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Joe Holyoak

Architect, lecturer and urban designer. Member of the Victorian Society

Comment: Ladywood regen plans must not repeat past mistakes

Architect Joe Holyoak casts his eye over the next major public plans to regenerate inner city suburb as the council brings a private developer on board

Comment: Houses built in factories are the answer

Architect Joe Holyoak welcomes a move by the city to start building more municipal housing

Comment: HSBC's close encounter is a tall order

Broad Street Birmingham

Architect Joe Holyoak argues the new headquarters of HSBC 海角视频 makes a good fist of fitting in nicely with its new neighbours

Comment: Less is more for urban parks

Birmingham Wholesale Markets

Architect and columnist Joe Holyoak says there is good sentiment but misplaced ambition behind campaign for new urban Birmingham park

Comment: Jewellery Quarter factory conversion shows how it should be done

Jewellery Quarter

Architect Joe Holyoak heaps praise on a small but well-executed renovation and suggests more projects should follow this example

Comment: It pays to help businesses underneath the arches

Jewellery Quarter

Architect Joe Holyoak assess the potential impact of Network Rail's plans to sell thousands of archways including those where Birmingham's diversity thrives

Comment: 30 years on from meeting that sparked a revolution

Architect Joe Holyoak looks back to a meeting of minds - including his own - in Birmingham which shaped the future face of the city

Why is the fine design of Port Loop lost on those who should know better?

Birmingham City Council

Architect Joe Holyoak fights the corner for a major regeneration which wasn't universally loved by the city's planners

Focusing on what is authentic to Birmingham

Architect Joe Holyoak argues there is a lot to love about the city's architecture - whatever the聽 planning policies says

Comment: High-tech architects battle for HS2 top billing

Regular Birmingham Post columnist Joe Holyoak welcomes the return of an elder statesmen architect who vowed never to work with Birmingham again

University's new sports centre is strong on character

University of Birmingham

Architect Joe Holyoak takes a look over the long-awaited new 拢55m Sport and Fitness centre which opened last month at the University of Birmingham

Birmingham's history has an economic future

Architect Joe Holyoak makes a final plea to retain two historic city buildings tabled for demolition as part of massive new housing development

Hawker Yard pop-up idea is long-term winner

Architect Joe Holyoak assesses whether so-called 'pop-up architecture' is a great answer to the problem of unused space

Birmingham's conservation areas only work if residents are on side

Architect Joe Holyoak assess if and how the city's historic conservation areas can be protected and preserved for future generations

New future for Typhoo Wharf is my cup of tea

Architect Joe Holyoak gives a firm thumbs up to plans to inject new life into former tea factory in Digbeth

Privatising Jewellery Quarter street is a dangerous road to go down

University College Birmingham

Architect Joe Holyoak takes a dim view of University College Birmingham's plan to close a Jewellery Quarter street in a bid to safeguard its students

Time for Birmingham to banish our inferiority complex and make this right

Birmingham Smithfield

Architect Joe Holyoak takes the marketing men to task after another bout of over-hyping - this time for the new Birmingham Smithfield plan

Why 'our Regent Street' must be saved

Architect Joe Holyoak takes a dim view of the latest plans to build new offices in Birmingham city centre - and wave goodbye to part of the city's architectural history

Can we bear to let Dudley Zoo design classic crumble?

Architect Joe Holyoak examines what fate awaits run-down parts of famous zoo and no guarantees of funding mean an uncertain future lies ahead

Comment: Can the Beorma Quarter match its towering ambition?

As work on the next phases of the Beorma Quarter in Digbeth is imminent, architect Joe Holyoak casts his eye over one of most significant regeneration projects

City securing the sweet melancholy of death for our future generations

Jewellery Quarter

Architect Joe Holyoak takes a look at plans to renovate two 'remarkable' and well-visited cemeteries in the Jewellery Quarter

Squaring the circle in a space that has never been at ease

Centenary Square

Joe Holyoak examines the pending project to rip up Centenary Square and replace it with new public realm less than 25 years since it was last revamped

Why on Earth is high rise considered high quality?

Are high-rise buildings really the be all and end all for city-centre architecture, asks Joe Holyoak.

A golden development in the Jewellery Quarter

Jewellery Quarter

A welcome piece of public realm has been built in the Jewellery Quarter, something the city needs more of, argues Joe Holyoak

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