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Conservation
and the IKEA
generation
Michael Davis, unveils a new independent project to help
put architectural conservation back on the agenda.
n recent decades, Scotland has increasingly become a land
of conservation contrasts. In this Scotland, the architecture
of our capital city is, happily, immaculately preserved, while
huge swathes of the country see increasing indignities
perpetrated on listed buildings and buildings within conservation
areas. This disjunction is mirrored in the deep divide which has
opened between the relatively few publicly and lottery funded
schemes to restore historic buildings, where Historic Scotland
has been able to insist on HY