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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
Ladywood
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
Housing
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 UK 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
Masshouse
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
Construction
Architect Joe Holyoak argues there is a lot to love about the city's architecture - whatever the planning policies says
Comment: High-tech architects battle for HS2 top billing
High Speed 2
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 £55m Sport and Fitness centre which opened last month at the University of Birmingham
Birmingham's history has an economic future
Construction
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
Digbeth
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
Moseley
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
Digbeth
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
Southside
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?
Dudley Zoo
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?
Digbeth
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?
Colmore Row
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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