C20 Society collaborates on Brutalist London Map

C20 historian Elain Harwood rides the London-Surrey 100

Buildings at Risk 2015

Welcome to C20 Society’s annual Buildings at Risk list. The following have been selected as our top ten threatened buildings for 2015, and have already helped draw attention to some very worthy cases. Keeping a list like this helps us demonstrate ...

Top 10 C20 Buildings at Risk

Cliff, conservation and cows in Venice

Should we be arguing that the buildings we care about have “emotional durability”?

Happy Christmas from C20 Society (via the Smithsons…)

Balfron Tower

Laura Chan The tabula rasa caused by the Blitz allowed the London County Council (and later the Greater London Council) to embrace the ideal of concentrated living, an anti-utopian model. Over the course of the 1950s to the 1970s, modern architectur...

The un-Secret History of Nicholas Taylor … conservationist, not villain

Where are the Paul Feiler tiles on YRM buildings?

Dawson’s Heights: the ‘Italian’ hill town in Dulwich

Dawson’s Heights, an important but little-known postwar housing estate in East Dulwich, has been turned down for listing by the Secretary of State, despite a strong recommendation from English Heritage. Built in 1964-72, the striking design takes ...

Free C20 Christmas gift: five days left

Wah Fu Estate, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Housing Department architecture division (project architect, Donald P H Liao) 1965-70, by Miles Glendinning To modern architecture heritage enthusiasts in the UK, Europe or America, public housing is an aspect of the Modern Movement th...

Broadgate Listing—Who will make the decision? and other stories….

Saving London’s Modern Spaces

The Society has dealt with numerous London cases over the past few years where it has defended or tried to protect space. The space between, in front of and around buildings is usually significant for heritage assets, regardless of their date. The id...

An invitation to pry behind closed doors…

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 th...

C20 Director writes to The Guardian in response to Simon Jenkins’ article

English Heritage fails to support listing of internationally celebrated Estate