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Elizabeth Hopkirk

@swix

Buildings, heritage, art, nature | Writer, editor, cyclist, optimist. Always something interesting round the next corner...

London Katılım Temmuz 2008
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@SAVEtoReuse It’s stunning! Well worth a visit. Well done to all the conservators - and the whole team!
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🗝️👀Open to the public for first time ever, the grade I-listed 1730s Barts North Wing has been restored thanks to a £9.5m project - including magnificent Great Hall and Hogarth paintings. This comes alongside new art + architecture wellbeing programme for patients and staff 🩺
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Chatty Man chimes in on SAVE at 50! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have Alan Carr backing SAVE: “One of the many things I love about SAVE is the fact that they believe buildings deserve a second chance...” 📬 Join us & Alan in backing historic buildings: bit.ly/4556p3G
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@SAVEtoReuse We had a great time! So many interesting events packed into 2days. Loved the #justdoit tales: open a building up & see who comes. The dance floor in pic4 is soon to be a microgreens farm, complementing mushroom fm below. #Nudge are changing lives as well as #unionstreet #heritage
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👏 Thx for the warm welcome, #Plymouth & Nudge Community Builders. What an inspiring couple of days seeing yr brilliant work bringing derelict buildings back to life step by step, & sharing our national experience. 👷 Yr creativity, grit & joy are contagious! #SAVEis50 #heritage
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There’s a real buzz in the room today for ⁦@SAVEtoReuse⁩’s #BuildinginContext conference in Norwich. Director Henrietta Billings sets the scene: Cities like Norwich are successful because their historic streets & buildings attract people and businesses who want to be here
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The Department Store, Brixton: Architects @squirepartners bought the derelict Bon Marche in Brixton in 2015 and turned it into their super-cool HQ, with exhibition space, a brasserie, a secret staircase and roof-top bar🍸 📸James Jones
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@swix The Store in Oxford city centre, formerly Boswells
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Love these examples of old #departmentstores reimagined 👇 💡There are loads more. Have we missed your favourite? Tell us! #heritage #architecture #retrofit #sustainability #creativity #reimagineretail #highstreets
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🗞️Great to see our campaign highlighted in the @FT today. In the hands of creative architects and engineers, buildings like M&S Oxford St can be reused. ♻️ There’s 3 examples on Oxford St alone… 🧵A thread...

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💥'Grounds for refusal have grown in 3yrs since M&S submitted its plan. There is now an unanswerable case for govt to act in accelerating industry’s shift twds reusing bldgs' Open letter to @AngelaRayner signed by architects, engineers & Bill Bryson in @thetimes #SAVEcampaigns
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‘Key to revitalising the high street?’ 💥 Great piece in the Observer by @RowanMoore full of examples of old department stores all over the country being converted for retail, housing, workspace, labs, culture, events. Bring it on! #Dontwastebuildings
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'These old buildings are too big, significant & in some cases too beautiful simply to be binned, w all the waste of resources that entails. There is the ingenuity & affection out there' A fascinating catalogue of imaginative re-uses♻️ bit.ly/4e1M020 #retrofit #heritage

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So what does the shortlist tell you about the future of architecture? The answer is: The best new building in Britain... is an old one. #savebritainsheritage
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🌲Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Arch. This Dorset site consists of several farm buildings dating back to the 19th century. The Yard has been renovated into a multifunctional space offering holiday lets, community spaces and educational facilities on a 250-acre farm. ♻️
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🏘️ Park Hill Phase 2 by @MikhailRiches and @urban_splash. This former social housing scheme built by Sheffield City Council in the 1950s is an iconic building in the city and Europe’s largest listed structure. The regeneration has created 195 flats & 2000 m² of commercial space👍
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