C20 has joined other members of the Campaign to Save Liverpool Street Station in strongly objecting to the latest proposals ...

C20 Society has submitted a listing application for the Centenary Building at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester – the winner of the first RIBA Stirling Prize, in 1996. Designed by Hodder ...

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 ...

The Elain Harwood Memorial Fund has been created by the Twentieth Century Society (C20), to ensure that Elain’s invaluable contribution to the safeguarding of Britain’s remarkable modern architecture ...

The Risk List is the Society’s biannual 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 ...

The first post-war museum to be built in London and the largest urban history museum in the world, the Museum of London was designed when architects Powell & Moya were at the height of their ...

Higher than the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, yet with a concrete hyperbolic paraboloid structure often only seven inches thick, cooling towers have had a monolithic presence unlike anything else in ...

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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In February 1969 a momentous debate within the University of London about the redevelopment of a Georgian square in their Bloomsbury home marked the end of the free hand of authorities to plan cities ...

Ranking as one of the great municipal achievements of the inter-war years, the Mersey road tunnel was celebrated with pride by both Liverpool and Birkenhead when it was opened by the King George V in ...

Features of merit: Particularly the addition to the south end by Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas that won the RIBA Bronze Medal in 1930. Twelve bays to N date from circa 1875-6, and circa 1889 by W D ...