Bath School plan dropped

Sir James Dyson on 7 October scrapped plans for a  £56 million School of Design Innovation in Bath at the old Stothert and Pitt site at South Quays within the City of Bath World Heritage site, which the forthcoming UNESCO/ICOMOS joint mission was to have considered. The Bath Chronicle reported that Dyson abandoned his plan [...]

Historic Urban Landscapes: A New Concept? A New Category of World Heritage Sites?

12th FUUH International Seminar 5th to 10th April 2009, Hanoi, Republic of Viet Nam The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Hanoi People’s Committee, Hanoi University of Architecture (HAU), the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the Organizing Committee are pleased to announce the forthcoming 12th FUUH International Seminar to be held at the National Convention Center [...]

Scottish World Heritage Sites in the wider European context

A series of four illustrated lectures and discussion All lectures to be held in the Board Room of NTS Headquarters 28 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, at 5.45 for 6.00pm (to end by 8.00pm) Tuesday 7 October 2008 Dr David Breeze (Historic Scotland) on “The Antonine Wall and its relevance to the wider European definition of the [...]