Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
FX Velarde, Architect, 1955-1957 Text by Dr Jennifer M Freeman, Director of the Historic Chapels Trust Images courtesy the Historic Chapels Trust The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes was opened in May 1957 as a thanksgiving offering for the preservation...
Smithfield Poultry Market, architect T. P. Bennett and Son, engineer Ove Arup, 1961-3 Nothing special from the outside, the Smithfield Poultry Market is just a row of loading bays, but the interior, with its single, vast, shell concrete dome roof nev...
The Brunswick Centre, Marchmont Street, London, WC1 Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, 1966-71, listed Grade II Text by Stuart Tappin Patrick Hodgkinson began to develop the concept for the design of The Brunswick Centre with his study of the Loughborou...
The Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Photographs and text by Jonathan Duff There aren't many temporary buildings that last very long but this one has not only stood the test of time, it has set the highest standards for Modern movement ...
A colour filled 20th Century meditational ‘shrine’ in the heart of Sussex: Basil Spence’s Meeting House on the grounds of the University of Sussex Owing to growing secularisation, there was a noticeable shift during the 20th century, from a con...
Walter Gropius, 1925-6 Written by Martin Eilers Building work on the famous Bauhaus Building in Dessau started in 1925 and was completed in 1926, following the relocation of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau. At the same time, a short distance away, ...
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...
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