As the architecture world gears up for the announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize, the race is on to save a space-age school ...
C20 Society is backing a new initiative from the London Museum, who have launched a public-call out for historic twentieth century signage to feature in Hanging Out – a permanent installation planned ...
The Scottish architect James Robb Scott, (1882 – 1965) designed a string of railways stations – from Bishopstone to Bromley North, Horsham to Hastings, Ramsgate to Richmond – but his Art Deco ...
Allbrook House and Roehampton Library, Alton Estate, Roehampton, Diamond Geezer, Flickr ‘The best low-cost housing in the world’ was how the American critic G E Kidder-Smith described Alton West, the ...
The Super Swimming Stadium at Morecambe, Lancashire, was one of the grandest of the 1930s modernist seaside lidos. This massive structure measuring 396ft. by 110ft. was said to be the largest outdoor ...
When Hugh Casson and Neville Conder’s Ismaili Centre opened in 1985, it took a prominent place within South Kensington’s Victorian elegance, and symbolised the Ismaili Muslim community’s identity and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Building work on the famous Bauhaus Building in Dessau started in 1925 and was completed in 1926, following the relocation of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau. At the same time, a short distance away ...
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 ...
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 ...