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Thrilled to have some advance publicity for my new book in @telegraphnews.bsky.social Review section today and I'm glad they chose this image of #Southport Sea Bathing Lake. The water just looks so enticing @c20society.bsky.social @batsfordbooks.bsky.social

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A big well done to South Western Railway for all their dedicated hard work (and their contractors) in restoring the canopy at #RichmondStation to its former art deco glory. A pleasure to be part of the journey and we next look forward to the booking hall transformation. Tim helped Lord H unveil it.

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After 4 1/2 wonderful years, I’m saying a very fond farewell to @c20society.bsky.social. I’ve had the best time - I’ve travelled all across the UK advocating for C20th bdgs & have worked with brilliant people. If you care about conserving C20th heritage, do apply for the Head of Casework role

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🐧 “An open-air museum of modernist architecture, a stage for live music, fashion, and art?" C20 speaks to @londonermag.bsky.social on Lubetkin, Humboldts, Harry Styles and what to do with a problematic Penguin Pool.

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☕️ It's notoriously difficult to list or preserve the intangible heritage of caffs, so this an interesting curatorial alternative. Fountains Coffee House & Grill in Bradford's Oastler Centre opened 1968, closed 2023. Now several original fixtures have gone on display at @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social

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Bevis Hillier, one of the founders of the Thirties Society - forerunner of C20 - writes for @dezeen.com on the lasting legacy of Art Deco. www.dezeen.com/2025/03/10/b...

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Reports that the former Debenhams Norwich is back on the market represent an opportunity for a rethink. Previous proposals to demolish the handsome 1950s dept store for student flats were misguided. Time now for a scheme that converts the existing building. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2498960...

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📣 Do you have an unusual archi or design object with a story to tell? The Object and Ephemera features are among the most popular in our award-winning C20 Magazine - like this original 'E' from Lubetkin's Finsbury Health Centre sign. Email us with your suggestions! coordinator@c20society.org.uk

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EVENT: Viva Bas Vegas! Far from the acclaimed New Towns of Harlow and Milton Keynes, Basildon’s architectural heritage remains largely obscure. Join @cyhsal.bsky.social for a tour that proves the only way is Essex. 🗓️ Sat 15 Mar, 10-5 📍 Basildon Station 🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…

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Happy 25th anniversary to the London Eye. Since welcoming its first visitor on 9 March 2000, this landmark has offered unparalleled views of London to millions and become an icon of the London skyline. Here's to many more years of inspiring perspectives.

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Thames-side postcards: Millennium calling 📸🐻‍❄️

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“Flat-roofed and estate pubs are as British as pork scratchings and real ale” 🍺 C20 in the @dailymail.co.uk on the post-war pubs that some love to hate. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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London Eye at 25: The wheel that nearly wasn't. "Intended to stand for just a year, it now has a permanent place on the regenerated South Bank. It remains a symbol of time turning, for the millennium...of renewal and the cycles of life". Next stop, national listing? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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NEWS | Listing bid fails for Seifert’s Croydon tower www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing...

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EVENT: For the final event in our Spring Lecture Series on Great Exhibitions, Paul Pope revisits The Millennium Experience through a series of original photographs, capturing a spectacle that left a lasting impact. 📍 Alan Baxter Gallery + Online 🗓️ Fri 7 Mar, 6:30pm 🎟️ c20society.org.uk/events

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NEWS // 'A modern way to live': The Aldeburgh house of composer, arranger and conductor Imogen Holst, designed by architects HT and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown in 1962-64, has been Grade II listed following support from C20 Society. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/cadbury...

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The house may be Victorian, but the colourful decor, murals, and garden are a unique work of 20thC outsider art that deserve to be saved. @londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity. www.the-londoner.co.uk/mr-pinks-hou...

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UPDATE: Disappointing news that C20's second listing application for No 1 Croydon (Richard Seifert & Partners, 1968-70) has again been rejected. We support plans for residential conversion, but as Seifert’s most signficant tower to remain unlisted, a sympathetic approach to any works is essential.

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Five years after taking on the case, C20 is still fighting to save the glorious 1960s Kenneth Barden ceramic murals at Halifax Pool. Calderdale Council believe it isn’t possible to relocate them and wish to demolish, we strongly disagree and hope to find a solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his village

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EVENT: Join C20 for an Open Mic night spotlighting the latest research of young and upcoming heritage specialists, with diverse themes from the architecture of destruction, to shopping centres and Benidorm. 🗓️ Thu 13 Mar 2025, 6.30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery 🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

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NEWS: From John Lewis to Lewis Hamilton? C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...

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EVENT: Due to an unexpected change in the advertised schedule, the Great Exhibitions lectures for this week and last week switched places at short notice. 💻To watch Alan Powers on 'Batting for Britain: National Representation in Exhibitions, 1900-92' on catch-up, email coordinator@c20society.org.uk

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henry on the sofa

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NEWS: C20 and @c20cymru.bsky.social are celebrating the 5th Leisure Centre to be listed as a result of our ongoing campaign, and the first example in Wales. Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...

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Richard Young's 1978 portrait of the Jam outside Centre Point. Now its wildly expensive, lavishly beige apartments, a private club and residents' "wellness spa". But there's a framed print of this in the lobby, which is something.

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📖 Architects' Lives: British Library PhD Placement Scheme. An amazing opportunity to document an oral history collection of national importance, charting the built history of Britain from the 1930s to present day in the words of those who shaped it. ✍🏼 Deadline 21 Feb 2025 ➡️ bl.uk/more/researc...

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UPDATE: We've been tipped-off that the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station cranes have been moved from the Port of Tilbury to the remote Mucking Wharf landfill site in Essex. They remain in pieces more than a decade after being removed for restoration, with mystery surrounding their return.

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📰 'Youth may be wasted on the young. But it seems half a century-old brutalist architecture most certainly is not.' @etansmallman.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social on the students leading the battle to save Wolverhampton School of Art. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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#C20BuildingOfTheMonth for Feb 2025: La maison à gradins, Paris (1912-14) Alan Ainsworth heads to the 6th arrondissement, visiting a building that straddles vivacious Art Nouveau and proto-modernist, and found unexpected fame in the Last Tango in Paris. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-th…

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❤️ Valentine Adrianus Van Der Elst Illustration for Olivetti, 1970

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I wrote about Giles Gilbert Scott's telephone boxes, and how in the 80s they were rescued from extinction by the campaign group that became @c20society.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/art/architec...

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Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower

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EVENT: Our Spring Lecture Series continues, with Craig Moyes on Expo 67 and its (Laurentian) World. By far the most successful cultural event ever in Canada, it was seen as a new type of exhibition for the new global age. 🗓️ Thu 13 Feb 2025, 6:30pm 📍 Cowcross St + Online 🎟️ c20society.org.uk/events

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‘The decision [not to list the building] has allowed the local authority to wave through a wasteful and irresponsible demolition without adequate scrutiny’ C20 in The Guardian on the Centenary Building in Salford: praised then razed.

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‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’ C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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The Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat of demolition. A petition to save the building has gathered 4,500 signatures already, and @c20society.bsky.social has applied to have the building listed 🤞

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NEWS: C20 has renewed its 35 year-long campaign to designate the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre, as a Certificate of Immunity from listing the brutalist arts complex expires. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...

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☎️ #OTD 40 years ago, the Thirties Society (forerunner of C20) launched their famous Phoneboxes Campaign, after the privatisation of BT threatened the classic red kiosks with removal and mass-extinction. It remains the Society’s most successful and longest-running initiative.🧵

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Angel Square Islington, before and after. The previous building wasn’t perfect, but with upgrading and an activated street frontage, it had more to give. What a waste.

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NEWS | Listing bid to save Wolverhampton’s 1960s art school from demolition www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing...

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Great to see this Studio Sam Causer project made the RIBAJ MacEwen Awards 2025 shortlist. A thoughtful restoration of the Grade II* Kensal House Community Rooms (Edwin Maxwell Fry & Elizabeth Denby, 1936), reviving the social heart of the surrounding housing estate and making it accessible to all.

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