Charlie Laing wrote an article about the future of the Didcot Towers recently which was published in the Business section of the Oxford Times. For those of you who missed it, here’s the article. In 2014 the 6 cooling towers at Didcot power station will be knocked down. Each of these towers is 200m tall…
On April 16th Kevin McCloud will chair a public debate at RIBA on skyscrapers entitled – “Are Tall Buildings Blighting Our Skyline?” Amtico, via our Twitterfeed, has asked us for our views. We don’t, as yet, get involved in too many skyscrapers – the tallest project I have been involved in is the 15 storey…
What would you do with this building? Here’s a piece of historic architectural beauty (in my opinion, anyway). When it was first built in 1877 it probably had only the most basic heating and possibly gas lighting as there was no electricity in Birmingham at that time. It was a school and so the pupils…