C20 Society
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The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Report buildings at risk to [email protected]
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Otto Saumarez Smith
Historian of shopping precincts, leisure centres, power stations, derelict landscapes, inner cities, new towns, & city centre redevelopment. @c20Society trustee
Municipal Dreams
New book 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' out in November. 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (2019) available in paperback.
Modernism in Metroland
Exploring the art deco, modernist and brutalist buildings of London’s suburbs and beyond. “A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land” out now.
This Brutal House
Brutalism, Design, Music & Stuff That I Like Contact & Poster Sales — [email protected] Book — This Brutal World @phaidon
John Grindrod
Social historian of modern places. Currently researching c20 suburban LGBTQ history. Disappointingly unserious. 🌈 Look me up on other social platforms
Join us in supporting our #crowdfunding campaign to bring to life a unique book 'A Time ⋅ A Place'. If you have a passion for mid-century architecture or a love for classic cars, this book is sure to tickle your fancy. Check out the link to learn more: buff.ly/3UtuJb8
Duncan Baker MP
Soft market test results showed that developers want to refurbish these buildings. The City wants to demolish them and build massive office blocks on this historic site. Please help by asking Michael Gove MP to call it in ASAP!
It's C20 #ArchiveFriday , so here's a 1987 poster for a presentation of designs by Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown for the new Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery.
The Grade I listed postmodern masterpiece is currently undergoing a controversial remodelling by Selldorf Architects.
🌳Opening today: Close to the Hedge - From British suburbia to Arizona, an exploration of hedges in landscape, urban and architectural photography.
📍Gareth Gardner Gallery, Deptford.
🗓️26 April - 05 May 2024
garethgardner.com/portfolio/clos…
This week we said a fond farewell to our Casework Director, Dr Clare Price (Clare Price), who's off to pastures new at the Church of England.
Here she shares some highlights and reflects on her 12 years at the Society. Thanks from all of us, Clare!
➡️c20society.org.uk/2024/04/23/goo…
We’re delighted to announce that restoration work will begin on the Leaning Woman Statue on 7th May💫 Thanks to everyone who has supported this project! We can’t wait to see this modernist sculpture restored to her former glory. #PublicArt #Hammersmith
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EVENT // Architectural life drawing class: Join C20 for an informal walk around London’s South Bank, sketching some of the most iconic examples of post-war architecture. Drawing materials provided and all artistic abilities welcome!
🗓️Sat 29 June, 10am
🎟️secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…
Fascinating. How do conservators at Yorkshire Sculpture Park keep the Henry Moore artworks in tip-top condition? 🔥
The battle for Preston Bus Station is one of C20’s greatest triumphs: Backed by a vigorous grassroots campaign, our listing applications were finally successful, resulting in a wonderful restoration and winning the World Monuments Fund Knoll Modernism Prize. Heritage activism in action. ✊🏼
📢 (Department) Store Wars: A New Hope?
Last chance for UK-based architects to enter this fantastic competition by SAVEBritainsHeritage and Architects’ Journal, seeking creative solutions for the controversial M&S Oxford Street site.
➡️Closes Wed 24 April: savebritainsheritage.org/docs/articles/…
“I’m going to miss those towers when they’re gone. So many of us will. To me, they look like home.”
The Observer on the impending closure of the UK's last coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, and the 'End of the first Industrial Revolution'.
C20's campaign continues...
Theo Crosby was the Technical Editor of Architectural Design magazine, from 1953-1962 and designed many covers for the magazine. Under its editor, Monica Pidgeon, the magazine was a consciously alternative voice to the Architectural Review. designreviewed.com/artefacts/arch… #theocrosby
📮 For #PostboxSaturday here’s a curious combo: The K4 kiosk was adapted from the K2 model, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Introduced in 1930, it combined a telephone with a stamp dispenser and post box.
Something of a failed experiment, just 50 were made and only 5 remain.
