As the architecture world gears up for the announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize, the race is on to save a space-age school ...

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 ...

Patrick Hodgkinson began to develop the concept for the design of The Brunswick Centre with his study of the Loughborough Road Estate in Lambeth by the LCC, where Sir Leslie Martin was the chief ...

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 ...

At 1000 square feet this is the largest secular work of the sculptor Adam Kossowski. The frieze, which depicts local historic scenes in high relief, was designed in 1964 and completed in 1965.

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 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 ...

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.

Opening as recently as 2007, this £13 million final phase of the British Library was designed by Long & Kentish with Colin St John Wilson to provide a world class facility for all aspects of book ...

The UOP Fragrance Factory was designed in 1969 by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano as a purpose-built perfume laboratory and manufacturing site for Universal Oil Products. It was completed in 1973, and ...

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 ...

In 1920 the young architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) was given the opportunity to design an observatory for the purpose of making measurements that might validate Albert Einstein’s theory of ...