C20 has joined other heritage organisations in strongly objecting to the latest proposals that are playing Monopoly with ...

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 ...

Every conservation society needs a martyr – a demolition so outrageous and shocking that the press and public realise the need for the society. With the Georgian Group, it was the Adelphi; with the ...

The National Theatre is the masterpiece of Denys Lasdun & Partners, and has a good claim to be Britain’s finest late-modernist public building. It was commissioned after a protracted, contentious ...

Lyons Israel Ellis, though well known as a finishing school for the famed likes of Stirling, Gowan, Colquhoun et al, were the sort of Brutalists that didn’t get Yale scholarships, shiny monographs or ...

The Scottish National War Memorial is one of the outstanding pieces of public art of its time. A shrine to the nation’s collective loss, the Memorial commemorates all the individual men and women of ...

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 ...

The initial disdain for the Festival Hall was similarly felt for the new Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, when the aim of the complex to complement rather than compete with ...

Text by Rutter Carroll, Image by Photo-Mayo. The precision designed architectural sculpture that is the Engineering Research Station (ERS) dominates the skyline of Killingworth in Newcastle and is a ...

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 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 ...

Alan Clawley has been the most dogged supporter of Birmingham’s Central Library over the decade and a half leading up to its demise. While Library Story pays tribute to John Madin’s notable ...