Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 July 2025
Looking after the building and its context speaks to something profoundly human – the impulse to invest ourselves in things that extend beyond our own lifespans.
building conservation
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☀️ Eustace Collection: Looking through Olive's Eyes.
Inspired by Edwin Smith’s photography and Olive Cook’s letters, uncover hidden narratives and historical layers that shape this town’s heritage, revealing new ways of seeing place, art, and memory.
⟁ Member's Supplement:Conservation of the safety screen at The Royal Theatre, Northampton
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Face
There is a face peeping out from behind the flaking limewash.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 Nov 2023
I can smell the space before I can see it. It is dark and dank, and it takes a while for my eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior which reveals itself intermittently in swags of sunlight dropping in from behind the clouds.
Guest Post: Surface tension: the surprising truth about many of our historic facades.
In appreciating this it also demonstrates an innate sense of how buildings work, a relationship then between the seemly and seamlessness.
Helmsley Castle Tudor Mansion Conservation
What I took from this tour was the commitment of the English Heritage project team to the smallest details.