Our tour, entitled ‘Havant: Building For Change’ on 28 April 2018, was organised and researched by member Paul Underhill and led on the day by Martin Critchley, a local architect. Many buildings we saw were the results of interwar corporate pride...
This was how the American critic G E Kidder-Smith described Alton West, the development in Roehampton, SW London on the edge of Richmond Park, designed by the London County Council Architects Department in 1955-59. It has become an enduring exemplar ...
In the early 1970s, in the West Riding of Yorkshire (as it still was - just - then), three buildings went up within 12 miles and three years of each other, all the headquarters of northern building societies, and all in variants of high-brutalism. T...
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, like the other American cemeteries was laid out in 1922 – that is, before the creation of the American Battle Monuments Commission the following year – by Major George Gibbs jr, who had once worked for Frederick...
Every so often a colourful post-war mural – often deployed to liven up a drab concrete building – catches your eye. But the Chartist mural in Newport, which lines a pedestrian tunnel in the city centre, stood heads and shoulders above the...
I pass on a link to English Heritage’s latest Designation Yearbook. It has some really nice new listings in it. In the North West EH has listed William Mitchell’s Three Totems sculptural columns at Salford University – much loved by the...
Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bristol, by Ronald Weeks of the Percy Thomas Partnership, 1966-73 Text and images by Robert Proctor Set amongst the leafy stone terraces of Clifton, the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Pa...
Harlow Water Gardens, chosen by David Davidson, Deputy Casework Convenor for the Society In July 2001, members of the Society visited Harlow to look at the architecture and planning of Sir Frederick Gibberd (see C20 Newsletter autumn 2001). The event...
Anthony Hollaway, by Richard Brook The former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) campus, now part of the University of Manchester, is home to some of Manchester’s finest 1960s buildings and structures. The sculptu...
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