Publications
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Found 10 publications, showing 1 - 10
Up My Street - Buildings at Risk 2017-18
£15.00 (£10.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-76-5
SAVE Britain’s Heritage latest Buildings at Risk Catalogue will be published on 28th June 2017 and features over 100 decaying buildings from across the country in need of new owners or new uses.
The neglected buildings include cottages, farms, country houses, mills, pubs, printworks, police stations, a post office, an art deco swimming pool, churches, schools and even a military gatehouse.
Many of them are over-looked historic treasures with huge potential – unique opportunities for historically minded refurbishment and re-use.
Great Expectations - Buildings at Risk 2016/17
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-75-8
Our 25th Buildings at Risk Catalogue 'Great Expectations' is a must read for anyone interested in restoring historic properties, with 100 buildings from across Britain in need of a new lease of life, inspiration from some of the most challenging cases, and plenty of practical advise.
Spotlight articles include historic cinemas, the state of heritage in Northern Ireland, and a Buildings at Risk success story in Cumbria.
The Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks (2016)
£25.00 (£20.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-74-1
This book shows how Britain has led the way in breathing new life into great historic buildings of many kinds - naval dockyards, military enclaves, textile mills, market halls, railways arches, air terminals, Victorian grand hotels, power stations, town halls and hospitals.
These heroic transformations have often been the work of enterprising commercial and often voluntary organisations. Once repaired and transformed, sometimes after years of decay, they provide places to work, live and visit. More than this they are powerful regeneration projects in places which need investment. These successes can be an inspiration to everyone who cherishes a local landmark.
Many of them are the direct or indirect result of campaigns and projects launched and commissioned by SAVE.
These are buildings which half a century ago would rarely have survived. Their revival is a creative process showing that all over Britain and beyond, historic buildings can be beacons of new life in both booming and declining economies.
Marcus Binney tells the stories of these rescues, often in the face of official indifference and even hostility, stories which are easily forgotten when a great building is restored to glory and life. When these buildings have been callously left to rot, some may need injections of grant aid, but once repaired they no longer need to be pensioners on the state but can earn their keep.
This book is a blueprint for action showing that it can take just one determined person to save an architectural marvel.
SAVE Our Strand
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
Working with John Burrell, from Burrell Foley Fischer Architects, SAVE has produced an alternative scheme for 154-158 the Strand, which were proposed for demolition by King's College London. We propose a new piece of public realm for the capital along the great processional route of the Strand, and bring the buildings back to life.
Falling In Love - Buildings at Risk 2015-16 (2015)
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-73-4
A must read for anyone interested in heritage and an essential tool for prospective restorers, SAVE's new Buildings at Risk Report 'Falling In Love' showcases historic properties in urgent need of new owners or imaginative reuses, revealing an array of exciting opportunities. Hopefully you'll fall in love with the 100 buildings at risk featured.
Spotlight articles focus on Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham's libraries, and Tbilisi in Georgia
The Destruction of the Country House: 40 Years On (2014)
£20.00 (£18.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-72-7
SAVE's latest publication marks 40 years since the landmark exhibition The Destruction of the Country House. Held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974, the exhibition had a huge impact and led to the founding of SAVE Britain's Heritage in 1975.
Written by Marcus Binney with contributions from John Harris, two of the curators of the 1974 exhibition, and prepared by Mike Fox, the book recalls some of the losses, the battles, and the many great saves which have taken place over the past forty years, many of which SAVE has been directly involved in.
Read of the battle to save The Grange, the campaign to prevent the break-up of Mentmore Towers, and the problems currently facing houses in local authority care, amongst many others. A must for anyone interested in Britain's heritage and country houses.
London's Churches are Fighting Back (2011)
£15.00 (£13.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-68-0
In 1985 SAVE published the report London's Churches are Falling Down, revealing the desperate plight of some of the capital's most beautiful places of worship.
A quarter of a century on, SAVE revisits the subject with London's Churches are Fighting Back. As well as covering those churches currently at risk, this new report also recounts the many inspiring rescue stories, looking at how decaying buildings have been re-energised by new congregations or new uses, and kept alive by vital repair grants.
This 120-page report, by Edmund Harris, features stunning new photography by Matthew Andrews.
Rediscovered Utopias: Saving London's Suburbs
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
ISBN: 978-0-905978-64-2
Edited by Bridget Cherry and Ann Robey.
Published by SAVE with the support of English Heritage.London’s leafy suburbs form a giant garden city, of pleasant low-rise housing set amidst gardens and tree-lined roads. They fulfil the longstanding English dream of a house and garden in leafy surroundings and offer an impressive model for urban living.
The sheer number of suburbs – north, south, east and west – provide a quite astonishing housing stock. Yet while most Londoners know their own suburb well, and perhaps its neighbours too, not many people know more than a fraction of the whole.
This book is intended, like many other SAVE reports before it, to be a voyage of discovery. It focuses principally on planned suburbs and estates which have a particular harmony and sometimes a distinctive pattern of streets. It looks at suburban housing built in different ways, by landowners and speculative builders, by voluntary associations and the boroughs themselves.
Yet in many places the character of these areas is being constantly eroded, by small but accretive changes to details such as windows and doors, fences, gates and railings, roofing and paving materials.
In many places, conservation area protection is not working as effectively as it could. More ‘Article 4’ directions are needed to control features that give character to suburbs. The lists of listed buildings are also seriously out of date in some London boroughs, with many architect-designed houses of the early 20th century still unlisted. The sum of all the best suburbs is more than the parts. While houses have a sense of individuality it is the harmony of whole streets and neighbourhoods which make the suburbs a delight.
Published 2010.
Brighton Churches: The Need for Action Now
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
Central Brighton is home to a number of 19th-century churches of great size and beauty. This report by the late Thomas Cocke - with stunning new photography by Matthew Andrews - examines the superb but all too little-known interiors of these churches and warns that, with rising costs of repair and maintenance combined with declining congregations, the threat of closure looms for many.
95 pages, full colour, 100 illustrations.
Published 2009.
Pathfinder (2006)
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
A new report from SAVE, condemning the mass demolitions under the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Housing Market Renewal Initiative / Pathfinder. At current rates this will see the demolition of 168,000 terraced homes in the Midlands and North of England by 2015. Published 2006.
* If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in Reviving Britain's Terraces, Life after Pathfinder (published 2010).