I decided to become an architect, I picked up a book by Patrick Nuttgens that confounds me to this day. It was called The Story of Architecture. Natural...

Darrell Buttery, a former Nunthorpe Grammar School teacher, with a wry smile for a mis-spelled school mug. Picture Frank Dwyer PEOPLE sometimes say the oddest things when they think there’s no-one to overhear. Like the elderly woman who attended a Friends of York Festival event in 1973. She was dressed in an outrageous feathered hat and her great grandmothers clothes - and was having trouble with her old-fashioned underwear. Unfazed, she whipped it off, and handed it to Lady Feversham wi...