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 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 ...
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 ...
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There are few monographs on ecclesiastical architects of the 20th century. Research for our recent book 100 Churches 100 Years made clear how many major figures have no publication devoted to them – ...
The buildings of F. X. Velarde represented what Nicolas Pevsner once described as “epoch-making” examples of English church architecture, briefly during the 1930’s this looked like a new direction, ...
Designed by Architects Co-Partnership (ACP) as a school for 600 children, the development was completed in 1964, named after Lilian Mary Baylis (1874-1937), champion of high-quality theatre and ballet ...