IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: dezeen on how the Venice Architecture Biennale’s British Pavilion is examining ‘threats to public space

logoThe 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 features a post from dezeen on the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and how ‘high street, the pub, even the public toilet are more under threat than ever before.’

… how specific public spaces can be better designed…

… high street, the pub, even the public toilet are more under threat than ever before…

Lizzie Crook at dezeen writes:

….The exhibition, named The Garden of Privatised Delights, comprises a series of interactive rooms that investigate how specific public spaces can be better designed….

…curated by Manijeh Verghese and Madeleine Kessler of Unscene Architecture in response to a rapid increase in privately-owned public space in Britain.

The aim is to encourage discourse on how private and public sectors can work together to improve the use of, access to and ownership of all public spaces.

‘The high street, the pub, even the public toilet are more under threat than ever before,’ explained Verghese….

‘The themes explored within The Garden of Privatised Delights have become even more urgent as a result of the global pandemic, including the demise of the high street….

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