It is one of history’s fabulous freaks that a major example of Modern architecture queens it over a minor south coast resort. Germany’s loss was England’s gain when Mendelsohn escaped to London, and ...
As Bradford prepares to become 2025 UK City of Culture, C20 Society has partnered with Ian Chalk Architects, to produce an ...
C20 Cymru is celebrating another success, with the designation of three outstanding buildings at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion, on the Penglais Campus of the University of Aberystwyth.
C20 Society has given support in principle for new plans to convert the No 1 Croydon building (formerly the NLA tower) from office to residential use, while also submitting a renewed listing ...
Built in 1937, Greenside was a fine example of an early flat-roofed modern movement house, by Connell, Ward and Lucas, one of the most innovative firms of the decade. Pevsner praised the building for ...
Placed on the mountain top 1776 metres (5826 feet) above sea level, the Sacrario di Monte Grappa is the largest and most extraordinary of the Italian memorial ossuaries. It is monumental and ...
In 2017, the year marking the 50th anniversary of the legislation that introduced Conservation Areas, C20 Society were awarded a grant by Historic England to research C20th conservation areas. The ...
The Risk List is the Societies’ annual compilation of the top 10 most threatened twentieth and twenty-first century buildings across the UK. Our 2023 list includes a Bengali women’s centre in London’s ...
What a site for a building! Durham Cathedral rides on its rocky promontory above the wooded gorge of the River Wear in a manner that is pure picturesque, as John Sell Cotman’s watercolours show us.
This rectangular ceramic mural of 8 metres long by 1.4 metres is a tribute to the golden age for occupational medicine in Wales. The contribution of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in making the ...
Colin St John Wilson’s work on the British Library began in 1962, in partnership with Leslie Martin on a design for a site in Bloomsbury, and ended with the opening of the building (in truncated form) ...