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What’s the point of World Heritage Status?
The UN education, science and culture body Unesco has shown its teeth and removed Dresden’s baroque cityscape’s world heritage status. It decided that a new four-lane bridge across the Elbe river, in...
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BBC show tells story of battle for Covent Garden
BBC2 series Saving Britain’s Past has been a real treat. Last night it told the story of the battle for the redevelopment of Covent Garden in London. It’s a tale I knew nothing about. The Covent Garden...
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Euston Arch to be reborn?
Interesting news today of plans to resurrect the Euston Arch, one of the most high-profile victims of overzealous post-war planning in the capital. The Arch was built in 1837 and stood at the entrance...
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Tories plan heritage boost
Conservatism with a small c could be coming back into fashion, if the Tories win the next election. In recent weeks the Tories have been tripping over themselves to tell us what we have in store,...
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Five UK sites on monuments ‘watch list’
Five UK sites have made it onto the ‘watch list’ of a charity dedicated to preserving historic monuments. The World Monuments Fund (no, I’ve never heard of it either), based in New York releases a list...
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Rubble Club awards
The Rubble Club, the organisation for architects who have had a building demolished in their own lifetime, is on the brink of announcing its first annual award to commemorate The Best Demolished...
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Stonehenge makes latest ‘at risk’ list
Stonehenge has made it onto the latest in a long series of ‘heritage at risk’ lists… The list, put together by travel magazine Wanderust (not exactly UNESCO), puts Stonehenge amongst other global sites...
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