Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Designed by Robert Harvey, 1955 Built by Harvey, family and friends, 1955-57, as a family home Written by Gérard Mermoz Stonecrop was designed in 1955 by Coventry-born and Birmingham-trained architect Robert Harvey (1919-), after a frustrating inter...
Written by Jonathan Duff, Twentieth Century Society Member living in Brussels Down a quiet, leafy footpath in the Côte d’Azur hides perhaps the most modest piece of interesting architecture of any historical period and yet it was designed by one o...
Written by Adrian Maddox Black and white photograph Phil Nicholls The Tea Rooms in Museum Street is a kind of evanescent EveryCafe most notable for its refraction of two previous centuries of cafe architecture: 19C Lyons Tea House hall and 30s Milk B...
Congress House, (Trades Union Congress Memorial Building), Great Russell Street, London WC1. Architect David du R. Aberdeen, engineers Ove Arup and Partners, designed 1948, built 1953-7 Tucked into a side street in Bloomsbury, Congress House is one o...
Space House, East Grinstead, West Sussex Text by Kate Sclater with background information provided by Richard Constable of Foggo Associates (www.foggo.com) and sales information and images provided by Mike Sparks at Hamptons International. Space Hous...
Extension to the School of Architecture, Cambridge Chosen and written by artist Daniel Edwards, whose new work ‘F series’ is on show in the building this month On 11 June 1959, Le Corbusier and Henry Moore attended the inaugural opening of a new ...
Chert, 44 Castle Court, St Lawrence, Ventnor, Isle of Wight by Kate Sclater, designer/editor of the society's website The house then Built between 1967 and 1970, 'Chert' was the retirement home for two women - Miss Koo Haddock MBE and Miss Connie McD...
Coventry Cathedral, collaborations in art and architecture - Cassie Herschel-Shorland, Committee member and Hon Events Secretary Current Celebration The 40th anniversary of the consecration of the new Coventry cathedral was celebrated in May 2002. A ...
Greenwich Millennium Village, London, chosen by Sophie Johnson BA (Hons) MA (RCA) In 1999 work began on the Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV), which is located on the peninsula in North Greenwich next to the dome. The GMV will have 1377 dwellings ra...
The Silhouette Corset Factory, Market Drayton, Shropshire, chosen by David Davidson, Deputy Casework Convenor for the Society In August 2000 an unusual building was added to the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The for...
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