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Slough Town Hall Listing Refused - DCMS overturns English...
16 February, 2010

The Twentieth Century Society is extremely disappointed that the DCMS has chosen to disregard English Heritage’s advice and has refused to list Slough Town Hall. Revealingly, the Secretary of State was ‘persuaded by the evidence provided by others’ – in this case a consultant working for the very [...] Read more here...

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Cripps Building, St John's College, Cambridge

Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building at St John’s College, Cambridge, which was listed last year at Grade II*, has enjoyed a good press from the time of its completion in 1967. “A masterpiece by one of the best architectural partnerships in the country”, said Pevsner Read more here...

C20 Magazine
12 February, 2010

Features include London underground stations recently put forward for listing by the Society and articles on Portmeirion, architect Blunden Shadbolt, and event reports, including one on the Society's recent trip to Brazil. Read more here...

C20 Spring Lecture Series
12 February, 2010

How have our towns changed over the last 40 years? Do we now rate of revile the modern buildings and infrastructure admired in the 1960s? After an introductory lecture on Ian Nairn, by Jonathan Meades, the C20 Society asks the authors of [...] Read more here...

Post war listing controversy
01 February, 2010

New Government decision to be disputed.The latest overturn by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) of English Heritage’s advice to list a major post war building further fuels the controversy over ministerial involvement in [...] Read more here...

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  • Battersea Power Station - A casework perspective - September 2009

    As Gavin has said in his article in the Autumn C20 magazine, the battle to preserve Battersea Power Station (BPS) has been one of the Society’s longest running concerns. Whilst the building itself has steadily declined and inched ever closer to ruin, the level of both conservation activity around it and public interest over its possible futures has only grown. Read more here...

  • The Spinney, Westerfield Road, Ipswich, Suffolk - September 2009

    Set back from the road and partially screened by trees, a very particular house is “tucked away in suburban Ipswich in a bosky setting almost Californian”, as Alan Powers noted in 1992. Standing as a pavilion in the middle of its elongated wooded site from which it derives its name, The Spinney was designed between 1957 and 1959 and built between January and August 1960 by major regional architect Birkin Haward (Senior) (Ipswich, 16 October 1912 – Ipswich, 9 February 2002) for himself and his family. Read more here...

  • An invitation to pry behind closed doors... - September 2009

    Thanks to a recent grant from English Heritage, we have started an exciting new project, that we hope will appeal to members and to potential future supporters. Over the coming months, we will be adding to our website audio slideshows and podcasts that tell the inside story of some of our cases, as told by the voices of people who have been involved in designing the buildings, and those that use or live in them. Read more here...

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