17 Meliot Road is a ‘uni-seco’ prefab on the Excalibur Estate, one of 185 on the UK’s largest post-war prefab estate. Thousands of prefabs were built across bombed-out London (of 156,000 over the ...
Three post-war concrete murals by artists Henry Collins (1910-1994) and Joyce Millicent Pallot (1912-2004) in Bexhill, East ...
C20 Society has submitted a listing application for the Centenary Building at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester – the winner of the first RIBA Stirling Prize, in 1996. Designed by Hodder ...
An early home of the Labour movement has just been Grade II listed, following an application by C20 Society and Shrewsbury Civic Society. The Morris Hall in Shrewsbury, Shropshire was built in ...
The last coal-fired power station in the country, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, shuts down on the 30th of September 2024, and most ...
The Elain Harwood Memorial Fund has been created by the Twentieth Century Society (C20), to ensure that Elain’s invaluable contribution to the safeguarding of Britain’s remarkable modern architecture ...
The tabula rasa caused by the Blitz allowed the London County Council (and later the Greater London Council) to embrace the ideal of concentrated living, an anti-utopian model. Over the course of the ...
The Risk List is the Society’s biannual compilation of the top 10 most threatened twentieth and twenty-first century buildings across the UK. Our 2023-24 list includes a Bengali women’s centre in ...
Designed by Building Design Partnership, the Point was reputedly inspired by the work of avant guard provocateurs Archigram and became an instant Milton Keynes landmark upon its opening in 1985. As ...
Finsbury Health Centre was arguably modern architecture’s most important single achievement in England in the first half of the 20th century. This realisation of a radical humanitarian brief for a ...
In February 1969 a momentous debate within the University of London about the redevelopment of a Georgian square in their Bloomsbury home marked the end of the free hand of authorities to plan cities ...