Higher than the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (300ft+), yet with a concrete hyperbolic structure in some places only seven inches thick, cooling towers are unlike any other structure in the British ...
Odhams Walk in Covent Garden, built in 1979 by the Greater London Council (GLC), was ahead of its time. Its complex geometry – stepped flats organized around common courtyards, elevated galleries, and ...
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 Risk List is the Societies’ annual 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 J.R.C. Bethell from the County Architect’s Office and built between 1986 and 87, South Glamorgan County Hall was an early keystone project in the regeneration of Cardiff’s waterfront.
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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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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 ...
You can look for churches using the search boxes or on the pins on the map. Each entry gives the architect and location, and the icons on the left show listing status. Where available, we have ...