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The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them! #C20Society
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⛔️ Today Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last coal-fired power station in Britain, shuts down: The symbolic end of the carbon age after more than 200 years. Its majestic 375ft cooling towers are the Avebury or Stonehenge of the 20th century, yet only 45 towers remain across the country,
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EVENT: Join C20 Society and curator Tess McCann for a special talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery 🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM 📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London 🎟️ Book tickets: https://t.co/Lqwa61kzs3 Theo Crosby: 100 Lives celebrates
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From uncovering global vaccine injury to testifying in Senate hearings and standing in courtrooms across the country, the McCullough Foundation shows up where others won’t — confronting captured institutions, protecting the injured, exposing false claims, and fighting for ethical
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NEWS: C20 Society has engaged in constructive dialogue with Clarion Housing regarding the heritage and maintenance of Donnybrook Quarter in Tower Hamlets (2006); a modernist housing scheme once described as ‘Marbella on Thames’ and lauded as ‘one of the most innovative housing
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It is exactly two years since C20 Society founded the Elain Harwood Memorial Fund to secure her legacy, and hosted an incredibly moving event in her honour at the Southbank Centre. We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our
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After this weekend’s stushie over the state of Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, it’s good to see the revised proposals for the former Watt Brothers department store at 119-121 Sauchiehall Street, Hope Street and Bath Street coming forward. The revised scheme for conversion to a
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Theatre at demolition risk over Raac loses listed building bid
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East Lothian Council has said it has little option but to demolish the Brunton Theatre building.
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Eastbourne Borough Council says it's "fully committed" to getting the seafront bandstand reopened next summer season, after engineers found two of its supporting colonnades were unstable. Tap below to read more:
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Engineers found supporting colonnades on Grade II listed Eastbourne Bandstand were unstable.
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BREAKING NEWS: In a moving and poignant case study for modern heritage, the government has announced that the National Covid Memorial Wall in Lambeth will be permanently preserved, less than five years after its creation. To progress the conservation of the Wall, the government
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EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure continues next week with Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the @TheBartlettUCL and an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, exploring the development and conservation of skateparks in the UK. 🗓️
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Celebrated as an iconic piece of late 20th-century design, the station has been added to England’s National Heritage List
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Celebrated as an iconic piece of late 20th-century design, the station has been added to England’s National Heritage List
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Good news Friday: A rare Grade II listed D-Day 'Whale' floating roadway has been recovered from Southampton Harbour, ahead of a restoration project. Designed by Colonel Steer Webster, the Whale roadway section and buffer pontoon was built 1943-44 as a vital component of the
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Southwark Underground Station has been listed, in recognition of its architectural and historical importance. https://t.co/004EILLMMz
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Southwark Underground Station is given Grade II listed status for its "theatrical" architecture.
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'Jewel in the crown' Tube station on Jubilee line extension gets Grade II listing https://t.co/NjSsZPgEA7
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NEWS: We’re thrilled to announce that Southwark Tube Station (MJP, 1994-99) has finally been Grade II listed, nine years after C20 first submitted a listing application and a quarter of a century after opening to the public. The Jubilee Line Extension is one of the finest
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Nothing’s hotter than Brutalism, latest: @EzraCollective, @fredagainagain1 and @ca7rielypaco jamming in Space House. From Colonel Seifert to Jazztronica in just 60 years…
It was an honour to be asked to flip this by our brother @fredagainagain1 "Beto's Horns" from @ca7rielypaco the Ezra Collective Remix out everywhere. Hope you’ve all been vibing to it since it dropped - and now you can check the video too: https://t.co/8CJZhmlDIq
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Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath! Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead. ✍🏼 https://t.co/4exheRVdZV
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Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.
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London is full of Richard Seifert buildings, sprinkled with the 20th-century architect's magic and uncompromising style; here, we explore his prolific and, at times, controversial career
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London is full of Richard Seifert buildings, sprinkled with the 20th-century architect's magic and uncompromising style; here, we explore his prolific and, at times, controversial career
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EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure continues this week with Mike Hall, partner at @FaulknerBrowns, exploring the practice’s pioneering and playful work on post-war leisure centres. 🗓️ Thu 13 Nov 2025, 6.30pm – 8pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
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C20's Cooling Towers selected by @The_ModernHouse as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design. ➡️ https://t.co/tIKO2V1a2Z
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