Publications in Print
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Found 33 publications, showing 21 - 30
Pavilions in Peril
£5.00 (£3.00 Friends Price)
An illustrated report highlighting some 50 garden buildings - grottoes temples, menageries, bath houses, boat houses, tea houses, belvederes and gazebos - that were at risk in July 1987, the date of publication.
Planners Hit Back: The Scourge of Britain's High Streets
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
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 The lists of listed buildings are also seriously out of date in some London boroughs, with many architect-designed houses of the early 20th century still unlisted.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.
Revive and Survive: Buildings at Risk Catalogue 2018-19
£7.00 (£5.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-77-2
SAVE Britain’s Heritage’s Buildings at Risk Catalogue, Revive and Survive, was published on 27 June 2018. It features over 100 empty and neglected buildings gathered from all round the country which need a fresh start to give them renewed life and to ensure their survival.
These forgotten buildings include courthouses, theatres, shipyard offices, churches, barracks, a shopping arcade, a tiny welsh toll cottage, a house inhabited by George Eliot, several large country houses, pubs, town halls, factories and allotment huts.
The pages of the catalogue are full of photographs of unknown or overlooked historic gems some huge, some humble. All have an individual story to tell and are just waiting for sympathetic restoration and reuse.
SAVE Mentmore for the Nation
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
A booklet about the treasures of Mentmore Towers, published in January 1977 as part of SAVE's campaign to preserve the house and its contents for the nation. The collection was subsequently sold but the building remains at risk today.
SAVE Our Strand
£5.00 (£3.00 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.
Silence in Court - The Future of the UK's Historic Law Courts
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
SAVE's long awaited book on historic law courts is finally in print, with over 170 photographs, many previously unpublished, of the UK's historic courts - a remarkable group of buildings. The report looks at the problems faced by the buildings across the UK (with the PFI route of procurement being at the fore), as well as at those that have been successfully refurbished to meet modern expectations.
Published February 2004Special double offer - SAVE's No.1 Poultry reports
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
To coincide with the RIBA exhibition 'Circling the Square', SAVE is offering copies of our 1984 and 1987 reports on the No.1 Poultry case for £10 (plus P&P).
Mies is great, London is greater (1984)
Give These Vigorous Victorian Buildings a Chance (1987)
SAVE fought two major public inquiries in the 1980s to save the Mappin and Webb buildings from demolition, winning the first, but losing the second. As part of SAVE's campaign several short reports and publications were produced, two of which are available to purchase here.
The RIBA exhibition details the designs of the two proposals, and the campaigns to save the Mappin and Webb buildings. It runs until 25 June 2017, and is free to attend. More information here.
St Albans Can Be Saved
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
Published in February 1986 in conjunction with the Victorian Society, this pamphlet champions the cause of the neglected yet magnificent St Albans church in Teddington, Middlesex.
The Battle For M&S Oxford Street: Why This Landmark Case Matters
£7.99 (£5.99 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-83-3
Marks & Spencer’s plan to demolish and rebuild their flagship store in London’s West End ignited public indignation and quickly became one of SAVE’s biggest cases.
It is the first time heritage and sustainability have taken joint centre stage at a public inquiry and the outcome could have far-reaching consequences for development in the UK.
This report tells the story so far.