As the architecture world gears up for the announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize, the race is on to save a space-age school ...
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 ...
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 ...
Though the western fringe of Cambridge is home to a number of key twentieth-century buildings, including Churchill College and several Modernist villas, it is on the whole not an area of architectural ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
No longer operating as a Salvation Army Hall. Building now used as the Lantern of Knowledge, an independent Muslim boys secondary school.
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 ...
The church closed and ownership passed to Leeds Girls High School in 1986 and renamed the Elinor Lupton Centre. It became unoccupied in 2010 and was put up for sale in 2011. A planning application was ...
A colour filled 20th Century meditational ‘shrine’ in the heart of Sussex: Basil Spence’s Meeting House on the grounds of the University of Sussex Owing to growing secularisation, there was a ...