
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week World Architecture Festival (WAFG) features ‘Le Corbusier and the stones of Istanbul’.
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For World Architecture Festival (WAF), Rory Olcayto writes:
….in 1925, he published the ‘Plan Voisin’, a blueprint for central Paris that would flatten centuries of history for 18 identical, 60-storey cruciform skyscrapers. Yet a few years later, he proposed the opposite for Istanbul, seeking to safeguard the ancient, organic city that had beguiled him. Why?
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IHBC’s call to all HESPR members
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