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 ...

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 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 Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners in 1987, the 4,180 sq m superstore provides a large, column-free interior. It followed his Sainsbury’s store in Camden Town, currently the subject of a listing ...

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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The University of Ibadan’s buildings present an interpretative labyrinth – but that’s what makes them so interesting. Planned and built between 1948 and 1958 to house Nigeria’s first university, the ...

It was perhaps because of one of its illustrations that Colin Buchanan’s 1963 government report was so widely reported – everywhere from the Daily Worker to The Tablet – and reprinted as a mass-market ...

This bold mural, composed of nineteen precast concrete blocks, was commissioned as part of a development centred on an office block, and forms part of the walkway to Glasgow’s Charing Cross railway ...

The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) in East Berlin’s centre is being demolished while I am writing this text. The Palast was one of East Germany’s most significant architectural projects.