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 ...

The embassy of Czechoslovakia (1965-1970) was planned as a statement of the country’s new communist society, in the new style adopted by Czech architects: Brutalism. In the mid twentieth century the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the involvement of a distinguished architect, Battersea Power Station became the first electricity generating station to receive public acclaim. The original proposal for a large ...