Ding it Doon - Scottish Civic Trust
... There have been specific issues that have resulted, most notably the case in the House of Lords in 1997 (Shimizu (UK) v Westminster City Council 1A11 ER 481) where a judgement was issued that works involving the partial demolition of a listed building should no longer be regarded as “demolition” but ...
... There have been specific issues that have resulted, most notably the case in the House of Lords in 1997 (Shimizu (UK) v Westminster City Council 1A11 ER 481) where a judgement was issued that works involving the partial demolition of a listed building should no longer be regarded as “demolition” but ...
Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Residential
... example, the National Park Service allows buildings with non-original siding to contribute to a historic district if: (1) it can be ascertained that the original wall material is intact beneath the non-original siding; and (2) if the non-original wall material does not cover or require the removal o ...
... example, the National Park Service allows buildings with non-original siding to contribute to a historic district if: (1) it can be ascertained that the original wall material is intact beneath the non-original siding; and (2) if the non-original wall material does not cover or require the removal o ...
Addressing the URM seismic risk in Victoria
... vulnerability of these buildings. Recognizing the life safety risk from these structures in the event of an earthquake, Victoria has taken a voluntary but proactive approach to the seismic retrofit of heritage buildings, including tax incentives. The paper reports on retrofit progress in Victoria, m ...
... vulnerability of these buildings. Recognizing the life safety risk from these structures in the event of an earthquake, Victoria has taken a voluntary but proactive approach to the seismic retrofit of heritage buildings, including tax incentives. The paper reports on retrofit progress in Victoria, m ...
LISTED BUILDINGS AND CURTILAGE Historic England Advice Note
... land and has done so since before 1st July 1948. Any ancillary object or structure fixed to a listed building is also treated as part of the building, again unless it is otherwise explicitly excluded in the list entry. That can itself raise difficult questions. Please see https://historicengland.org ...
... land and has done so since before 1st July 1948. Any ancillary object or structure fixed to a listed building is also treated as part of the building, again unless it is otherwise explicitly excluded in the list entry. That can itself raise difficult questions. Please see https://historicengland.org ...
Nottingham City Centre Urban Design Guide Part2
... building height is the same as the width of the street. This ratio increases on secondary streets that are narrower with the same height of buildings and also in the Lace Market where the buildings are taller. The tightest enclosure ratios are in the alleyways which form miniature canyons running th ...
... building height is the same as the width of the street. This ratio increases on secondary streets that are narrower with the same height of buildings and also in the Lace Market where the buildings are taller. The tightest enclosure ratios are in the alleyways which form miniature canyons running th ...
Full Text - Columbia University
... This type of plan was attacked by tenement reformers. There were a lot of people that wanted to improve by legal mandate the construction of tenements. And there was a huge campaign to get buildings like this building to be declared illegal to construct anymore. And the first major tenement house la ...
... This type of plan was attacked by tenement reformers. There were a lot of people that wanted to improve by legal mandate the construction of tenements. And there was a huge campaign to get buildings like this building to be declared illegal to construct anymore. And the first major tenement house la ...
Issues paper for the IHBC 30 January 2017
... IHBC, English Heritage, SPAB and others and others then successfully argued the case for special consideration of all older traditional and breathable buildings. Our aim then, and now, was and continues to be to ensure that older buildings are part of the solution to climate change challenges, with ...
... IHBC, English Heritage, SPAB and others and others then successfully argued the case for special consideration of all older traditional and breathable buildings. Our aim then, and now, was and continues to be to ensure that older buildings are part of the solution to climate change challenges, with ...
City of Lebanon Historic District Guidelines
... necessary, the new material should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated by historic, physical, or pictorial evi ...
... necessary, the new material should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated by historic, physical, or pictorial evi ...
GSCO-2013-0030-skyscraper-paper
... also certain about the sort of politics that attaches to such aesthetic choices. This account asserts that skyscrapers are about egos, whether corporate or state (King 2004, 10), or an element in a cultural battle between old and new money (Rubin 1979), or old and new cities (Acuto 2010) and it is d ...
... also certain about the sort of politics that attaches to such aesthetic choices. This account asserts that skyscrapers are about egos, whether corporate or state (King 2004, 10), or an element in a cultural battle between old and new money (Rubin 1979), or old and new cities (Acuto 2010) and it is d ...
Architecture of Chennai
Chennai architecture is a confluence of many architectural styles. From ancient Dravidian temples built by the Pallavas, to the Indo-Saracenic style (pioneered in Madras) of the colonial era, to 20th-century steel and chrome of skyscrapers. Chennai has a colonial core in the port area, surrounded by progressively newer areas as one travels away from the port, punctuated with old temples, churches and mosques.As of 2014, Chennai city, within its corporation limits covering 426 sq km, has about 625,000 buildings, of which about 35,000 are multi-storied (with four and more floors). Of these, nearly 19,000 are designated as commercial ones.