Review 2016
Review 2016
200 Awards and Counting!
This has been an exciting year for us as we celebrate surpassing 200 awards and commendations for our work, including the Wimpole Gothic Tower (see p16-17) being named Grand Prix Laureate at this year’s Europa Nostra Award—our 16th Europa Nostra win/commendation! The Wimpole Gothic Tower also received a Commendation in this year’s Civic Trust Awards. […]
Review 2016
In the Footsteps of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
2016 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot Brown, better known as ‘Capability’ Brown, the acclaimed late 18th century landscape designer. As such he is renowned internationally for his soft informal landscapes and the English style which replaced the fashionable formal landscapes of the early 18th century inspired by Dutch and French precedent. […]
Review 2016
Saving Volk’s Railway: Our New Project Management Service
As part of Donald Insall Associates’ emerging cultural heritage and project management service, we were delighted to be appointed to project manage the conservation and regeneration of the world’s oldest electric railway in December 2015, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The £2 million “Saving Volk’s Railway” project in Brighton consists of a new […]
Review 2016
Concrete, Modernism and Conservation
Concrete and Modernism are two words not generally associated with Donald Insall Associates. However, over the last decade we have given heritage and conservation advice on many well-known pre-and post-World War II Modernist buildings. These include the Peter Jones store on Sloane Square of 1935-37 (by Professor C.H Riley and Slater & Moberley; the Commonwealth […]
News, Review 2016
Interpreting a Model Estate Village for the 21st Century
Llandwrog village was built in the middle of the nineteenth century as a model estate village of distinct Picturesque Gothic flavour, linked to the Glynllifon estate mansion nearby. The paternalistic influence of its landlord remains today. At the heart of the village lies St Twrog’s Church on an elevated site to the design of the […]
Review 2016
Heaven on Earth
Once described by Queen Mary, as ‘the nearest place on earth to heaven’, the grade II* Registered Park and Gardens of Plumpton Rocks near Knaresborough in Yorkshire risked loss and was added to the Heritage at Risk Register in 2012. Donald Insall Associates was commissioned in September 2015 to lead the design team to carry […]
Review 2016
Stockton House: Revival of an Elizabethan Gem
The architecture of south Wiltshire owes much to the prosperity of the woollen industry at the end of the 16th century. Some of the most memorable and picturesque towns and villages in the region owe their architectural character to the proceeds of this once lucrative trade. Some, such as Bradford on Avon, display the best […]
Review 2016
Suffrage at the Doors of St Stephen’s: The Palace of Westminster
New Dawn, designed by Mary Branson, Parliamentary Artist in Residence to Women’s Suffrage, is a permanent artwork to commemorate women’s suffrage in Parliament. The artwork is located in St Stephen’s Porch, directly above the entrance to St Stephen’s Hall. During 1916, amid the horrors of the First World War, a general election was rapidly approaching. […]
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