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No.1 Shed is a vast steel structure built on farmland used by the Royal Flying Corps. It was used to construct airships, but the first – the R31 – was commissioned only five days before the armistice.
This database was initially compiled by the C20 Society, with the aid of a grant from Historic England, in 2014. C20 churches are incredibly varied and interesting, and many remain under appreciated ...
C20 Cymru is celebrating another success, with the designation of three outstanding buildings at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion, on the Penglais Campus of the University of Aberystwyth.
As Bradford prepares to become 2025 UK City of Culture, C20 Society has partnered with Ian Chalk Architects, to produce an ambitious new proposal for the empty and abandoned Richard Dunn Sports Centre ...
When John Betjeman addressed the Solent Protection Society in the days before construction began on Fawley Power Station (1964-71, Farmer and Dark) he spoke of the “new architecture of power”. At ...
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 ...
Images courtesy of the Smithson Family Archive, featured in edited by Dirk van den Heuvel and Max Risselada, published by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004 Issues of theory and practice too often divide ...
This book includes an ‘A-Z of Brutalist Architecture’ by Jonathan Meades in which he points out that neither Sheppard Robson’s Hall of Residence in South Kensington (listed but scandalously demolished ...
The city of Izumo (population 146,000) is in Shimane Prefecture, a still remote and under-populated area located on the north coast of Honshū, the main Japanese island, facing the Sea of Japan. The ...
Allbrook House and Roehampton Library, Alton Estate, Roehampton, Diamond Geezer, Flickr ‘The best low-cost housing in the world’ was how the American critic G E Kidder-Smith described Alton West, the ...
Templewood belongs to the little crop of Hertfordshire’s post-war primary schools built at the precious moment when the experiment of prefabricating buildings in series was still fresh but had gone ...