C20 has joined other members of the Campaign to Save Liverpool Street Station in strongly objecting to the latest proposals ...
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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 ...
On 7 th May, 1914, attended by ambassadors from the principal European countries that would be at war with each other thee months later, King George V opened the major extension to the British Museum, ...
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 ...
Three post-war concrete murals by artists Henry Collins (1910-1994) and Joyce Millicent Pallot (1912-2004) in Bexhill, East Sussex, have been restored thanks to local volunteers from the Bexhill ...
Venturi Scott-Brown’s National Gallery Sainsbury Wing extension (1991) was born into a precarious no-man’s land between the warring camps of neo-modernists and traditionalists who had been tussling ...
Designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis (1970-3) to house the College following its incorporation into the University of Reading. With its strong silhouette and distinctive form, this is an ...
Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall is often considered the last work of Sir Basil Spence. It was completed on 29 November 1976, ten days after the passing of its architect. But Spence had in fact been ...
I’ve known this church and its wooden church hall – the original temporary church, now demolished – for the past 25 years. Built during WWII, Farey’s church caused controversy in the local press at ...
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 Royal Artillery Memorial is second only to the Cenotaph as a war memorial as a supreme work of art and is the masterpiece of Charles Sergeant Jagger, surely the greatest British sculptor of his ...