Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall is often considered the last work of Sir Basil Spence. It was completed on 29 November 1976, ten days after the passing of its architect. But Spence had in fact been ...
In 2017, the year marking the 50th anniversary of the legislation that introduced Conservation Areas, C20 Society were awarded a grant by Historic England to research C20th conservation areas. The ...
Designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis (1970-3) to house the College following its incorporation into the University of Reading. With its strong silhouette and distinctive form, this is an ...
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 ...
Thanks to the involvement of a distinguished architect, Battersea Power Station became the first electricity generating station to receive public acclaim. The original proposal for a large ...
Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach developed at the southern end of the resort from an informal fairground at the beginning of the twentieth century. It relied from the outset upon American rides and was soon ...
The Royal Artillery Memorial is second only to the Cenotaph as a war memorial as a supreme work of art and is the masterpiece of Charles Sergeant Jagger, surely the greatest British sculptor of his ...
When the winter newsletter a year ago last reported on the dilemma of this seminal modernist building, the house had already stood empty for several years. The tug-of-war between its owners who were ...
All who take the celebrated ferry across the Mersey will be struck with the beauty of Liverpool from the water. The famous early twentieth-century buildings from the time of its peak prosperity as a ...
The site was once the landscaped grounds of Brooklands House, now the local office of English Heritage, which were subsequently developed with temporary government buildings during the Second World ...
Holborn Library is a milestone in the history of the modern public library, both as the first large, multi-functional, post-war library in London and for its pioneering architecture, with an elegant ...