Architecture news


Luminaire puts Bas Mooarc in spotlight

GUERNSEY architects have featured on the shortlist for this year’s Royal Institute of British Architects Downland Prize.


Modern architecture ‘needs to be sensitive’

ARCHITECTURE in the 21st century needs to be creative but sensitive to its environment, according to BasMooarc director Jamie Falla.


Modernists win the day

A LIVELY debate on whether architecture was ruining Guernsey saw the audience vote last night in favour of architects.


Guernsey inspired the Wizard World designer

THE new Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida, was built with Guernsey in mind.


Environment ‘willing to justify actions over eyesores’

ENVIRONMENT minister Peter Sirett has moved to answer criticisms of his department over so-called ‘eyesore architecture’.


Pastiche designs lead to a ‘watered down old Guernsey’

BUILDING styles must move with the times, according to the president of the Guernsey Society of Architects.


Campaign aims to end ‘eyesore architecture’

A PETITION has been launched to stop ‘architectural eyesores’ being built on key sites.


The blight of eyesore architecture

THE launch of a petition aimed at trying to prevent ‘eyesore architecture’ from spreading around Guernsey will be welcomed by many islanders, who feel that too much is being lost in the name of progress.


Give us a truly grand design…

ISLANDERS have wasted little time in expressing their opinions about the proposed new clubhouse mooted for the Careening Hard and of those who have done so, most are opposed to the grand designs put forward.

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