Rachael Smith
@itsyourstofind
Install Co-ordinator, Paisley Museum Reimagined | Tom Wright Fellow | Provenance & Collecting MSc | Art History MA | Former Curator @VERBureau | Views mine
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14-07-2012 19:12:07
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๐จBREAKING NEWS // Scottish Government has informed us that our petition for a debate on the future of Scottish listed buildings will be assessed on 9 Oct. Help us get to 5000 signatures before then! This urgent issue must be debated in Parliament. ๐ฆ Share now! โ๏ธshorturl.at/nCMdH
โThere are vast financial rewards if you demolish these old buildings and throw up brick student shoeboxes in their place. Their fate is often sealed on a golf course or the hospitality boxes of Parkhead and Ibrox: my newspaper article for The Herald heraldscotland.com/news/24631104.โฆ
The old hospice on Carlton Place has been ruined in just 6 years. It has taken two fires in a year for the Council to start enforcement action. Could Merchant City inspire New Gorbals HA's masterplan for North Laurieston? I discuss this with Kevin McKenna ๐๐ป heraldscotland.com/news/24633048.โฆ
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Left to rot or burn: How Glasgow is squandering the legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh heraldscotland.com/news/24687054.โฆ @theAHSS @SAVEBrit Historic Environment Scotland Scottish Government Royal Institute of British Architects Glasgow City Heritage Trust Glasgow Building Preservation Trust New Glasgow Society
"There is still no national policy on embodied carbon emissions. Itโs a broken model that incentivises demolition and it needs to change." SAVE director Henrietta Billings writes in Architecture Today as M&S get permission to demolish their Oxford Street store: ๐shorturl.at/wX07W
๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ A planning application has been made to demolish the Category B-listed faรงade of the former McCorquodaleโs Printing Works on Maxwell Street. They claim the faรงade is beyond viable repair. I am challenging this